Entrepreneur
Psidium Mobile Marketing
Feb 2004 - Mar 2006 (2 years 2 months)
One day, with a group of friends, we asked ourselves: "Isn't there a way we could get free SMS on our phones?"
This question led to long hour sessions of brainstorming that gave us a wonderful idea. We could advertise on Mobiles. In fact, we could do a Mobile Marketing Business. It was the year 2004 and we were way ahead of our curve, especially coming from Colombia where the market penetration was just under 15%.
We were young (18 years old) and very enthusiastic about the idea, so we made our business plan about Mobile Marketing through sponsored SMS's and put it to compete in the biggest competition of Business Plans in Colombia. Despite the fact that the majority of competitors where MBA's or Doctorate students, we won the first plac