Trip to Hyderabad

I had a great trip to Hyderabad last weekend. Pavan and I were there on Sunday and Monday. I returned to Bangalore on Tuesday morning. Pavan stayed back in order to find office space.

Written Test and Interview:

We did some recruiting work on Saturday morning. Pavan conducted the written test. Ten plus candidates wrote the test. I interviewed four candidates, three of them for the position of financial advisor and the remaining one was for administrative work.

Meet with Shravani:

I met with a Shravani, a chat friend of mine since 2000. She did MBA with specialization in Marketing from FMS, Delhi.

She was working with Maruti in Delhi and she wanted to come back south. So she quit Maruti and is back in Hyderabad. She is looking for a job right now. While I cannot afford her (6.5 + lakh p.a), I thought I could offer her a part time job in Bangalore pay some thing meaningful (to me) and she can keep looking for a job. But it seems her parents don't want her to come to Bangalore. That was a set back. I was really counting on her joining me. The good thing though is that she offered to help me with whatever she can in Hyderabad.

Meet with VLN Chowdary:

I met with Mr. VLN Chowdary who is into Equity Research. He offered to help me raise finances through his network. So I am thinking of raising more capital. I am confident of my ability to deploy about 50 lakhs or so of capital on my own. Any more money, I would need to hire other professionals/MBAs. I hope Prasanna and others are reading this :-)

Roaming around the city:

I roamed around the city in the following areas to find a city suitable place for setting up the office. I went around Gachibowli, Jubilee Hills, Banjara Hills and Hitech City. I think we will take up office space in Jubilee Hills or Banjara Hills. Pavan is working on this in Hyderabad.


Meet with Vamsi, Micrsoft:

Pavan and I met ex-Trilogian Vamsikrishna in Mircosoft's new campus. It was nice to meet him. He showed us the Microsoft new building. It is an amazing campus. Huge green lawn, great view, Full body gym, great cafeteria. Really really nice office. If you are working there, you wouldn't want to go to any other company. Someday Cressida will have an office like that :-)

I couldn't meet other ex-Trilogians : Kaylan Chakravarty (Out of Office or Oooff), Srinivas N(Oooff), Anuj Bindal (Oooff), Mohit Chakroborty (Not yet in office :-) and Asit Verma (left for IIMA). I will meet them next time.

Special Mention: Chandrababu Naidu, ex Chief-Minister of Andhra Prahesh.

The various IT parks at Hitech City and Gachibowli are because of Chandrababu Naidu's dreams a decade or so ago. Now they have turned into a reality. Many more things would have happened if he was elected again. One thing that caught my attention was the Financial Disctrict where UBS and Franklin Templeton have huge tracts of land given to them. My dream is that someday Cressida and Inez FinServe will have their campuses at the Financial District.