Bootstrapping Zero to 7M from Kolkata: FusionCharts CEO Pallav Nadhani (Part 2)

Sramana: What did your father do for a living? Pallav Nadhani: He dabbled in a lot of things. He worked on some commercial projects such as building water treatment plants, and then he started helping companies move from paper accounting to computer accounting. He is one of the bestselling authors in India for accounting books.

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Sramana Mitra: What are the competitive dynamics of these cities? When you’re setting up a center in Mangalore, is it very competitive? Are there other Indian companies setting up operations in Mangalore? Gopinathan Padmanabhan: Yes, there are. All of the key players are aware of the dynamics, the cost structure, and so on. Everyone follows

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Bootstrapping Zero to 7M from Kolkata: FusionCharts CEO Pallav Nadhani (Part 1)

Pallav Nadhani is the CEO of Fusion Charts, a software suite that allows creation of interactive charts for web and enterprise applications. Pallav completed his primary schooling in Bihar before moving to Kolkata to work in his father’s web design company. After a few years he launched FusionCharts. This story showcases entrepreneurship in Kolkata, India.

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Outsourcing: Gopinathan Padmanabhan, Executive VP and Head of Global Delivery, MPhasiS (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Are most of your financial services customers U.S. customers? Gopinathan Padmanabahn: As is the case for most of the typical Indian IT services companies, our revenues are split broadly across the U.S., India, and the rest of the world. The U.S. constitutes about 65% of our revenues. India constitutes about 15% to 17%

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