Lost deal – or maybe not

4-Sep-08Went through the document – does look like he’s done some good thinking about the idea. Talked to a few friends (potential customers) about what they would want in a service serving this end.Renegotiating the catering deal for this sunday, gave an alternate solution and price quote. 3-Sep-08Pinaki pinged out of the blue and we

Missed updates

I think I did not mention that I made a couple of changes to the website. Well, they weren’t overly obvious – the easiest one to notice was that I increased the size of the main frame. And, I added the Google Analytics tracking code in every page of the website, so that I can

After D-Day

Well, i’m alive – so it definitely wasn’t Normandy.Yeah, I know – bad joke.Anyway, D-Day – today was our first order. Technically not the first order for the company, as it’s been around since 3 years now, first order after I joined. This was the party order for Meghna. Well, the start wasn’t so good

Not many updates.

Nothing special to write about. Haven’t made much progress with my ideas for the website, although have been trying hard (off and on). The thing that really has vexed me is that the appearance is different across browsers. Now, how stupid is that? I mean here’s a standard for coding (HTML) which everybody accepts, and

Reading update

Jul 30 – Me’s working on getting contracts in the IT company in the compound where we already have one order now, only fishing right now.Murthy’s got one more confirmed order – a revenue of around 50k every month – great news for today!

Reading update

29 Jul –Meghna asked if we’d cater for her party, talked to Murthy and answered in the affirmative. Her party is on the 23rd of next month, north indian cuisine and she’d like chole bhature also as a part of the meal. We anyway were planning to start officially after the 21st, so this should

Closer to the goal

Jul 17 – Well, the alleged business plan looks more like a sales pitch, but in his email he didn’t say it was a b-plan. I think the best quality I can bring to the team would be sophistication, among others. Also, since it will be a simple partnership, there aren’t too many legal hurdles

Slight changes in the plan

Hmm don’t have the patience to list everything with dates. But here’s what has happened recently –I finally did get around to calling Murthy, one of the persons who replied to my Ryze post. And then got to know that he’d started this same/similar business in 2005 but diversified because there weren’t too many takers.