wisdominhindsight
wisdominhindsight
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After completing Electrical Engineering from VJTI (Bombay University) and M.S. Electrical and Computer Engg from University of Southern California, I spent the first 10 years of my working life in a pure play Electrical and Electronics Engineering products and services company, in Mumbai, India. After that, in 1998 began the most exciting 9 years of my working life, till date. The founding of Homeindia.com as a business, nurturing it from a seed and then endeavoring to make it a large online retail company, navigating through the ups and downs of the industry and the economy, the dot com boom and the dot com bust, and what not.
Ultimately we sold Homeindia.com, not for a lot of money. A moderate success financially, if at all, but a huge positive in terms of experience and knowledge that I gathered.
I am currently working as COO at Compare Infobase Ltd., where I am able to utilize the rich experience gained at Homeindia.com.
However this blog is clearly about my Homeindia.com story. An attempt to chronologically put together the 9 years of Homeindia, and which at the end, might make for a full fledged book as well.
Be it this blog or be it a book that I ultimately manage to convert it into, the need for these chronicles is immense. You can find on the book shelves, the many examples of success stories - the Amazons, the Ciscos, the Apples of this world. And yet, each day, there are multiple businesses with great potential, which are falling by the wayside. Would they be able to learn from the experiences of one who did not quite make it that big? I guess so. Its with these intentions that this attempt is being made.
An attempt, which as the title suggests, attempts to share "the wisdom in hindsight" so that others may benefit from it, without having to go through the same pains!
All the best to my fellow entrepreneurs.. !
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