1997…
Me: Baba, I don’t want to go to college, please buy me a computer I want to start my software business.
Father: First, you have to complete your graduation then I’ll think about your computer!
2003…
Yahoo Chat Friend: Hey, what do you do?
Me: I’m an entrepreneur, I build and sell software applications.
Yahoo Chat Friend: Really? Well, we have a vacancy for a trainee engineer, would you like to join?…
I was born in a middle-class family in which thinking about becoming an entrepreneur was like having the desire to eat some forbidden fruit! But I probably thought myself as someone like Lily Evans Potter, a muggle-born wizard hence I always natured an impossible aspiration of becoming an entrepreneur… one day!
Three failed startups in the last four years (as an employee, though!) my goal seemed stupid and distant. Then came a friend/colleague with his startup idea (R2D Freight), and we took the plunge! I next two months, we got going with the development of our second startup product (KidzByte).
I still can’t believe that we have now completed our first year. Mithu Sarkar without your courage Ebullientech Interactive LLP would not have become a reality. Pradnyesh and Amin, I don’t know what you saw in me and quit everything to make my impossible desire a reality.
Some photos from our first anniversary celebrations…