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Manish Sharma
Building a Retail Business in India: Manish Sharma, CEO of Printo (Part 7)
Sramana: What was your next step? Was your first store a proof of concept to raise more money? Manish Sharma: I had enough money to do something else, but not enough for an entirely new shop. I decided to put up a smaller shop inside a larger store. I clearly identified the demand and need
Building a Retail Business in India: Manish Sharma, CEO of Printo (Part 6)
Sramana: Did you fund the business with just friends and family? Manish Sharma: I did have two angel investors when I started Printo. I met them at conferences and gave them a basic elevator pitch. I was looking to raise 2 crore rupees but ended up raising 1.4 crore rupees. I did not raise a
Building a Retail Business in India: Manish Sharma, CEO of Printo (Part 5)
Sramana: What happened to that business? Manish Sharma: We were caught in the crash. Not a lot of people remember how fast that happened, but I definitely do! The company did not go anywhere. Sramana: What did you do after the dot com crash? Manish Sharma: We had 40 people in India at that point
Building a Retail Business in India: Manish Sharma, CEO of Printo (Part 4)
Sramana: Where you trying to develop another company after you returned to India or did you decide to go back into services work? Manish Sharma: I continued forward with my goal of establishing a product company. I finally came up with a product idea in the AI space which had been a passion of mine
Building a Retail Business in India: Manish Sharma, CEO of Printo (Part 3)
Sramana: So you partnered with Informix? Manish Sharma: Yes, we partnered with Informix. They could not meet the deal requirements without us because they were a product provider, not a systems integrator. The database was a small part of the overall project. We had to submit our own credentials to win the bid. We worked
Building a Retail Business in India: Manish Sharma, CEO of Printo (Part 2)
Sramana: Why would the National Stock Exchange commission ask you to build a mission critical transaction system? Did you have credentials to gain their confidence? Manish Sharma: They were not our first customer. We were able to build a good portfolio before we started working on those high profile projects. Our first customer was Indian
Building a Retail Business in India: Manish Sharma, CEO of Printo (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Manish Sharma is the co-founder and CEO of Printo, a Bangalore, India-based company specializing in high quality printing. Manish is a serial entrepreneur who began his career in 1995 as an early member of the startup team at Rediff.com. He went on to be the co-founder of DBS Internet
