Dear Geetha
Many thanks for accepting my revenue-share proposal as also for
accepting RecruitGuru as your special partner
I wish to clarify that I will be happy to apply the same
revenue-share formula with HP Labs , if and when we tie-up with Zedo.com thru
our planned association with Datawind. And same with any other Advt Network as
far as serving of advts on” My Jobs “ widget is concerned
However , this arrangement will not cover following situations :
Ø Advts
displayed thru any of our widget NOT developed by HP Labs
Ø Advts
displayed on our web site ( eg: AdSense etc )
As far as upholding and enhancing the high reputation of HP Labs
is concerned , I wish to assure you that you will not find us wanting
We value and cherish your encouragement / support to our tiny
organization
Through a series of “ Jobs / Recruitment “ related widgets to be
developed jointly by our organizations , I am confident we will make “ Job
Searching “ ( by jobseekers ) and “ Resume Searching “ ( by Recruiters /
Employers ), obsolete
Eg:
A “ suitable “ job gets posted on a job portal in USA and a
Canadian jobseeker receives it on his mobile within 10 seconds !
I like to call this “ JAB – Job Alert Broadcast “
As you so rightly observed , together , we will “ enable solutions that matter to
the world “
Thanking you – and your wonderful team – once again
With regards
hemen
From: Manjunath, Geetha
(HP Labs India) [mailto:geetha.manjunath@hp.com]
Sent: Friday, November 25, 2011 7:21 PM
To: Hemen Parekh; 'siteonmobile@gmail.com'
Cc: 'shuklendu.baji@sentientsystems.net'; 'Abhinandan K'; Kailas Patil;
Manjunath, Geetha (HP Labs India)
Subject: RE: Revenue Share
Dear Heman,
First of all, we are extremely sorry for hurting your
sentiments and breaking your expectations about Hewlett Packard.. That was not
our intent.
I beleive Revathi was only exploring the options for revenue
sharing with you - in all fairness. Apologies if it came about as
'demanding'. . Actually, HP Labs is a research division (a non-profit-loss
organization) and we are not empowered to receive revenue. However, as you may
imagine, since HP is a big company, we cannot make any decisions on
'money-matters' without checking with our management. Hence, we were not
in any position to respond to your question in your email about expectations
from HP Labs earlier.... Also, we started the partnership in a
non-commercial free pilot agreement.. It is but natural that things do change
when commercial terms come in.
Having said all the above, I should say that it was a learning
experience for our team to work with partners like you on real-life problems
and enable solutions that matter to the world. Thanks very much.. Let us go
with your current proposal for being a special partner for us for having a
noble cause. We will bring in our HP business division members to
formalize this agreement.
The good news is that, use of Tasklets enables one to deliver
new versions of the content without requiring a reinstall of the Android
widget. That is , any content change (or enhancements) that you may
make on your portal can be passed onto older versions of Android widget
with some changes to our Tasklets. So, even if you bundle a version with Akash
tablet next month, any enhancements to the Job Detail that you make on the
portal in future (for example: displaying a link to the product company) will
be immediately appled to older versions of the Andrid widget as well. THis is
the power of executing Tasklets in the cloud. On the flipside, however, the
execution of every widget will always use HP servers in our datacenter.
.So, in a remote case of our project being scrapped due to funding issues, the
widget will stop working. In which case, we will propose alternate
methods to bring up the JAM widget using some resources on your website (if and
when that happens). Just thought we should share this information with you, in
case it was not discussed earlier.. Please feel free to ask for
clarifications, if needed.
Thanks again for a wonderful partnership.. We look forward to
continue working with you on this project
Trust you are already receiving newer versions of the widget from
Revathi.. :-)
Thanks
and Regards
Geetha
From: Hemen Parekh [mailto:hcp@recruitguru.com]
Sent: Friday, November 25, 2011 9:56 AM
To: 'siteonmobile@gmail.com'; Manjunath, Geetha (HP Labs India)
Cc: 'shuklendu.baji@sentientsystems.net'; 'Abhinandan K'; Kailas Patil
Subject: Revenue Share
Revathi
Your
call yesterday, demanding that I share with HP Labs, 55 % of my revenue from
InMobi Network , came as a complete shock !
Had
I known this a few months back , before your team started development work on
the widget , I would have spared you the trouble
In
fact , on my own , I raised this issue on Oct 25, when I forwarded to you the
revenue – share proposal received from Suneet Tuli ( Datawind )
In
that email, I wrote :
“ However,
before I confirm to Suneet, the revenue-sharing basis proposed by him, I must know
the expectations of HP Labs – India “
A couple of days thereafter, we ( yourself , Geetha Manjunath
and myself ) had a conference call when Geetha outlined the 2 – stage
development of the widget , including her suggestion on how we can “ integrate
“ InMobi Advts on our own thru our web site
This discussion was confirmed by her the very next day thru
email
Even then , there was NO
MENTION of any kind re sharing revenue with HP Labs !
All along , my impression ( reinforced thru a series of email
exchanges between us over the last 3 months , since your team started work on
the widget ) was :
By placing SiteOnMobile logo on the very first screen of the
widget, HP Labs wishes to leverage this medium to publicize / promote its “
Tasklet “ technology amongst millions of jobseekers. This is the “ mileage “
that HP Labs wishes to derive out of its developmental effort
But all of this is “ water under the bridge “
The ground reality is that I am in no position to accede to your demand , in
light of the enormous effort that my team has put in over the years to develop
our web site and the marketing effort that we would need to put in , in the
months and years to come .
Having said this , I would still like to continue my association with HP Labs , if
your management would accept the following revenue – sharing formula :
Ø Year
1 ……….. 10 % of
what I earn from InMobi
Ø Year
2 ………
5
% “
Ø Year
3 onwards………..Nil %
I earnestly request you to convince your top management to
accept this formula
magnanimously , considering :
Ø Any
earnings that you might receive would be insignificant in relation to HP’s
current revenue of $ 120 billions
Ø SiteOnMobile’s
goal of “ giving internet
experience on mobile phones to millions without access to broadband “
If , for some reasons , you cannot , I still wish to place on
record , my deep appreciation of the tremendous co-operation and support that
all of you have given to my mission of ,
“ Jobs
for All = Peace on Earth “
With regards
hemen
