Venkatraman Srinivasan did his graduation in Math from Chennai, where he was the university gold medallist. He followed that up with a CA, again getting a gold medal. He then joined his dad’s practice. His dad was into tax consulting – and his area of expertise was in tax appeals. Not only did this require … Read more

My first interaction with Vipul Vadhiya was when he was in his final year of engineering at VIT. He joined the Bulls Eye CAT program. I soon realised that our Gujarati friend was probably earning more than I was. After college got over, Vipul, and his friends, Amit and Shiv, would take Science classes in … Read more

Sukhpreet Singh Sial is Chetan Pal’s friend. Both have their factories in the Ramtekdi area. Roll Mania has its office about 200 m from our home on SB road.  Prasanna and Yours Truly dropped in for a chat on Sat, 9-Nov-24. My first roll was consumed during my Calcutta days – I think my favourite … Read more

Raja Manickam grew up in the township of BHEL, Trichy. As a kid, he was inspired by RC Bhargava, who was then the Director of BHEL Trichy, and later on went to become the founding Managing Director of Maruti Udyog. Raja loved physics in his school days. Did well in JEE and went to IIT … Read more

Number of words: 929 Five years ago, Kevin Carey predicted the end of college as we know it. He argued that colleges operate under an incentive structure and institutional logic that is unsustainable. The quest for prestige and the pressure to expand programs, services and research drive the cost of higher education ever higher, while … 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