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…
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…
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.…
Jul 4th –Surya sent a link for M.R agencies in Hyd, although according to him there are no real M.R agencies in Hyd – only offices of the bigger agencies. However, the link he sent was more useful in that it was the website of yellow pages. Now, i’ve got pointers to some other firms…
Well crashing your laptop (again) and fixing it (again, huh) does qualify as wastage of time. That is what I did, most of this weekend. On the brighter side, I did get encouraging leads for some key ideas had for my plan. One was for the cooks, and the other for the packaging. Kiran got…
Jun 26 – Met Hemanth at lunch. Talked about my plans. He had a lot of questions and suggestions. Always good to find somebody question you. Makes your mind work on problems which it otherwise would ignore. Am in a pretty bad position right now, don’t even have a preliminary estimate of costs.
Jun 25 – Lot of work today, office work. On the phone for 8hrs…
19-Jun-08Finally got down to doing some research on which insurance to buy. Asked Asik for advice and he favored term plans if the main purpose was cover. Looked at the LIC website, term insurance was indeed the cheapest option. But the only problem is that the longest plan will cover me for 35 years –…
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Today (hurray!): Updates from Asik – no small M.R firm in sight. Hemanth is trying to get some too, poor fellow (and poor me) got busy as soon as he went back to school. Mailed one guy i found on Ryze Hyderabad asking if he was interested, have to check what he says.Looked at a…
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