BPOs might finally start eyeing Belgaum
4:35 PM Posted by ukmad
Tier 4 would be towns like Nanded, Davangere, and Belgaum; – again substantial locally educated population who migrate to larger urban centers for jobs. The resource pool is not as large as Tier 3 but can be effectively harnessed to the "100-seater" concept, which refers to the size of low-cost yet economically sound rural BPO. —Deepak J. Patel is chief executive officer of Aditya Birla Minacs, a business solutions company. This is part of the article written by Deepak Patel for The Wall Street Journal.
Mr.Satish Kumar, a Belgaumite who is in Dubai and member of ITBelagumgroup has already mailed Aditya Birla Minacs on 18th August 2009.
And in reply to the letter Deepak J. Patel stated,
“Thanks for your note. We will certainly evaluate. We do have a focused plan to look at such towns for our India Domestic business needs. Our team will take this evaluation forward to align with our business needs.
Best regards,
Deepak J. Patel “
“If India lived in her villages at independence, 62 years on - a vast young population lives in these sorts of towns.”
Economic development grows once infrastructure growth picks up speed. And going forward that's precisely where the IT and BPO industry can play the role of a fulcrum, with our increasingly younger population as the lever. We need to embrace the growth taking place in the so-called Tier 3 and 4 towns.
The article mentions India’s journey and development and what opportunities lay ahead. He emphasizes on Strategy to attract investment and infrastructure, broader availability of skills& growing demand for telecom, retail, automotive and financial services. All governments are giving subsidy for growth in tier 3 and 4 cities. Karnataka has announced government grants for rural BPOs in the form of capital investment subsidy up to 2 million rupees per 100 seater, financial support of 10,000 rupees and 5,000 rupees per employee respectively for manpower training, and as subsidy for rentals and internet connectivity.
All the points mentioned in the article fit perfectly for Belgaum; from broader availability of skills to growing demand for telecom, retail, automotive and financial services.
Deepak J. Patel is chief executive officer of Aditya Birla Minacs is looking at Belgaum or at least the city is getting a mention on the list is worth many a thing. Now it’s up to the local representatives and government to get the IT-BPO companies to Belgaum.
At last it may be time for some big IT-BPO companies to set up shop here.
ITBELGAUM group instigates growth of IT in Belgaum
1:34 PM Posted by ukmad
ITBelgaum premier conglomerate of the IT-BPO companies in Belgaum will launch themselves by holding a technical workshop and seminar in GIT.
ITBelgaum was mainly formed for interaction between all IT and ITeS companies and the result have been overwhelming. Many companies have now partnered with each other for hosting, web designing, server maintenance etc. which they were not aware of till this conglomerate was formed.
The Event:
IT-BELGAUM TECHNICAL SEMINAR AND WORKSHOP
Date: Saturday, 29th August 2009
Time: 10am to 1pm
Venue: GIT Auditorium
Introduction - R K Patil, Vayavya Labs Pvt. Ltd.
Topic 1: Embedded Systems: Timing and Optimization – Dr.Ameet Patil, Spundhan Softwares
although embedded systems is not a buzz word anymore, little is known about software timing and code optimization for such systems. This presentation will enlighten the audience on software timing issues and code optimization techniques pertaining to embedded systems.
Topic 2: Open Source Tools in an Enterprise: LAMP - Swapneel Patnekar, eth1 Network Solutions
IT-BELGAUM was set up in July 2009, at Belgaum to facilitate business and trade in software and services and to encourage advancement of research in software technology. It is a not-for-profit organization.
How it started-
AllAboutBelgaum.com, this very website spurted this idea of collaboration between the various IT & ITeS companies based in Belgaum. The Idea was well picked up by all companies and the result is the formation of theITBelgaum group.
Aims and Objectives
IT-BELGAUM aims to drive the overall growth of the global off shoring market by taking up the role of a strategic advisor to the industry. Our goals include:
• Accelerating trade development efforts
• Improving talent supply
• Strengthening local infrastructure
• Building partnerships and driving operational excellence.
• Boost the process of Innovation
• IT workforce development
• Enhanced cyber security.
IT-BELGAUM’s seven fold strategy towards achieving these objectives:
1. Strengthen the brand equity of India as a premier global sourcing destination.
2. Partner with the Central and State Governments of India in formulating IT policies and legislation. Partner with global stakeholders for promoting the industry in global markets.
3. Strive for a thought leadership position and deliver world-class research and strategic inputs for the industry and its stakeholders.
4. Expand the quantity and quality of the talent pool in India.
5. Continuous engagement with all member companies and stakeholders to devise strategies to achieve shared aspirations for the industry and the country.
6. Encourage and facilitate members to uphold world class quality and service delivery standards
7. Aim to uphold Intellectual Property Rights
IT-BELGAUM Membership
ITBelgaum welcomes as members, companies and firms that are incorporated and/or are registered in Belgaum, which have made and will make positive contributions to the IT industry in Belgaum and globally.
What is IT Belgaum?
IT-Belgaum group is cluster of companies engaged in Information technology (IT) and IT enabled services (ITeS) which are based in Belgaum.
The IT sector in Belgaum is very encouraging. Considering the human talent around and the blooming companies which have chosen Belgaum as their Playground, it was thought of collectively coming on a single platform where all the IT companies could share their knowledge with the community and also collaborate with each other. Human resources management, taxation problems, internet connectivity, grooming the upcoming talent in colleges are some of the points IT-Belgaum group will emphasize on.
This site aims to be the one stop site for your entire search or queries related to IT & ITeS firms in Belgaum, IT jobs. The site also serves a as a medium where experts will attempt to answer to your queries in the domain of IT & IteS. We also plan to enable all employees of the group companies to use this site as a platform to share their ideas and gain knowledge by collaborating. By coming together, our voices could be heard by the government also.
In nutshell IT-Belgaum group is a place to Meet, Share & Explore.
ignITing Belgaum Pushing IT Further
9:27 PM Posted by ukmad
Belgaum IT group aims high
This Site had taken an initiative to get all the IT and 
IT related companies to come under a forum so that they could collectively grow. The first meeting of the group was held on May 23 where in the basis, main aims were discussed, and the second meet was held today at Pop in restaurant and even when it was raining very heavily the members came in, which shows a wow made by them towards growth of IT in Belgaum.
The efforts have paid off. City based DotCord IT Solutions a web designing company has now tied up with eTH1 network solutions, which also is a Belgaum based web hosting company for its new site for Belgaumites. The said site will be launched in early next month and it will be a very effective site for networking with other Belgaumites. When this blog spoke to Sandeep Hegde MD of DotCord IT Solutions he said, they had the website plan long time ago and were supposed to host it else where, but with the IT group meet, they decided to host the site with eTH1 network solutions which is also based in Belgaum and both are first time entrepreneurs. He also added this site is unique combination of collective growth as the site is also for Belgaumites. It is like For Belgaum, By Belgaum and To Belgaum.
In today’s meet the website structure for the Belgaum IT group was discussed and finalized and web site should be ready by next month. DotCord IT Solutions has taken the lead to design the site. The website will contain all information on the various companies in Belgaum and will contain a forum for all the employees of the different companies to come and exchange thoughts and collaborate. In addition, a discussion was arrived on to a specific date on which the group will meet monthly.
The group also decided to take seminars and workshops at different colleges on various topics so that the next generation knows about the companies in Belgaum and students nurtured with the current requirements of the companies.
The second meeting was another step forward for the IT in Belgaum. Many would laugh at this and might say what will these people achieve in the end. However, we are all optimistic of the future and victorious when people from Belgaum have started to collaborate with each other, which show that there are opportunities, we need to cater to them.
- New Emerging technologies being discussed
Raju Patil of Caller Info id, Tushar Patil of BTPi who were attending for the first time were happy to be a part of the group. Others present were Harshad & Ammet Patil of Uproot Labs, Sandeep Hegde of Dot Cord, Aadil of Leading Minds, Vishal Kulkarni of 3i Global, R K Patil of Vavya Labs and Uday from AllAboutBelgaum.com.
Posting Classifieds made easy by Belgaum guys uproot labs
1:03 PM Posted by ukmad
The most awaited stable release of the Indian Classifieds site is finally up.
Visit: http://uproot.in. The site offers users to post their advertisements absolutely FREE of cost. The site caters to almost all cities in India and there are numerous categories one can post an Ad into. The best part it’s made by two guys from Belgaum.
Please point your browsers to http://uproot.in
| AllAboutBelgaum.com partners with Uproot and all ads posted for Belgaum can be seen in one page, http://allaboutbelgaum.com/classifieds/ |
What is UpRoot.in ?
A simple website to post classifieds online for free, it has been exclusively created for Indian users, and covers all districts in the country (600+).
Everything about the site is geared towards simplicity, including:
· the look — very few graphics + dynamic interface
· The operational model — zero intervention between seller and buyer is our policy.
What is it not?
While making the site, one path we did not tread (nor intend to tread) is social networking. They will add more features in the future to facilitate collaboration between groups of users. But they don’t expect it to become a core feature of the site. The reason is — keeping things simple for everyone, in particular the average or internet newbie’s.
Uproot.in is the first baby from the Uproot Labs, Belgaum. Uproot labs are a gargantuan team of two Harshad Joglekar & Dr Ameet Patil who know each other from college days. After a “long time, no see” span of 10 years, they met over Orkut, and found that they both had an urge to start a company from our hometown, Belgaum. Dr.Ameet Patil also runs his own startup Spundhan which has already been featured on this blog.
Uproot has been designed by both as they have major experience in system software, particularly embedded system software. They are trying something new; web services. They shoulder equal responsibilities. They both design, code, make decisions with equal flair.
They chose Belgaum as it has its own set of advantages & disadvantages. But the advantages are now out marking the latter with the advent of internet.
They chose to develop their own web framework; a tailor made suit that fits needs, and is optimized for performance.
They also plan to have key partnerships with other sites for the content and AllAboutBelgaum was the first one to approach them in this regard and a feed only for Belgaum is here.
So all the ads you post under Belgaum will be coming up there automatically. (Collective growth of It & ITeS services in Belgaum)
In the longer term they aim to monetize from premium Ads on the website. The core functionality will always remain free.
Here are some of the features of UpRoot.in
Categories
While posting an Ad the user is required to select the most relevant category. This in turn helps people to quickly and easily find what they need. Care has been taken to include the most common categories the users will encounter in their daily life.
Ads that offer and Ads that want
Broadly speaking, every Ad has either something to offer to the viewer, or wants something from the viewer. It is specified during the creation of an Ad, and helps viewers to quickly find items that offer or want something from them.
Specifying the location
Viewers can choose to filter their Ads depending on the physical location. One can choose a specific city, a state or all locations in India.
Privacy
They are very concerned about your privacy and take it very seriously.
There is an in-built mechanism to contact users, without needing to divulge either the seller’s or buyer’s contact information until each party voluntarily chooses to do so.
Membership
Users/Visitors to the site can view/search all advertisements without requiring to login. However, to protect your privacy, you required you register as a member in order to post a new or respond to an Ad.
Membership on Uproot.in is absolutely FREE, and requires just a confirmation of your email address. You can choose your own profile-name aka avatar.
If readers are interested in working on exciting embedded and web technologies, they can send their profile description / resume to jobs@uproot.co.in
This is another paradigm of what two minds from a same city can do together professionally. Here it is not friendship but professional caliber and an urge to do something of your own. Both Harshad & Dr.Ameet have worked in different companies who paid them handsomely, but they always wanted to be their own BOSS.
All the best to the Duo.
Coming back to Belgaum a dream of many
4:20 PM Posted by ukmad
Author- R K Patil of Vayavya Labs Belgaum
I read a couple of comments on this blog where people are looking to come back to Belgaum and work in companies located here. I would like to share some of my thoughts to the readers and prospects about ground realities.
While it may be nostalgic to get back to Belgaum, one has to understand and be prepared to work with smaller companies with not really so much name & fame and cash reserves to pay metro-like salaries. One should look at coming to Belgaum to make a career and if possible be a partner/core team member of the companies located here. Aim to grow with the company you are associated with and hitch your commercial returns with the success of company!
There is myth in IT domain as to what really start-up means. I am sure not many people will really experience a real start up life, especially in India.
All those overseas start-ups which come to India with fat salaries, bounty ESOPs, state of the art work place etc are not really "start-ups" In fact they are "started-up" in US or other place and are coming to other geographies for pure business reasons!
Things are however changing, there are home grown companies entirely based in India and then looking at Global market/presence. May be you will get to experience a real 'start-up' life in such firms at a very early stage of formation.
The situation is not any different either in other fields. If you wish to come here and settle be prepared for lesser reward. Cost of living in Belgaum and the metros are unquestionably lower and hence the lower remuneration package might also end up you saving the same amount as you did earlier. But there are limitations to this which one should understand. Belgaum is place which moves on its own pace, there is no hurry as in Mumbai or Pune.
So for all those looking at Belgaum or perhaps North Karnataka as a destination to move please make up your mind and will. While the transition will be challenging it will be rewarding in the long run. The journey itself is an experience!
Mabonsoft Technologies developing customized applications from Belgaum
5:26 PM Posted by ukmad
Mabonsoft is one of the youngest upcoming IT service providers in today's competitive global economy. Mabonsoft was established in the year 2008 and started as a virtually based IT solutions provider. They are expertise in developing customized applications. Mabonsoft has embarked to stand for trust, innovation and providing intelligent software. Passionately providing clients web-strategy, design, development, internet-marketing, SEO services to achieve remarkable services.
| What Mabonsoft offers | Their Focus |
| · Web Solutions · Software Solutions · Web 2.0 · ecommerce Solutions · Quality Assurance · Software Testing · Graphic Design · Web Services | · Banking and Finance Business Solutions · Social Networking with Web2.0 · Application Porting · Logistics · Hotel Management · Retail Market · Office Automation · School Management |
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They are a team of passionate, talented, dedicated folks who love working together with their clients to plan, design, build, and market web sites and products we’re all proud of.
They are a team of buddies who know each other since academic years and based from different regions of India. Establishing Mabonsoft wasn’t really a sudden strike but the dream was being built slowly in steps throughout their academic years.
When Web2.0 was changing everything, they had an opportunity to talk with people who have been into Finance & Banking for several years and they wanted to evolve their business and maintain a relationship with their clients. They were happy with strategies and the idea of bringing web to their business which eventually lead them to establish a Virtual IT firm in 2008 where: Quality , Creativity & innovation is a norm. Commitment & hard work are rewarded.
Vision
“Mabonsoft envisions being an apex class of IT solutions provider and making the availability with the gamut of customized applications to suffice the customer needs delightfully”
Mission
“Mabonsoft envisions being an Apex class of IT solutions provider and making the availability with the gamut of customized applications to suffice the customer needs delightfully”
Mabonsoft shares a common goal and vision which inspires them to provide and deliver an extra-ordinary and delightful customer service with a blend of elite people unleashing the talent, knowledge, experience and competence which gives a synergetic effort to work with a camaraderie to achieve the objective.
What they do?
They believe in continually challenging industry norms to deliver better value for our clients. Their industry-leading approach helps teams discover big ideas that can make a real impact, and then transform those ideas into fast, tangible results. They continue to evolve our approach, redefining the standards for best practices to deliver the critical elements needed to ensure success.
Mabonsoft approach towards software development helps discipline and rigor to reduce overall costs, increase speed to market and ensure long-term maintainability and change resilience.
They are into
Application development:
· Windows/Linux Based Applications
· Implementation of Open Source
· Application Customization
Website Development:
· Computer Graphics, Design, Multimedia
· Implementation of Open Source
· Application Customization
Internet Marketing Services:
· Consulting
· Internet advertising
· Web site attendance statistics
· Search engine optimisation(SEO)
Technical support:
· Consulting
· Domain names
· Web hosting
· E-mail
Other services:
· Integration of Content Management Systems
· Banner advertising
· Programming
· E-mail
They have already worked on the following:
· GPS Management System
· Web based backend Applications for financial institutes.
· Loan Management System
· School Management System
· Web 2.0 Address Book
· Resort Management System
School Management
A complete school management web application to enhance your school management process for a successful, quality and ease that becomes the driving force to a flawless system in the education sector.
Technologies used: ASP.NET, Ajax, XHTML, CSS
Ultimate Address Book with Web2.0
Build and synchronize your address book from various contact sources. Bring all your contacts to one place. Organize your contacts with the “taxonomy” feature. Search, manage groups, add notes to each contact, and share business cards with users.
Technologies used: Ruby on Rails, Ajax, XHTML, CSS
Database: MySQL
http://www.mabonsoft.com
Belgaum plays a new host
4:40 PM Posted by ukmad
Ever wondered what it takes to deploy and manage a server on the Web? For the technical savvy they are Server, Bandwidth, Redundant Backup, So Belgaumites, now you have a new host locally to host your websites from Belgaum which will be all over the world and Swapneel has made Belgaum proud by being the first one to host websites from Belgaum. For a quote on a web hosting account, contact:
Redundant Power supply, Server Management, Server Management skills
etc to name a few.
In nonprofessional terms, it takes exceptional manpower round the clock and stellar infrastructure. eth1 Network Solutions a company in Belgaum is
rendering remote server management in Linux/Unix have designed and
deployed a web hosting venture for hosting websites for the people of
Belgaum.
The server is a IBM e335 make with 2.0GHz processor, 250G hard drive
and 2G of RAM and runs the latest version of Apache (web server software), PHP and MySQL. Runs a bare minimum required for a production server and every piece of software used is compiled from source (Linux jargon -;)) for extracting every drop of performance from it.
The server is powered by two upstream Internet connections providing
redundancy. Backup of data happens locally over the network and using
rsync to an offshore server.
They currently provide custom plans depending on ones requirements.
Swapneel Patnekar, the founder of eth1 network Solutions says, "The
infrastructure we have placed is exactly the thing to host Web 2.0
websites driven by PHP/MySQL. Plus with 24/7 support, issues commonly
found in Web Hosting companies will be resolved in blazing fast
speeds, the local support touch will always help :-)"
The server does not run Control panel software such as cPanel/Plesk
etc. It is a bare bones server with minimum software. Any website/
CMS (Content Management System) such as Joomla, Drupal, Mambo, and Magneto etc will run without any problems. We provide FTP access to customer to upload their data, the website can easily be managed using the web interface provided by above-mentioned applications.
In addition, they do not run a SMTP/POP3/IMAP server to provide stability for web site performance. For email, they strongly recommend, using Google Apps for your domain. With a web-hosting package, we can migrate email for your domain to Google Apps for no additional charge.
A web host plays a very vital role in the life and success of a Web site. You may have a wonderful website but if your server cannot withstand the traffic or is not secure, you will tend to loose all your readers as was happening with me earlier and then I shifted this blog to a better server. The bad part of the story is this blog is not hosted on his server.
Swapneel Patnekar
eth1 Network Solutions
www.eth1.in
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Belgaum Young Guns - Dr. Ameet Patil - Spundhan Softwares
10:46 AM Posted by ukmad
Dr. Ameet Patil is a server in himself storing a lot of talent on a real time basis. He was into software development from his engineering days and designed some software’s for his family and friends. A very good cricketer with various awards to his credit during his college days, also won “Gold Medal” and “State Award” in All India Painting Competition for two consecutive years, keen interest in traveling and photography add to his passion. A topper from in engineering, he was also awarded the Best boy of the year. He studied at Sandur Residential School as his father was Maintenance manager in the Sandur Manganese and Iron Ore (SMIORE) Company in Sandur. Later he studied at St. Mary's High School and did his engineering from KLE engineering college.Dr. Ameet has been awarded a PhD. in Computer Science from the University of York, UK. In his thesis, he proposed a reflection-based RTOS framework that allowed runtime adaptation of the OS resource management policies to support varying application-specific requirements.
The reflective framework was implemented and evaluated in a custom built RTOS as well as in the Linux OS (2.6.16 kernel).
Few researchers working along with Ameet in York's Real-Time Systems group started a company in 2006 and in 2007 appointed Dr. Ameet as a Software Engineer. Ever since his college days, Ameet always wanted to do something of his own someday. He wanted to return to his home town Belgaum. Looking at his competence, many-a-times his friends suggested that he start a company. Since then he was on the lookout for the right occasion or the right project to kick off. After a full year of working in York, he realized the best way to start a venture in Belgaum was to permanently move to Belgaum and then fight it out himself, otherwise he would never be able to do it.
Early in 2008, he set himself a deadline to return to India by the end of 2008. With the help of his parents, he registered Spundhan as a company in March 2008. During the last few months of his stay at York, UK, he made a proposal to provide consultancy services to his employer from India. By leveraging over cost and quality, he convinced them and bagged the contract. He moved back to Belgaum, India on 31-Dec-2008 and started working fulltime from 01-Jan-2009. Now Ameet is busy looking for new projects, planning on the growing the company, etc. have been instrumental in shaping my career and a greater reason for my return to Belgaum.
Dr. Ameet is currently promoting Spundhan as a Services company in the area of real-time embedded systems. Spundhan is a leading provider of software development, training and consultancy services. To name a few, they specialize in embedded systems, RTOS, device drivers, software timing analysis and much more. Having said that, Spundhan does not restricted itself to real-time systems alone. It can ready provide services in other areas such as web applications, enterprise application, linux-based systems, etc. Spundhan is also keen on providing training services to the young Indian market.
Dr. Ameet also has various publications to his name, “Efficient Page lock/release mechanism in OS for out-of-core Embedded Applications”, in Proceedings of the 13th IEEE Real-time and Embedded Computing Systems and Applications Symposium (RTCSA), Daegu, S. Korea, Aug. 2007 , “Towards a File System Interface for Mobile Resources in Networked Embedded Systems”, “Implementing Application-Specific RTOS Policies using Reflection”, “The Styx IP-Core for Ubiquitous Network Device Interoperability”, “Operating Systems and Supporting Architectures for Embedded Real-Time Systems”, “PROTON: a customizable on-the-fly Virtual Memory Simulator” are just a few of them.
Some excerpts of interview with Dr.Ameet Patil-
1. How will you explain to a lame person what do you do exactly?
Ameetà Spundhan aims to touch every Indian's heart with what it does. We aim to develop and market software products in any domain: mobile, banking, PC, aircrafts, automobiles, etc. Currently, make develop specialized embedded software applicable to aircrafts, military applications, automobiles and telecommunications.
2. You worked in UK from 2004 to 2008 what was your over experience there with people from other nations?
Ameetà I love to work with different kinds of people and have been very lucky in this aspect while in the UK. My colleague were from all parts of the world including US, China, Japan, Spain, Italy, France, and many more. During my PhD. I have supervised undergraduate students from different regions. It’s amazing how different people are? How you interact with a particular person depends on which part of the world he/she is from. The difference in culture, religion and language in general makes it even more exciting.
I have a chance to travel to a lot of different countries to attend/present at international conferences. Some of these countries include: USA, Mexico, Spain, France, Germany, Portugal, S. Korea, etc.
3. You always wanted to come back to India but why Belgaum?
Ameetà I am a Belgaum product. There’s something about Belgaum that I can't let go. Most of my relatives and friends are in Belgaum and also, the weather in Belgaum has been very good for me.
Apart from my attachment to Belgaum, today's globalization allows one to work from any place in this world. The location does not matter anymore. Why go to crowded Bangalore or any other city when I have my very own Belgaum?
4. You started this startup in 2008, what made you start this? What was the motivation behind it?
Ameetà I am sure all will agree: “Every one of us at one point dreamt in our lives to do something of our own.” I was no different. The only difference probably is that I took it too seriously and followed my dreams. Developing computer software comes natural to me. I get excited to work on new things, learn new languages, new technologies. What best way to do this other than starting a company of your own? That way it is you who decides what you want to do... I love that freedom!
5. Weren’t you afraid, what if the company fails?
Ameetà It is too early for me to say that the company is a success. Never-the-less I am not afraid even if it fails. One thing I definitely will take back from it is that: “I at least followed my dreams. I tried”. I have no regrets. I thank God for giving me this chance.
6. How did you fund it? All with internal accruals or personal savings?
Ameetà All my personal savings.
7. How and what was the reaction of your parents and friends when you told them about this startup?
Ameetà Most Indians think going abroad means a big achievement and there is a much better life there than in India. Some even hate being in India for its bureaucratic systems and the lethargy involved.
So, the initial panic was quite justified. They were dead against me leaving a well paying job in England. The idea of returning to India, moreover to Belgaum, poked them in the eye. They were baffled and shocked by my move. Not any more though. They now believe I made the right decision.
8. Why this name Spundhan?
Ameetà Spundhan is a sanskrit word, it means rhythmic heart beat. Something that never stops, keeps on going... It was actually coined by one of my school friends: Raghavendra Kulkarni, who once wanted to join hands with me.
9. How much turnover do you expect to achieve in this current year and what are your estimates for the next two years, any targets? (Approx)
Ameetà It’s a speculation really. Given the hard work I put in, I am expecting a turnover of 10 to 12 lakhs this year and hopefully double it every year.
10. Does foreign exchange have any impact on your business?
Ameetà Currently, yes. Our client is based in the UK and they pay in UK pounds. The fluctuations in the rupee value definitely affect but do not make a huge dent in revenues.
11. Globally who are your clients Indian or Global?
Ameetà Both actually.
12. In this time of global recession is there any slowdown in your business, or do you see it coming a bit later?
Ameetà Spundhan offers very niche services. So far we are not affected by recession. However, we cannot rule it out and are careful in planning for the future.
13. Your thoughts on collective development of IT & ITEs in bgm.
Ameetà Unlike Bangalore where there is cut-throat competition, Belgaum is still in a budding stage. We need to plot Belgaum on the global IT map. It needs help. One person or one company is not good enough, we need to collaborate and collectively develop Belgaum IT. Let’s share our knowledge and grow together.
14. What is that you like the Most of Belgaum?
Ameetà For me Belgaum weather comes as first. For business, it’s the location advantage which makes it closer to all major IT hubs in India (Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad).
15. What do you like the most to do when you are not working?
Ameetà Play with my Dog: Bruno, socialize with friends and family, travel to new places or read books.
16. Tell us something about your family?
Ameetà I live with my parents and my wife Sushma who happens to be my childhood friend as well.
17. Your favorite quote, if any?
Ameetà I am a firm believer of this: “Where there’s a will, there’s a way”
18. Your thoughts on people thinking of coming back to Belgaum and starting up a new venture.
Ameetà This is the best time to do it Do it now or you will never do it. Belgaum and India in general has great potential. There are so many things one can do here. Come back and you will never regret it.
19. Lastly what do you think about this blog?
Ameetà Amazing work. Belgaum and all Belgaumites salute you. Keep up the great work.
Address:
Spundhan SoftwaresH.No. 666, II stage, RC Nagar, Belgaum- 590006Phone: +91-831-2442200Website: http://www.spundhan.com/index.php
