BusinessWeek Asks “How was your business idea hatched?”
OfficeDrop founder Prasad Thammineni talks about the moment when he came up with the idea behind OfficeDrop’s document scanning and document management service with BusinessWeek reporter, Amy Barett. Amy’s article, “Beyond Eureka,” lays out five steps for starting a business from interviews with 20 serial entrepreneurs. Amy suggests setting parameters for the business, brainstorming potential ideas, picking a winner idea, assessing feasibility, and testing a prototype.
Prasad explains how he was overwhelmed with paper during his MBA as Wharton and created his own system to scan, store and shred it. He realized that there was demand for this sort of a service when other students him to borrow his system. Realizing he was onto something, he interviewed a number of small businesses are discovered that there was a market for digitizing and managing small business’ paper. Thus, OfficeDrop’s document management and document scanning service was born!
A wide variety of companies are profiled - everything from clothing companies for people with limited mobility to an online service for creating computer games - including Cooper Martin, Sensible Garden, Sharendipity and Weardrobe.
