Bhavya Chowdhury My friend Amit Patil introduced me to the Mumbai based Vijay Kanuru. Vijay has done his PhD at Cambridge, in battery related nano technology. He followed it up with a postDoc at Cornell. Vijay is a rare breed – in the sense after this over exposure to academics, he jumped into the rough and tough … Read more
Smita is a good friend who is only 55 but has the fitness of a hyperactive 5 year old. Earlier was operations head at Abs, one of the largest chain of gyms in Pune. ICC on SB Road and Magarpatta are the biggest centers for Abs. Annual individual collections are upwards of 3 cr from … Read more
Most of us when asked to choose a role model in history would choose Shivaji Maharaj. If all of us become Shivajis, then who is going to be the Maval? Doctors need to remember that they are part of a team. And they need to ask for help in managing patients better. For example: Get … Read more
Sunetra Roday was the chief guest at the Republic Day function in Jan 20. Sunetra ji’s main talk was on eating healthy and eating safe. In her story she mentioned Chintu, Pintu and Mintu. Chintu brings poli bhaji in his dabba. Pintu brings Varan Bhat, but Mintu brings Maggi noodles, wafers, chocolate, cream rolls. Mintu … Read more
Sujit and Amit co-founders were quite happy that their company, IM had been selected for a Microsoft Accelerator program. What added to their happiness was an angel investment by a German friend of 100,000 USD. But with the investment came pressure of delivering revenue growth. They called in an external consultant to answer some questions … Read more
One night, 18-year-old Ritesh Agarwal was locked out of his apartment in Delhi. It was an unfortunate minor incident that was to change his life. Forced to check into a hotel he found himself in a situation he had already experienced several times while travelling in India. “The receptionist was sleeping,” he says. “Sockets did … Read more
Chetan Pal is an IIT Roorkee and IIM C alumnus, who has been taking an entrepreneurship case study every year. He was with us last week. Fortunately no one from the Bulls Eye team was available at the center – and Chetan ended up doing some kaizens which are worth sharing with you. He told … Read more
Yatin grew up in the small town of Kurudwadi, Solapur. His dad used to run a watch repair shop over there. After doing his schooling at Kurudwadi, Yatin shifted for Junior College to Solapur. He surprised the family by flunking his grade 12 exams. His math score was 14/100. Dad decided that his son needed … Read more
Vishal Purohit was a Bulls Eye student in 1997. He is a BE in Comp. Sc from DY Patil College, Pune. He is now Chief Executive Officer at Wooqer. He is also an Angel Investor. He was the founder of GarageAgain Ventures and CoreObjects prior to bootstrapping Wooqer. Wooqer is a California registered company with … Read more
Vinayak Joglekar was employed as an EDP (Electronic Data Processing) manager at Alfa Laval in the eighties, when he caught the entrepreneurial bug. Being a risk-averse manager from IIM Cal, he applied his first lean principle, by not quitting his job, but hiring an employee at Rs. 500 per month, to find out if people … Read more
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