Managing - being organized

The place where I do stay it was not so economically sound few years back but with advancement of time the place got modernized and the population increased rapidly. Many schools were opened near by and value of that area really increased. The only thing which remained same was the roads, it never increased in size. As a result every morning at 8 there is a huge traffic as because students are being brought to the schools by cars, buses and bikes.
How government tried to solve this huge traffic is by simply placing more numbers of police there. This was the solution brought down from managing authorities of the government.

Now, all these which you just read now had no connection with what I really want to say. Actually today in the morning my partner said that a website development company claims that they can build any kind of site in just 7 days. Well very impressive.

I really though about this and compared the work flow in the company where I work currently. Here any project takes minimum 2 months to complete. Then I got the idea that how can one possibly say such sentence regarding completing of a website project in just 7 days.

I basically do project management when working on any project. I really try to learn and new methodologies so that development team may complete the project on time and with quality. I read many ways and try to implement those and test it to come up with new ways of project development.

--Still learning, but yes I can't really complete any kind of website in just 7 days.

Employee Entrepreneur

Working as a 9-5 full time employee and trying hard to start a new business/venture alongside, then you will need:-

1. Commitment: Working for yourself, your venture with a thought that it may replace your job or bring in a steady flow of revenue then; "Ask yourself that whether your passion for the new business venture is strong enough to surpass the frustrations and struggles of working all hours of days and night?"

2. Stay Organized: one has to work more hard to stay on top of everything when managing a full time job and a side business.

3. Prioritize: this is the only way to finish the task within deadline.

4. Constantly assess: while growing a business one is likely to try new projects and partnerships that may or may not work. To succeed you need to be in a constant evaluation mode.

5. Start small: If you aim too high and set unrealistic goals, you will likely find yourself discouraged and frustrated with your progress, or lack thereof. Balancing a side venture and a 9-5 full time job is tough; hence it is important to cut yourself a slack when creating objectives for your entrepreneurial venture. Celebrate each small success and recognize that each step leads you closer to long-term success.

6. Be Resourceful: When you are trying to run a business, you have to keep a record of a lot of details on your own. However if you are also working full time then it is not realistic to think that you can do everything of your own, especially if you don’t have the skills for the goals need to accomplish. Either partner with someone or hire someone.

Proactively build a network of trusted resources that you can rely on from time to time to keep your business' momentum going. For example, seek out a recent college graduate looking for experience to handle the day-to-day administrative work and gain real-life job experience.

7. Be Patient: small business takes time to be profitable. Make slow progress, as opposed to turning points and seeing business boom right away.          

8. Accept failure and criticism in stride: Don’t be discouraged when something doesn’t work out. Every mistake is an opportunity to learn how to do better next time.

9. Don’t forget to recharge: To start your own business you have to accept a workaholic lifestyle, but don’t forget to maintain a little balance in your life. Sometimes, you'll get inspiration or ideas in the least likely places. Don't underestimate how much keeping up with your day-to-day social engagements and routines may help you succeed.

New Experiences

Well I was not so much aware that where can my company (http://www.coginnotech.com/) go actually but still kept very few amount of hope from inside that any how will try hard to hustle to survive and do a small amount of business in this market. We didn't have any contacts nor any good will in the market but still we are into this trying our best to work and earn.

Today was one of the unexpected days of my life. Some days when we learn something which is really valuable to us then we basically recall all those moments at night so that we can refresh our memory and don't forget those easily.

Previously the warm love was basically very important to me but now the most important thing is my passion. I have a desire to live the way I want to i.e. to reach the destination (where everyone will reach one day i.e. death) by taking those paths which I want to travel. I don't want to live like simply floating on the boat of life, I want to live like crossing the river as a journey which I have to cross by swimming across it, facing all the waves and tearing all the storms, want to have an experience which I cannot even imagine. I don't know that whether that experience will be the bitter one or sweeter one, it’s just our mind set, our view point and nothing else.

+Anup is trying hard to make things possible in the company. Stretching the legs to reach out to at least one single customer. It is his capabilities that today we actually got one customer :) well I am not considering how much big or small the project is, but actually I am destined and passionate to provide a service which will not just be liked by our customer but he should love our work. We have found the element which is the key success of any company, that is at the very end the customer's satisfaction is the ultimate goal.

If we can only satisfy their needs and requirements through our services then obviously they are going to pay us happily, which actually happened today. This is what the lesson which I have learned, that its to get the opportunity of any project or sale it is not the brand name actually (yes it may matter at the first step) but latter on it is the behavior of an organization towards their customer.

Moreover I am not only trying to provide services to our customers but in fact in our heart it is, we want to add value to their business that means we have a mindset that whom so ever we are going to provide service to, we will support them and help them to make more profits from our services (basically they will be applications most of the time). Help them to expand and organize their business proficiently.

Seriously living life and feeling it too. Thank you to him who really deserves it :)

Trying all possible ways to sustain

Well after so many days I am writing again.. my post are haphazard, having no proper structure or flow. The reason is my life is also not so well organized. I am flowing as the way time is making me to. I tried so many things. created company persuaded people joined a job. don't know absolutely what to do, why i am doing and how i m going to live..
I know this much that I wanna live a life in a way that at the end there shouldn't be any regret. I don't wanna waste my time and my life.
Well here is something from my memory docs

On 15^th of June 2013, I and my friend had finally decided to form a firm and work together to bring projects and try to complete them and deliver it on time. We were highly enthusiastic and willing to do a lot and face all the hurdles to overcome the bridge of earning. We went to our 1^st client and had a talk with him very confidently. Someplace we might have become nervous but with time the weakness was defeated by the courage of our heart and we turned up to very normal while talking to him. Though his requirements were huge and were crossing our capabilities but we remain calm as because in past we have already touched some lines which were out of our reach and just because of necessity we had to cross our limits to learn more and develop our skills to accomplish something really difficult. Any way after listening to him we at last said the cost for developing his project. We tried to be very comfortable while talking so that he may feel good.
This was the first day when I learnt how to talk to customer and most importantly at those situation when we have to persuade the customer to pay, these situation are highly different from normal talks with people.

Okay the first day was over and then I was back to my track, the normal way of life. Next day I had to visit another customer who had quiet minimum requirements and thus we were confident as we had been through this situation once. Now this time we were one time experience professionals and talk very formally. But this customer didn't pay that much amount of attention to us. We were not able to grab his attention as I think so or more perfectly we can say that he was no so interested in building up the website. Any way we talked to him and everything went fine.

After two days me and my friend Rishav planned together and went to his school to have a talk with them. Our motto was to persuade them to build their own website and hence we may get some bucks flowing towards us. Though it may be plenty but it may bring showers of strength to us and rotate the wheel of our business initially. But unfortunately we were not so successful to accomplish what we planned for. Rather our meeting with the principal of that school turned out to be a bit improper and I have figured out there reply, which was definitely NO. They actually didn't say like that, or else we would have been insulted then but we were lucky as they replied ‘give me the pamphlet we would inform you if required’ and we left.

We met 3 clients in a week and we were really happy as we started well. We were filled with confidence and enthusiasm. Then after few days we were sandwiched with the hectic responsibilities which we had taken over our head. One was Artwork-4all and second was Security courses, both of these responsibilities took a hell lot of energies from us and we had no energy in us to give time to our newly formed firm. Along with these, we also made a hater which was Softwebs.co.in. It was easily perceptible that he didn't like our idea of forming a company who would operate and provide services in the same field as theirs; this made us the competitor of each other. Let this hatred go to hell, we should focus on our work and business, we are not going to hate any one or be jealous of any person or company. This is not in our nature. So purely think and concentrate on our aims and 100% flawless devotion on our own company.

After all these days I figured out that the difficulty is not crossing the bridge of earning, it’s actually taking the first step to get a project which may bring cash in the firm. The initial steps are really very hard and difficult to cross.

Today is 2^nd July, I went for an interview at Salt Lake which was the second round and disappointingly it was not so good. What so ever it was a 10k salary job, I don’t know whether I will get selected or not. I was not so much comfortable while the interview. Some where I realized that I can’t be good in technical interview. So was I made for MBA or Engineering? WAIT!!! What if these two courses were not designed yet then? What should you say that what are your skills??

A glimpse of yesterday

I use to think that I am a responsible human who can take up responsibilities on his own shoulders and make things happen. Unfortunately I was wrong, I was in an illusion which had led me to think this, sometimes I use to think myself to be a person who is an Entrepreneur, a person who is full of energies and motivation, a person who believe in himself and tries to do something really worthy. I was day dreaming about myself. 

My subjective world

Every person have worries in their mind and in their heart, I have too. I don't call them burden because they all the the portion of my thoughts which I think in a whole day.

Artwork-4all : recently Vishal's dad has asked me and anup that if we all shake hands with each other so that we may help to generate the revenue from the site then it is a good idea for us. We all can work together and if any sort of income starts generating then it will be divided as per the percentage.

Uncertain Investment of my TIME

Me and Anup, we both had been working on this Health Care website and there has been a lot of changes in it since the time we started working on it. The database design has been changed two times and the look and feel of the websites has been changed vastly. We have been giving our asses to this project and working from three months. Data are about to come and then we have to feed it to the website and soon the website is going to live in this month (it is April 2013). Man we have been working out ass out and I should really appreciate Anup as because he was the man who worked really hard and most of the credit goes to him. We both are working on two projects sequentially and giving our days and nights to it, not the night we do sleep ;-) . Now the thing which I want to say is that though we are working so hard but we have not been rewarded for any of these neither verbally nor in money terms. Frankly speaking I am loosing my faith from this Hospital Care website. I really don't know that whether it is really going to earn money or not. Whether people are going to come and visit our website or not I really don't know. What if we don't get any return and the whole project get demised  I will really feel bad about it and loose a bit of my heart.