Bhavya Chowdhury 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
The entrepreneur talks are usually tagged My Story sessions at TiE. Vinay started off by professing that it is our Story – so we heard about how he and his 3 partners together have built this company. Vinay’s dad was a marketing manager at Cummins India Ltd. Vinay has done his Compnter Science engineering. His … Read more
Vijay joined Xytel after his 7 year stint at Vigyan Ashram. Xytel had a JV with Powergas for making pilot plants. The company got taken over by a competitor in 2005, which is when Vijay decided to leave – and set up Texol with a few of his old colleagues. He had a house in … Read more
Venkatesh is a finance guy. He spent the first 15 years of his life as a bean counter in a financial services compaby – from 1989 to 2004. From then on the journey has been from seagull to eagle. What I liked about his talk was that he would keep on signaling the audience to … Read more
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