ApartmentAdda Interview & an update

TheIndianStartup.com interviewed us recently - you can read about the interview in their blog.

Now for the update, my startup is no more a sole-proprietorship. It is now a Private Limited firm - 3Five8 Technologies Pvt. Ltd. When I started - sole proprietorship made sense - because it did not cost anything, nothing to register and I can concentrate on building the portal.

However, after the launch and after winning Adda's first premium customer and the subsequent customers I dealt with all had this uneasiness doing business with a sole proprietor. I understood that sole proprietorship was not sufficient any more. Finally kicked off the process in April sometime - took close to 2 months in my case because of various reasons.

Having a Pvt. Ltd. company gives confidence to my customers.

And it did cost quite a bit :

1. It costs quite a lot to register.... around 27k.

2. Every year the company has to submit its audited finances - even if it makes a loss. This is again around 25k every year.

3. You cannot simply shutdown a company. The procedure is very cumbersome and one has to get NoCs from every possible nook and corner.

4. Had to deposit 1 Lakh as initial investment - or show assets worth 1 Lakh to start.

I cannot imagine what the formalities will be for making a Public Ltd. company. If I do it one day I will blog here :)

Are you wondering what is 3Five8? - There is a sound reasoning behind the name but I am still debating whether to explain it or let people keep guessing what it means !








Comments

  1. Hearty congrats Venkat on achieving a milestone. I cannot recall many companies (actually only one - 3M) whose name start with a digit.
    Any case, 3 5 8 is part of Fibonacii series. Just like the series, wishing that you revenues of every year will be sum of last two years (and the profits too) (actually, it would be a interesting problem to see if both top and bottomlines can achieve this at the same time?)
    For more on 3-5-8, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-5-8

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