Always hire quality people” is the rule followed by Siddharta Govindaraj, the 29 years old founder of Silverstripesoftware.com, a Chennai based self funded startup which has just two employees including the founder himself.
Though many companies want to stick to this rule, they get desperate after looking around for a while and eventually lower their hiring standards. “We are comfortably waiting till we find the right people” tells Sid who started his company in March 2007.
One of the leading causes of project failure is the poor communication between stakeholders and teams. Silverstripesoftware.com specialises in software that eases this pain in making software deliveries.
During his 4 years stint as an employee with a startup in Singapore, Sid got the experience in a process called Agile Software Development. Since the process was new at that time, there was a lack of quality tools available for developing this software. Sid had the vision of filling this gap and started off his own company back in India.
Offering their basic version for free and advanced version for a premium, their target customers are SMEs and medium size development shops abroad. Now a toddler in its development, the lack of money is the real challenge for this baby to grow, but this company does selective projects to get the revenue for funding their product development. With a record 3000 downloads of their software and with positive feedback for a couple of added features, they are making a few changes in their current version.
Though they manage revenues from custom projects, marketing is done through the internet and by actively participating in the Agile Software Development community in India. Since there are a very few established companies in its niche and their competitors being in business for less than two years, Sid finds it a level playing field to be won at the right possible time and achieve profits by middle of 2009. Sid a visionary of Chennai Open Coffee Club is pepping up his engines for achieving a break even by end of 2009 by concentrating on marketing and sales.
From his own experience he finds that many people while plunging into entrepreneurship have many doubts hindering on pursuing their entrepreneurial idea. Though many people opine that the right way is to clear all the doubts beforehand, Sid makes it a strong point that entrepreneurs should go ahead and make a plunge on starting up on their own.
“There is no way to clear everything upfront before starting. First start and then tackle each challenge as it comes on your path” tells Sid.
hat is Kaushik the first employee of Silverstripesoftware.com. He blogs at chaosbudha.blogspot.com and his microblog is http://twitter.com/kausikram
Address:
Silver Stripe Software Private Limited
75, Second Street, Karpagam Avenue
R.A.Puram, Chennai – 600 028
Tamil Nadu
India
Tel: +91 9940036487
Contact: info@silverstripesoftware.com
Blog: http://www.silverstripesoftware.com/blog/
Sid’s personal blog: http://siddhi.blogspot.com/
Though many companies want to stick to this rule, they get desperate after looking around for a while and eventually lower their hiring standards. “We are comfortably waiting till we find the right people” tells Sid who started his company in March 2007.
One of the leading causes of project failure is the poor communication between stakeholders and teams. Silverstripesoftware.com specialises in software that eases this pain in making software deliveries.
Offering their basic version for free and advanced version for a premium, their target customers are SMEs and medium size development shops abroad. Now a toddler in its development, the lack of money is the real challenge for this baby to grow, but this company does selective projects to get the revenue for funding their product development. With a record 3000 downloads of their software and with positive feedback for a couple of added features, they are making a few changes in their current version.
Though they manage revenues from custom projects, marketing is done through the internet and by actively participating in the Agile Software Development community in India. Since there are a very few established companies in its niche and their competitors being in business for less than two years, Sid finds it a level playing field to be won at the right possible time and achieve profits by middle of 2009. Sid a visionary of Chennai Open Coffee Club is pepping up his engines for achieving a break even by end of 2009 by concentrating on marketing and sales.
From his own experience he finds that many people while plunging into entrepreneurship have many doubts hindering on pursuing their entrepreneurial idea. Though many people opine that the right way is to clear all the doubts beforehand, Sid makes it a strong point that entrepreneurs should go ahead and make a plunge on starting up on their own.
“There is no way to clear everything upfront before starting. First start and then tackle each challenge as it comes on your path” tells Sid.
hat is Kaushik the first employee of Silverstripesoftware.com. He blogs at chaosbudha.blogspot.com and his microblog is http://twitter.com/kausikram
Address:
Silver Stripe Software Private Limited
75, Second Street, Karpagam Avenue
R.A.Puram, Chennai – 600 028
Tamil Nadu
India
Tel: +91 9940036487
Contact: info@silverstripesoftware.com
Blog: http://www.silverstripesoftware.com/blog/
Sid’s personal blog: http://siddhi.blogspot.com/
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