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Homeowners are increasingly looking to technology for home security solutions, to save on heating and cooling costs and even to help them cook the perfect steak.
In fact, 46% of consumers recently surveyed by ERA Real Estate and HGTV said it was important for their current or next home to have smart home technology. And 51% of the 2,437 consumers polled said theyd consider installing smart home technology in their home to make it more appealing to future buyers.
Smart home technology often refers to a home that is connected using the Internet. Whether we are inside the house or 1,000 miles away from the house, we can control and monitor it, said Dave Pedigo, senior director of learning and emerging technologies for the Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association.
A big reason smart home technology is becoming more mainstream: Theyre making things so user friendly, so its easy for people to adopt the technology, said Jon Ellen Snyder, a Montana real-estate broker with ERA Landmark in the Bozeman/Livingston area. It is also becoming more affordable, which helps in bringing it to the masses, she said.
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Through their startup platform GrowthStory, Meena and Krishnan Ganesh are launching a slew of ventures in three months. Though there is potential, their businesses are fraught with challenges too
Bangalore-based entrepreneurs Krishnan and Meena Ganesh
rishnan and Meena Ganesh, the Bangalore-based entrepreneurial couple, have bet big on a simple mantra: Do what the competition is doing, but do it perfectly. And that is the foundation of their company, GrowthStory, one of Indias largest startup platforms.
The next few months will be crucial as they plan to launch four new ventures and expand their two-month-old food services businessall under the GrowthStory umbrella. But their challenge lies in the first half of their mantra: Do what the competition is doing. By entering markets that are relatively crowded, the husband-and-wife team cannot afford any misstep. They are developing app-driven startups that operate in areas such as technology education, home improvement and handyman services, food and catering and cloud-based software, all of which already have several players jostling for consumer attention. But they believe that they have what it takes to grab a large chunk of the market-share.
They are not only gearing up to take on local (and later national) competition with their food and on-demand home services businesses, but they are also setting the stage so that their three tech startups can compete with established international players in mature markets in the US and Australia. But GrowthStory, set up in 2011, can take comfort from the second half of the power couples mantra: Do it perfectly.
We want to operate in a space where we will have an unfair advantage. Today, if you want to build a billion-dollar business, you need an unfair advantage, Krishnan tells Forbes India. We are trying to create each venture under GrowthStory as a billion-dollar company in the next five to seven years. And this requires rapid scaling up, capital, strong network and corporate governance. Each business should be able to bring disruption in the space it operates by using technology and the internet, which are our core competencies.
Meena and Krishnan are aiming high, say those who have been tracking their business model. He (Krishnan) is certainly pursuing a super-ambitious model of taking multiple concurrent bets and promising to work hard to accelerate his ventures, to connect them to talent, ramp up early customers, and raise good-sized doses of early funds at attractive valuations, says Ravi Gururaj, chairman, Nasscom Product Council, and co-founder of HBS Alumni Angels (India chapter).
However, Gururaj feels that GrowthStory has all the elements of a new generation venture capital (VC) firm, including in-house seed cash, proven hands on entrepreneurial expertise, common operational capabilities and an inherent to-go-big-fast approach. Its an audacious way of doing business, one which only the Ganeshes seem uniquely qualified to drive at hard, he says.
The results of GrowthStorys ambitious incubation plans will be visible only after three to four years. In the early stage investment segment, a portfolio is a mixed bag when it comes to the growth and sustenance of its firms. The rule of thumb is that a third of an early-stage portfolio is expected to fare very well, one-third is expected to be average-performing, and the remaining usually fail or die. Incubation is a high-risk and high-reward game. In no portfolio can every firm become a $1 billion business, says Mukul Singhal, vice president of SAIF Partners, a sector agnostic investment firm. When I do a seed stage deal, I know that 75 percent firms will fail. Its a law of nature that cannot be defied.
But Krishnan and Meena aim to break this rule. They have considerable experience in the entrepreneurial space, having built and successfully exited three startups: Customer Asset (a call centre and offshoring services company) which they sold to ICICI Bank for $20 million in 2003, Marketics Technologies (a data analytics firm) acquired by BPO company WNS in 2007 for $63.5 million, and online education venture TutorVista. The couple made headlines in 2011 when they sold TutorVista to the UK-based Pearson Group for $213 million.
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You can generally classify gutter guards into one of three categories: screens, inserts or reverse curves.
Screens are the most common and work by covering your existing gutter with a membrane that allows water through, but blocks debris. The screens can be simple, like the screens that cover your windows, or complex with several layers of fine mesh to block even the smallest of particles. Like all filters, screens will need to be removed and cleaned from time to time.
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