But don’t get me wrong, Iam not criticizing my own company, yes my own company which I have built with lots of khoon(blood) and pasina(sweat). I was reading a blog post from an MIT researcher whom I regularly follow, he said people like to read negative stories about brands. His post was so engrossing that he grabbed my attention for almost 20 minutes on this post. (Now his blog is a secret since I draw a lot of marketing ideas from this guy, and I know a lot of my competitors follow me, so I wont reveal him publicly here, but if you are someone whom I like/know, just comment and I shall reply you via email.)

So, this is my idea to bring some good press to Globussoft and spread word about it. The apt title about this post shall be decided after the entire post has been written since I myself don’t know now what should be the very apt title for this post.

I have so many things in my head right now and I want to jot them down at one go.

Here I start,

Globussoft as you all know is NOT yet another IT services start up or a freelancing oriented body shop which many people have started percieving us.

We are an end to end consumer product company with major product releases slated by end of 2010.

We have already released 2 products – TwtZilla and Gamebibo which have been huge successes so far and are being liked a lot in their respective consumer communities.

Also, why we are not trying to be another company in  Axis of Evil as correctly mentioned by Vishal Gondal, there are several reasons -

1. These stupid IT Services companies, or so called largest IT companies of India produce hordes of Autobots each year.  Although Vishal calls them outbots I would like to change the nomenclature, I call them Autobots. Read more about my post on Autobots in next few weeks.We don’t want to join the league, we want to create a group of creative people who can create unique softwares which have very high appeal to mass market and end consumers.

2. I personally am part of the group which thinks that the Axis of Evil of IT Industry has created a very wrong brand of Indian Engineering Talent.  Engineers are asked to do ticket solving, or maintain year old systems or document code written ages ago by some freaky American company which makes 10 times the money by selling the shelved product of the very code which we Indians working in these IT companies maintain. FYI, this work can be done by even B.Com. or B.Sc. graduates and I have heard that they have started hiring B.Sc. graduates since they are not able to get enough engineers for these so called challenging tasks.

What we are trying to do is not create autobots but smart people who do justice with the degree they have earned in their 4 years of education.

A lot of people who work with me @Globussoft do follow my vision and buy my idea of creating a difference and not be part of the millions of autobots who do hamali at the IT Industry.

But ya I would gladly accept that there are quite a few do not subscribe to my vision and like to hop jobs which is a trend in the Indian IT industry, again created by the Axis of Evil.

Ideally I would like, as many of my Start-up friends feel, they should be stopped from Hiring Engineering Students from Any Engineering college in India. They have already been banned in IITs and the top premier engineering colleges due to the low work quality they offer that IITians consider as bullshit and instead prefer to work with start-ups or go for higher education.

This would be a great move to boost up the start-up space in India where we find lack of talented people who are willing to work with start-ups and be creative and be part of an organization trying to create a difference.

There are several reasons why one should be working with a start-up-

1. A start-up can give you some real food for thought, where you can flow your brain juices and effectively utilize your grey matter.

2. You get a chance of making a large impact and get recognized for your feat. Just imagine with 200 engineers facebook is able to handle 500 million consumers, that’s 1 engineer to 40,00,000 Users. What an impact a single engineer is making to the user community worldwide.

In our company, myself and another engineer built a product called TwtZilla and today its being consumed by over 20,000 people. Just imagine how much impact that engineer is able to make and what sort of challenges we face daily and solve while building such systems.

Dont you think its more challenging than solving tickets ?

3. Some start-ups like ours, offer you equities . Working with these shitty Indian IT biggies you can never reach those luxuries which every Indian dreams of. But if even a single product of the start-up you are working with clicks and strikes gold, you are a rich man and worth millions if not billions within no time. Do I need to give examples here? There are plenty I guess….

4. A start-up culture is the most favorable culture for proper career growth both personally and professionally. You get to play multiple roles in a start-up and everyone does everything. It helps you to grow yourself via multiple epicenters of your personality. Apart from that, you work as a small team with zero bureaucracy and feel pleased to actually get rewarded for your own hard-work, where nobody can steal your credit for his own benefits.

This list can go endless, and I can keep on adding the benefits of working with a product start-up rather than just another body shop.

However, I feel I have written enough on why Globussoft rocks! and does not suck .

It qualifies with all the qualities of a great and a successful start-up to be a part of.

If you are reading this post as a soon-to-be employee of Globussoft, I hope your stay with us will be equally challenging and enjoyable as I have promised here.

Recently I have been receiving quite a few emails from colleagues and my buddies all across the country working at some of the top notch Tech. firms expressing their strong desire to migrate back to Chattisgarh for some IT related opportunities. No, not because a lot of Global MNCs are moving to C.G .. read along..

A year ago, I decided to quit the well known IT giant TCS to realize my long cherished dream of a startup here in my hometown Bhilai. Since then we have been taking up a lot of steps to contribute to the IT innovation landscape in C.G. Just like me, there are many others who after gaining ample exposure from the captive R&D centers or the so called MNCs want to return home and be a part of something adventurous, something they have a reason to feel proud of!

It’s my good fortune that I have been endowed with overwhelming support from my well wishers all super excited to join forces with us in the various mind blowing (if I may) initiatives that we are working on, here at Globussoft.

Globussoft – the startup founded by me is now a 100,000$ company in total revenues and we are looking for smart and determined individuals like you who would like to be a part of this rapidly growing IT company and contribute towards the growth of IT and Software in C.G, our home state.

Excuse me for being a little blunt, but the government of the state of C.G is not taking many efforts for the upliftment of IT in the state nor is the local STPI society (Software Technology Parks of India) here in Bhilai any friendly to entrepreneurs and startups (believe me, I have been through it all!!). It’s difficult to retain local talent and candidates flee to metros and other prominent cities the moment they get a chance for reasons which I feel sorry to accept, are true. It’s high time that we take necessary steps to ensure that our state too can match up to the southern states and attract lucrative IT investments.

In the mutual benefit of the state and individuals, I on behalf of Globussoft request one and all to extend helping hands via project sponsorships, direct or indirect equity and be a part of India’s next IT revolution. We know we have the potential; it’s time to put together our collective minds.

It’s not compulsory to be employed with Globussoft to participate. You can contribute as an individual who wants to make a DIFFERENCE – it’s as simple as that!!!

And no, we don’t need any money. By God’s grace and our hard work and will, we have ample of that; all we need is your skills, your ideas and your precious time .

This sounds interesting, how do I proceed?

You need to send us an email with willingness to contribute your time. Right now Globussoft has envisioned 10 business units which have been incepted in 2010. Some are already functioning (Namely, NetVaani and TweetMati), while others are still being conceptualized.

Other than these 10 business units we have around 50-55 products which are at various stages of maturity.

You can take part in any of these business units OR you can suggest a product or an idea which can be incepted as an entire business unit of its own. Recently a guy, Virender from Rajnandgaon contacted me with his idea on device drivers. Our team is collaborating with him and soon the product will hit development roadmap and then head straight to the markets.

This way you too can have your ideas realized with us and in turn help generate IT jobs here in C.G, make it a better state for IT incubation. By working with Globussoft, you have a great marketing team at your disposal. We will help market your product and create business out of it via an established business model which is bound to succeed.

At Globussoft, a business unit is a mature product cum service which has its own eco-system and is able to function independently from the parent company.

Ok, I am in, what do I get in return?

In return you get equity of a product, of a business which YOU own. Your product will literally be your baby. We simply help you find the chance to plant the seed, nurture it, see it maturing and take pride in calling it your baby. It’s an out of the world feeling

Globussoft marketing team helps you with all the latest marketing techniques and you get your share of the overall income the product generates. This helps us hire more people to maintain and grow the product into a mature competitive business unit of its own.

A product sold 50x for less than 100$ is 5000 USD i.e. 2.4 Lakh INR. This is our worst case scenario for sale of any of our products. We normally sell 200-500 copies of our best products very year! Don’t be surprised if this amount turns out to be greater than your annual “package”

So why wait? Time to give momentum to your ideas, see them come to life! Come join us and be a part of this revolution!!

Sumit Ghosh

(The Ideator!!!)

Here at Globussoft, we seek genuine techmaniacs!

So, if you are fresher dreaming of whipping up some cool software, please visit our campus with a copy of your -
1. UPDATED resume.

2. Final Year Project with code and documentation.

We will ask you to setup the project in our test labs and do a run through for us. Most candidates get rejected at this phase since they have bought their final year project from somewhere or merely copy pasted some body else’s existing project.

We ask you to explain your involvement during various stages of the project development, the challenges you faced and your overall participation will be evaluated based on your responsiveness. Hence unless  you are genuinely prepared, you are going to find it a tough round to get past.

3. An algorithmic test – We ask you to code 5 programs in our campus.

4. HR round – Last and Final round to see if you are really employable

Please read about Globussoft before coming for this round…

Our business has doubled in last 2 years from 25000$ in first year as revenues to $65,000 in gross revenues in the fiscal 2010. (Source – Software Technology Parks of India – Annual Reports 2009-2010).

Our team strength has quadrupled from a 5 man team in 2007 to a 30 man team in 2010 in bhilai. All in all we are growing superbly fast and we need extremely talented souls to work with us and take part in what they do best.

To be a part of this fastest growing IT firm in Central India we look forward to have following qualities in you.

1. Be a motivated self starter.
2. Be a self learner and a fast learner, we need the fastest to be the fastest in this planet.
3. You should love what you want to do! (3 Idiots , Aamir? Does it ring a bell, if not go watch 3I again), for those you just hate coding, Iam sorry this is not a Good place to work
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And yada yada …

Life @ Globussoft is awesome with weekly cricket matches on Saturdays,quarterly outings and an Annual Picnic. Work timings are flexible since we need to accommodate the whole world as our customer base. Infact to be true Globussoft never sleeps and the Sun never sets for us too

All in all its a fantastic start up to work for , be it a fresher or be it an experienced pro in some cutting edge technology.

Read along following sections based on your professional level.

Hiring for Freshers @ Globussoft

Hiring for experienced professionals @ Globussoft

To all those who know me and have made some assumptions by now -

You all are wrong because -

1. No I was not ultra busy @ Globussoft cooking up code or marketing my company online , or generating leads for my business (as a lot of my friends were thinking) , Just so that you know I used to do the same amount of work earlier when I used to regularly update this blog as well, so being ultra busy is definitively not the reason.

2. I lost interest in “whats latest in technology” and hence I had nothing to write ? Lol, If you really know me, Can this ever happen in my life until Iam dead ?? ha ha, not a good reason again.

3. Probably I tried to follow path of the latest emerging trend of bloggers blogging shit everywhere who even don’t know what they are writing about and now since I feel enough is enough lets gets back to business and leave this shitty blogging business . It was just a trend in time, since every one in my (community, business, peer-group has his blog , I should also have a blog and write some shit in it and read it multifarious time and giggle lol.

For all those who thought this, probably a lot of my competitors, its a real shame that you failed to estimate my flair for writing mates…

Keep looking there is lot more to come…

PS: Some one whom I Admire a lot said that I sound rude and bold in this post

Yeah , she is partly correct since I forgot to add the fun element….

So friends what was something which stopped me from writing all these months other than the most obvious reasons which you might have been thinking.

Well you will laugh to death once I tell you. It was my BAD ASS – WEB HOSTER

Yeah I was using the services some some bad ass indian hosting company called as pradiphosting, he is some bong from west bengal and is such a bad ass. There is no way you can reach him, no phone calls, no address nothing. Only way I can contact him was email and Iam on his mercy whenever he feels like he can answer me , there was no professionalism as such , most of the times my blog was down, sometimes it went down while I was composing a new post.

All this made me so much frustrated that I gave up writing up new posts and start waiting when will this hosting cycle end and I will shift my blog to some new host with better service and timely support.

Now the fun part starts here -

I waited for almost almost 5 months for the billing period of pradiphosting to end without being wise enough to transfer my domain to a different provider.

After 5 months when my hosting expired,I was bombed. I had no way to get my blog back

I sent tons to mails to this pradip hosting guy but he never responded.

Such a big fool Iam, I was made to pay the renewal fees again to pradiphosting and also to the new hoster where I wanted to move the blog.

So I paid double the hosting fees just to save my love, Technomlounge Anything for you my love!

So finally I could login to my cpanel, take backup of everything and move my domain to a new control panel.

Currently my blog resides on one of India’s best hoster’s servers, call me if you want to know and Iam a damn happy customer

Tried to uninstall the existing installtion but in vain. Finally something from Microsoft came to my rescue.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/bb968856.aspx

It an automated uninstall tool, works in silent mode and uninstalls Visual Studio peacefully.

Was a real life saver for me!

Hope all those reading this blog will also find it useful.

Now Campus Duniya has grown from an infant baby to a true social networking beast.  Iam pretty sure it will trigger another social revolution among the campus going students of India,by the appeal and innvoation thats prevailing within it.

It has now become a true social platfrom for all campus goers to make it a social UGC powered site.

And – Campus Duniya was born!

CampusDuniya will provide all college goers an oppurtunity to connect with each other and share ideas,learnings and add value to the indian student community on a whole.

Do check it out and register yourself today!

Ram was giving final touches to this 2 chat room based flash project. I asked him to create a custom flv player for me and he did it within 15 minutes, I was quite impressed by the way he was grown competent in actionscript on his own.

Evening saw me taking a training session for some new trainees with Globussoft. They were very excited to have me address them.

Globussians were very excited to know that finally Iam going to leave TCS and join Globussoft fulltime from this february, I could see those expectations and faith in their Glittering eyes.

The previous year has been very tough for Globussoft , I was out and away for almost whole of the year and as it happens even with world’s strongest companies, in absense of efficient leadership, all deafs and dumbs start singing. Something similar happened here, although we suffered with this symptom for some time, but things came in control during the VT session.

Globussoft saw all ups and down it can and finally stablized a bit in the last months of the year. However we saw some immense losses in terms of man power, as some trained man power whom I had trained personally with my personal efforts left Globussoft to join its potential competetors(Although I dont consider them as any competetor as it needs a lot of technical expertise,experience and thought leadership to compete with Sumit Ghosh). The only thing which struck me was that they weren’t able to have sustained confidence and faith on me like their peers in Globussoft.

Any ways, I wish them a very best of luck for there future, it has happened in past with people who have left Globussoft in rush have felt guilty about their decision later.