busy busy busy!
I am terribly guilty of not responding to some very interesting comments on my blog of late. Last week or so has been really busy with many things happening at the same time. We completed what we call the "vanilla" version of People Aggregator and I am really glad to see how fast and zippy it is! We are also building some neat media upload technology which is starting to look very cool. At the same time, I am having to do some serious paper work to get the STPI status for Tekriti. BTW - here is a lesson we learnt the hard and expensive way - if you are planning to setup an export oriented software business in India, get your STPI registration done even before you accept your first payment. STPI status gives you complete tax freedom until 2009! We waited too long and consequently we ended up working 35% of our time for the government of India :)
Today we also had one of those fun multi-continent conference calls - Marc in SFO, Phil in New Zeland, Martin in Germany and us in Gurgaon. Its always interesting to hear Marc speak. His ideas are so futuristic that it takes every single brain cell to simply keep pace with him and his thoughts. But he has always been ahead of his time and more often than not been right in his vision for the future. So I am excited to see how things are shaping up and how much Tekriti is involved in defining the future of the web!
To top it off, we are taking the company through an exercise of "training needs assessment" to see what kinds of trainings we need to organize in the coming year. Dr. Nigam from TeNeT is here working 1-1 with each Teknokrat. We will be discussing the results tomorrow in a group meeting.
So, sorry for not being able to respond to all those interesting comments but its been a busy busy week!
Comments
I found myself wondering if everyone wasn't hitting serious overload on that call. I often find myself wondering if people will be too polite to say - what? are you crazy? you want us to build what? In how much time? You know - the basics. But then again I just had a conversation with Marc in which I may have understood - oh about 50% of what he was saying. I understood the words - I just couldn't see the product he could see as clear as day. Luckily tech is not all we talk about......
Posted by: Lisa Canter | February 5, 2006 10:17 PM
Hi Gaurav,
I am also thinking of setting up an STPI unit in Delhi and have been having quite a hard time.
Can you please help with a few quick short answers?
1. STPI scheme requires a 3 year upfront fee. But the scheme ends in 2009. Do you think they will refund the last years fee if the scheme ends?
2. Can you recommend a good accountant to handle STPI documentation?
3. Did you have to get bonding done? If so, how long did it take?
4. How much time did it take you to setup the STPI from start to finish (being able to export)?
Thanks for your insight.
Posted by: Sumit | May 2, 2007 03:35 PM