Its been a very long time since I last wrote a blog post. Unlike other addictions, blogging seems to have few withdrawal symptoms. That would be why I just haven't gotten myself to update the blog in a long time! However, there are many updates to share and hence this post!
Travel Boutique Online nominated amongst NASSCOM TOP 100 IT Innovators
Travel Boutique Online (TBO) is our travel industry focused B2B platform. In our first year of operation, we have seen tremendous growth in this business and to top it, we were nominated amongst the top 100 IT innovators for 2007 by NASSCOM. This was a great accomplishment for our technology team. As a business, we have largely flown under the radar in a space (online travel) which sees lot of news and activity. We have also followed a radically different business model by going B2B in a space that is so far dominated by B2C players. TBO deserves a post (actually several posts) to itself. But getting the NASSCOM nomination was definitely a high point for us.
Three years of Tekriti
Tekriti completed three years of existence on 7th Feb 2008. It has been a terrific ride so far and time has flown by fast! We are now nearing the 100 employee mark, have added new clients, delivered several dozen projects and very importantly, brought domestic mix in our client list. Our commitment to product/platform based model has borne fruit and our video publishing product TekMedia has found good adoption in the last few months. There is a lot more to share which I will leave for future posts. However, we do have a new logo (as seen here) and a brand new company website. Do take a look and send back feedback my way.
New office move!
We are moving to a new office! For almost an year now, we have been operating out of three different offices. Obviously this makes things difficult. It increases costs and reduces communication. So now we are moving to nearby Udyog Vihar. We will have a whole building to ourselves. With 15000 sqft of space, a nice cafeteria and a recreational lounge, I can't wait to move in!
I am hoping to get back to blogging. I started getting back in the mould by micro-blogging on twitter but New Delhi Times is the real thing!
It is great to see you here after a long time. Congrats on your success. It is good to see you growing at such a tremendous rate.
Congratulations on your continued success!!
Tekriti FTW!
I have been visiting newdelhitimes frequently, and its been great to
get a blog post from you after so many
days.
Congratulations for both the Nasscom
nomination and also for TekMedia.
This is something which kind of breaks
through the track-record of Indian IT
in 2 ways :
a) Something which caters to the
local environment instead of some offshore
client - travelboutique.
b) A Product.
The first point is something which even
Craig Mundie in a recent trip to India
had pointed out that despite the growing
number of programmers and computer engineers
in India hardly any entrepreneur had come
up with technologies which empower local
people and businesses. I'm sure TravelBoutique will help a lot of local
businesses , hotels , airlines eventually.
Congrats! (for several things)
Where in Udyog vihar?
Thanks everybody! Prashant - your observations are in line with our goals of being both services and product oriented and targeting the domestic market.
Saad - WTF is FTW?
TF - we are moving to Phase-V behing Trident.
FTW = For The Win
Commonly used among geeks to express their enthusiasm for something, especially in IRC.
a) Cola is best
b) nope, Pepsi is way better
a) Cola FTW!
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=FTW
This comment is kind of unrelated to Tekriti
- but speaking of Indian IT - one thing which has struck me as a terrible development in the past few months ( however superficial it may seem) - is the renaming of Bangalore to Bengaluru. Its not that I have something against people's local languages . Its just that I'm against rebranding in a way which altogether mows down a brand. Its like Microsoft or Google expecting to have the same profits even after deciding to change their names overnight after someone in the upper rungs had a fit. Not that I think this'll reduce
the effectiveness of Bangalore as an IT hub
but still .. Just curious .. what do u think about it Gaurav ? Its a small thing
but its worth a thought.
http://prashant-b.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!51652F821A10556E!206.entry
Gaurav,
I have been a regular reader of your web site as I am thinking of moving back. Good to see you are happy and progressing well.
My best wishes and keep blogging as I started to miss your blogs