Positioning IM

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

School Land

The trustees of an upcoming school in Nasik have been looking for land to set up the school. The proposed school will be affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education based out of Delhi. The board has a requirement of 2 acres of land. The budgets are very limited – and the strategy for … Read more

PlugHR

I attended a session by Prashant Bhaskar, who runs a company called PlugHR at The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) for short. Here is an excerpt from the invite – Prashant Bhaskar started the plugHR idea after market research suggested that it won’t take off.“entrepreneurs want challenges, it couldn’t be more challenging than that”, he says. “After … Read more

Organ Donor

You are the head of one of the branches of a hospital chain. A 42 year old patient is bought in. He was on his way to drop his wife to her workplace when his motorcycle collides with that of a Police Sub Inspector. Patient has had internal head injuries. When he is got to … Read more

Nevis Networks

Started in 2003. Radha Shelat and Raghu Iyer are the directors. Work in the area of LAN security. Started by making chip sets using embedded software. In those times the concept of security was limited to anti viruses – and Nevis was ahead of its times. It was a 40 person maverick product company – … Read more