Journal Updates

Well I know this is getting kinda boring :) Content writer needed !!!

1. March '11 - End of Financial year, just three projects and loses of 10L :D

2. April - June '11 - Employee count grew to 20 full time. Projects executed 10 in 3months. Almost break even :)

3. July '11 - New projects, new horizon, new targets, new talent. Money is somewhere around, have to organize properly to move into profits.

Places covered

States visited in the last one year

1. MP
2. Tripura
3. Kerala
4. Delhi
5. Tamil Nadu
6. Karnataka
7. Gujarat


Places I haven't been to but my team worked in:

8. UP
9. Maharashtra


Likely states to begin works in next 2months:

10. Chattisgarh
11. Rajasthan
12. Assam


and finally we have our own:
13. AP !!

13/28. Not bad :-)

Journal

So, I have decided that we should have a journal to track my work. Will experiment on my blog 1st ;)


May '10 : Registered eV Renewables Pvt Ltd
May '10 : Hired our 1st employee, a fresher. Thought experienced folks might not want to Join the firm
June '10 : Trained him in Goa
August '10 : He quits eV :)
August '10 : Hired Jatish, 3yrs experience.
Sept '10 : Our 1st commercial project for Solar Semi.
Sept '10 : Our 1st LED Lighting at Hyderabad.
Oct '10 : Our 2nd full time employee and 2 part timers.
Oct '10 : Installation at Cell towers in Pune, Samnapur, Sangamner, Ummerkhand and Hyderabad.
Nov '10 : Approval for a project of 100 cell towers.
Dec '10 : Hired 2 more experienced folks. One with 15yrs exp and another with 9.
Dec ' 10: The cell towers project gets delayed indefinitely due to unforeseen reasons.
Dec '10 : Roof top project in Jhabua, MP for an NGO. Made a loss of 15K due to extra wiring required.
Jan '11: Hired one more 10yrs experienced engineer.
Feb '11: Confirmation of solar roof top at Nagole.
Feb '11: Confirmation of 100KWp installation (Mechanical and electrical) at Hyderabad.
Feb '11: Confirmation of 100KWp installation (only mechanical) at Vizag.
Feb '11: Confirmation of 60 Solar street lights
Feb '11: Confirmation of a roof top installation for a school to run 15 computers.

From here on I'll try to make these one line posts every time I have an update.

I know its kinda of boring, but I don't have the money to pay a writer :)

Lazyyyyy

Lots of updates, but lazy me ..its been 2months :-)

Structuring the company

Recently I have hit a road block, a major one. I can't find business executives !! Now that IT jobs are back, people seem to prefer a job in the call center than of a business executive in a startup (thought the perks through commission are much much higher !! ). This is where I realized, I was doing a grave mistake. With the initial few clients coming from word of mouth publicity, I haven't really given full attention to structuring the company based on the clients.

As a services startup in power industry, potentially everyone is a client. Anyone who needs electricity for next 25yrs is a client. But whom do I want to concentrate on? Should I try to tap the consumer market directly or start with the bigger clients? The ironic situation would be that the bigger clients who could afford solar solutions might not prefer a startup,and the individual consumer who would cannot afford.

With this problem in mind, I set out to structure the company. To decide on the divisions and market I'll be overseeing and those I'll delegate. To choose the regions served in 1st stage and when the planned branches should start. What would be the guidelines for targets assigned to the executives working part time and those for full time.

brb with answers :-)