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Well let me first clarify that I am not into ‘Story’ telling business. It seems that the keyword ‘story’ has taken prime spot on my blog. Anyways.. whatever it is, its for GOOD! Amidst my own story-telling campaign, we just got featured on the entrepreneurship & startups portal YourStory.in.

Click here to see the coverage.

Hearty thanks to YourStory team for giving us the space & spotlight!

PS: My next blog is supposed to be ‘Story of iBranch – part 3of3’… Jesus Christ!! Got to find a synonym of ‘that word’ :D

In part one of this story I narrated how we started off with the product model and managed to get our first customer for our software product called “Informer”, and how we had to dump the whole thing. In part two I’ll tell you how we managed to convert our proposition into a web service. Honestly speaking, during those days I sometimes used to feel like Robinson Crusoe :D

Well, it didn’t take much time for the Gyan to dawn upon us that its got to be a web based service. After all if the clients need 24x7 access to the software and they can’t maintain the server at their end, SaaS is the obvious way out. It was Dec 2006 and our to-do list was pretty clear – get a server, a good broadband connection, a ups, register a website name.. and we are done! But unfortunately that needed money (how unfair).

Call it serendipity or the benefit of marketing ‘Informer’, we received a call from the office of the then vice-chancellor of technical univ of MP, Prof. P.B.Sharma, to work upon his pet project...