Screwed Up Business
It’s been some time. Laziness, a Tata Indicom connection and business kept me away.
Over the last few months, me and 4 of my partners have always kept our eyes open looking for new business opportunities around our locality. We live around Dayanand Sagar College area and with the number of good looking babes around keeping our eyes open is not too difficult.
Flashback:
March, 2006 at IIML: 6 gonna be MBA’S had decided not to sit for placements and would join hands to start their own company. As part of the trust building we had a lot of heart to heart open discussions on our past, present and future.
As part of these discussions an interesting story came out. It was about the past entrepreneurship effort of one of my partners
He was staying in a large house all alone in Mumbai. Some facts of the matter maybe added or omitted due to incomplete knowledge of the actuals.
Now it came to a situation where a lot of his friends would hop into his house with their girlfriend or other variations to use his bedroom for about half an hour.
My business partner decided that nothing comes free in life and decided to charge Rs 50 for half an hour of use of his bedroom. (A poor pricing policy considering it was a monopoly service and the customers were generally desperate)
End of Flashback
Restaurant, MBA Coaching Centre, Placement Services, A Discotheque were some of the ideas that came about.
But with a two storey house where one bedroom is rarely used you can guess which idea seemed the most tempting. Even before services have been launched we get excited customer queries. Sorry we will not be taking customers without launching the services so till then hold on.
Over the last few months, me and 4 of my partners have always kept our eyes open looking for new business opportunities around our locality. We live around Dayanand Sagar College area and with the number of good looking babes around keeping our eyes open is not too difficult.
Flashback:
March, 2006 at IIML: 6 gonna be MBA’S had decided not to sit for placements and would join hands to start their own company. As part of the trust building we had a lot of heart to heart open discussions on our past, present and future.
As part of these discussions an interesting story came out. It was about the past entrepreneurship effort of one of my partners
He was staying in a large house all alone in Mumbai. Some facts of the matter maybe added or omitted due to incomplete knowledge of the actuals.
Now it came to a situation where a lot of his friends would hop into his house with their girlfriend or other variations to use his bedroom for about half an hour.
My business partner decided that nothing comes free in life and decided to charge Rs 50 for half an hour of use of his bedroom. (A poor pricing policy considering it was a monopoly service and the customers were generally desperate)
End of Flashback
Restaurant, MBA Coaching Centre, Placement Services, A Discotheque were some of the ideas that came about.
But with a two storey house where one bedroom is rarely used you can guess which idea seemed the most tempting. Even before services have been launched we get excited customer queries. Sorry we will not be taking customers without launching the services so till then hold on.

5 Comments:
wow! from comp science geek to football captain to l&d exec to iim ka funda puttar to enterprising hindustani businessman plying the oldest ever trade.. :))...
bad news at the kop.. heavy defeat in the merseyside derby :( .. b'lated happy onam btw.
hmmmmmmmmmmmm...
interesting...
doode,
what are you guys getting into?? 8-\
pimping ... aha
remembered this post when I was watching "metro".. :D
karthik
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