Outsourcing: Arijit Bhattacharyya, CEO of VirtualInfoCom.com (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: This was a game that you designed? Arijit Bhattacharyya: Right. SM: And you sold it in the Kolkata market? AB: Kolkata and outside Kolkata.

Outsourcing: Arijit Bhattacharyya, CEO of VirtualInfoCom.com (Part 3)

SM: Got it. What software were you using, and how were you able to afford it? AB: We didn’t use any kind of software. I had to write software to create animation. We didn’t have any kind of software for that. SM: Interesting. You’re quite savvy technically.

Outsourcing: Arijit Bhattacharyya, CEO of VirtualInfoCom.com (Part 2)

SM: They were farm workers? AB: Yes. But that boy has talent. He is an extremely good painter. I found him while roaming near the river bank and saw him trying to draw a picture of a couple of fishes near the river. I asked him if he would like to learn drawing and animation.

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Outsourcing: Arijit Bhattacharyya, CEO of VirtualInfoCom.com (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Virtual Information and Communications (VirtualInfoCom), based in Kolkata, India, provides its customers with services like game development, simulation, Windows Phone applications, mobile applications, iPhone applications, Android games, mobile gaming and ad promotion, ad commercials and short films, corporate films, animated movies, music videos, visual and special effects, software development, Web page designing,

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Bootstrapping to $6M from Durgapur, West Bengal: Pinnacle CAD CEO Bimal Patwari (Part 7)

Sramana: What was the most substantial change that occurred with your business after 2007? Bimal Patwari: After 2007, the biggest change was the size of projects we worked on. We began working on airports, hospitals, and convention centers. That required large teams of up to 40 people working on a project at the same time.

Bootstrapping to $6M from Durgapur, West Bengal: Pinnacle CAD CEO Bimal Patwari (Part 6)

Sramana: Were you able to change the layers of service you provided from 2-D to 3-D? Would you talk about the technologies you were standardizing on? Bimal Patwari: Absolutely. There were several companies that offered modeling software. However, Autodesk has a worldwide presence. Everyone works on their platform. We also bought some other software solutions

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Bootstrapping to $6M from Durgapur, West Bengal: Pinnacle CAD CEO Bimal Patwari (Part 5)

Sramana: Aside from having a loyal workforce, you have also created a workforce that operates in a niche market. There are not many places in India that your workers are going to be able to move to and leverage American architectural knowledge. Bimal Patwari: That is a factor as well. We invest a lot of

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Bootstrapping to $6M from Durgapur, West Bengal: Pinnacle CAD CEO Bimal Patwari (Part 4)

Sramana: Why did you elect to establish your U.S. office in Houston? Was that where you client was based? Bimal Patwari: Our client was in Tennessee. I elected to establish the office in Houston because I had friends there. Houston in an engineering hub, and there is a lot of oil and gas industry there.

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