Wednesday, September 16, 2009

My Xperience With Opening New Business

Today I am writing about How we got the idea and all those stuff about opening the business and also the after consequences of starting the Business.

Well opening a business for first time is the toughest thing I ever faced (I think even more tougher than passing those semester exams). To start with I along with my brother opened the Business of Website Development and Training at Mansarover Complex. Eventhough its tough to open a new business but really its very interesting stuff happening around me. When you are paying something around 15K per month as Rent, you have to fasten things around you. And I think that is the only reason development of a website which earlier took me some 1 Month to complete (while visiting the colleges regularly), Now takes just about 1 Week (Ya, certainly without visiting the college).

When I had just enrolled to my engineering, I always thought to build the Website of my college. But some books and my brother advice shifted me to do something for myself rather than doing for someone else. And its really a fact that when you do something for yourself and do it brilliantly, people automatically approaches you to do something for them ( and even then they didn't hesitate to pay for it ). After doing some great stuff in the Web Development field which ofcourse is a booming industry and then opening my own company. People start to look at you. And really thats the case with me. Something in around last 2 months, I have met with Directors and principle of 2-3 colleges like my own Oriental, LNCT, Corporate etc. Dean and the TPO of my college called me to design the website of some conference on Knowledge Management that is going to take place in Nov, 2009, earlier the things which like designing website for college looks good for me, now I don't even like doing all that stuff. And "Do little, but do something for yourself" is really the stimulus mantra for me which led to opening of our Company.

Talking something about our Company, Me and my brother always have though to open a company. But the plans grounded only 4 days before my 4th Semester exams. We have funds and fixed a space on Rent at Mansarover (And ofcourse there were my Xams too). I must say I am really lucky, that my xams postponed for some 10 days at the time, I deadly needed it. That reminds me of the book I read "The Alchemist" which says "When you really want to do something, the Universe conspires in helping you to achieve it". ( Well I must also say some thanks to our University, which ofcourse helps its students as much as the Universe does ).

So in that time We settled our Company and Now currently it is in 3rd Month and I must say running better than we expected earlier. We did some 4 Website Development Projects in past 2 months and developed some Websites involving students, We have trained some 25 students in PHP ( Which I think is the great language, I ever learned. And I owe my little success to PHP too) ever since. When I started learning PHP, no one knews about the PHP (but it started making me few bucks since start) , its such a powerful language that in just 1 year lots of people started to know about it. And I must say every one must learn something that is not known by everybody and since the language is not known by everyone, Unlike .NET it is less competitive and the advantages of doing something in Web Development field is immense.

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