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Launch of Shapia Software - my new venture

September 30, 2008 2:45 am sharat My Entrepreneurial Journey  Email This Post

The long awaited dream of mine is over. After years of gaining knowledge and trying to decipher the various intricacies of software corporate business, eventually I have been able to start on my own. I have started a software company, by the name - Shapia Software Solutions Private Limited. After 6 months of incessant efforts, the tree has started bearing fruits, and I could give shape to my dream. Juggling between job and business, I don’t know how many times I wished I had 48 hours in a day. I wanted to give my best to both the current job, and my business as well - eventually I had to squeeze in time from no where, literally running around and my mind going to find a single vacant escape route. After giving a formal and legal form and name, I have decided to quit from my job, and run my business. When I look back now, for the time I spent in last 6 months, is, all I can say is it has been worth for my patience and perseverance. There is nothing like seeing your own baby grow up and take a shape which you have had always envisioned. During this course of my transition, there has been many people who had come all the way, and tried to help me, some even criticizing to the effect that they asked me to resign from my idea of starting on my own. Initially, I had thought that the toughest part would be raising the seed fund for the business, but actually after some struggle in the initial period, I found out that there are more people who are willing to invest their money in the right channel, than those looking to get the funding. But beware, there will be tons of investors who will just rub off your idea, and doom your confidence to the lowest level. I will write a separate article on my rendezvous with the investors - I am sure, you will love that, as some of the incidents have been really funny.

I would like to share a brief profile of my software company here:

Website:

www.shapia.com

www.shapiaconsultant.com

Please note the website is still getting refined, and you may find some issues in the website.

About the Company:

Shapia Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd. is software company, based out of India’s Silicon Valley, Bangalore. The company is driven by it philosophy of bringing technology to the masses. Shapia Software operates in the form of three different strategic business units - Software Services, Recruitment Services and Product Development. Shapia Software is a next generation software company, where in we understand the customer needs, hence our solutions are fine tuned towards their needs. Hence we have special customer task force teams to address the issues raised by customers. We are a company for the customer and by the customer. We cater to customers in India, US and other global locations. We provide services to customers of varying size, with incessant and uncompromised quality. Shapia Software is a process driven company. The company’s goals are driven towards maximum customer satisfaction.

Vision:

To be a value driven organization, perfected by process, integrity, principles and always directed towards customers interests.

Mission:

To bring technology to the masses, and to create an online presence for every viable business entity in the world.

Our Core Values:

Integrity

Customer Focus

Process - Oriented

Value Driven

Our Strengths:

Professional Competence

Quick Response Time

Uncompromising Quest for Quality

Long-term orientation

Ethical Standards

Our Business Philosophy:

Our Business Philosophy is to become the “Walmart” in the field of Software Services. We want to bring technology to the masses. We feel that there is still a huge hiatus between technology and its adoption in the day to day life of masses. We want to bring about a change in this pattern, where in people can take advantage of the technological advances at a price which is affordable for them. Hence we want to follow Walmart’s principle of doing mass and volume business, where in the customer is the winner. We understand and it is a know fact that the profit of margin in technology projects are huge. We intend to change this scenario, so that the technology implementation becomes acceptable to all and at a highly scalable level. We intend to put our focus on small and medium sector enterprises, because these are the sectors, which have been widely ignored by software companies for long. Though our focus is on SME sector, but we do welcome customers from large enterprises as well for any kind of software solutions, that they might be looking for.

Management Team:

Sharat Chandra Thakur, Chairman & CEO

Bharat Thakur, Director

Piya Bhattacharya, HR Head

Avin Jain, Advisory Board

Pratik Dasgupta, Advisory Board

Strategic Business Units:

Software Services Unit

Recruitment Services Unit

Product Development Unit

BPO Unit

Services:

In software services, we provide following services:

Application Development

Website Development

Business Intelligence

Flash Design

Content Management System

Web 2.0 Applications

Community/ Social Networking Portals

E-Commerce

Graphic Design

Open Source Customization

Internet Marketing

In recruitment services, we provide the following services:

Staffing

Recruitment Process Outsourcing

Turnkey Staffing Assignments

Executive Search

Contract Staffing

Employee Assessment

Campus Placement

We have a product development, which focuses on developing cutting edge products in the market. Presently, we are working on creating a software for the education industry. We would like to keep the product information confidential as of now.