Monday 2 July 2012

The Start...

It was on Jan 20,2011 that I while walking out to my car, told my wife "I think I am going to resign today". It was not a total shock to her as I had been thinking, discussing / Arguing about this for weeks if not months with practically everybody in the family and some really close friends, and slowly it had built to be a case of "When". The job I was to leave was a job of great authority and respect, I had been in Graycell Technologies Exports for the last 6 years and had always been the "TOP Guy" there with my current designation as Delivery Head, so you can guess I was set quite comfortably set there and I rarely had any problems, yes the job was a neck breaking one, but I enjoyed it, there where fires and there were rocky moments but over all a great ride and this would not be complete without mentioning Munish Jauhar my CEO/ Mentor/ at times Tormentor, he taught me so much that I can never thank him enough for it. well getting back to that cold day in January. When I got into the office a meeting was called to discuss come office matters and all through it I was thinking how to I tell Munish... so when every one disbursed I quietly mentioned to Munish I would like to resign, I gave my reasons and in the end I offered a 60 day notice period so that company had apt time to find someone  to take over from me. I must say I was hard leaving the Job but I was focused on setting up my own shop and I wanted it to do ethically no client pouching or any of the other hanky panky stuff. 


Jumping to the fateful day in March when I was relieved and In my mind "Anthem Works" was the name I wanted the company to be, it had a decent ring to it and was kind of open ended where I could be looking at more avenues than just software development alone, but I was not to be the MCA (Ministry of Corporate Affairs) did not allow the name as I had listed software development as my primary target and thus I switched to "Anthem Infotech" so on 26th April 2011, Anthem Infotech Private Limited was registered and for me that was the first milestone. 


I had a decent reserve of cash that would last be around 4 months if I made no money at all and then a about $4,000 to setup a office and start a small operation. first month I got all the things in place like furniture (4 tables and 4 chairs), Internet, 2 Pcs and my old trusted laptop. 


That was the start...