Anand Nataraj

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We always learn from past mistakes. We took lot of lessons from Office Warming Experience of CCS which happened by September’09. So this is how it happened and how we were tangled into a new mess;

• Kept all the Pooja things in office the previous evening.
• Kept a key with me as last time we all reached office and we had to wait for a person to come and open the office and it got delayed.
• The morning woke up took my bath and went to office as second person by 4.25 AM following the priest who came by 4 AM.
• To our surprise there was a grill gate for which i didn’t have the keys.
• Had to call the responsible person and falling prey to my parents piece of mind.
• Had to hammer and break the lock.
• Then things started after a delay of one hour.
• Then folks like Kannan, Bala, Vimala & Boopathi joined.

Overall what ever things we learn from experience there are always new things that happens unexpected. Finally everything went fine and we started operations of Cogzidel Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Chennai.

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Stated with high energy from the temple city of Madurai. Cogzidel Technologies Pvt. Ltd. has accomplished a milestone in its journey to glory. Here are some of the synopsis for CT;

• Started by a team of 7 energetic individuals.
  • Major Karthik
  • Sathick Basha
  • Senthil Guru
  • Bala Krishnan
  • Boopathi
  • Bala Murugan
  • Anand Nataraj
• Developed 2 Open-source products RBS & Beatz with more than 50,000 downloads till date.
• Developed Low cost specialty template selling website CogzidelTemplates.Com with more than 1,00,000/- downloads of free and low cost templates.
• Benefitted by low overheads in a Tier II city and passed the benefit to the customers.
• Inducted Mr.Kannan as director and into the core team.
• Served more than 400 customers in a short span of 18 months.
• Today we are into expansion spree and we have inaugurated our Chennai office with 30 seats.

I’d like to thank all the clients, all present and past employees, vendors and all stake holders who have contributed to this success. I wish to get same support from all the Cogzians to reach more milestone in future and reach great heights.

Here are some snaps taken during the office warming ceremony and inauguration by our CTO Mr.Kannan;

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It is always nice to see companies which you have whished to flourish well coming up in a great fashion. Yesterday was the office warming ceremony of Contus Support Interactive Pvt. Ltd.

This company was founded 2 years back by a bunch of my friends and today they have crossed a milestone in their life. When I was out from the company I founded and till I started Cogzidel I was consulting these folks.

I’m emotionally attached with this company as I was there since its inception and it helped me to divert myself from all the problems I was facing during that time. Even today I interact with the founders and pass on my suggestions and they reciprocate the gesture.

I must give credits to the entire founding team as they took the risk of quitting their high paid jobs from companies like TCS, Accenture, IBM, Southerland, Slash Support etc.

Today they have proved their critics wrong and have made their well wishers proud. Soon they will be moving to this cool office and I think it must be a treat for all their employees.

I wish Contus & team all the very best for their future endowers.

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My CTO Mr.Kannan has composed this great email.

Dear Cogzians,

I am very much delighted to make this announcement. Yes! Cogzidel Technologies, one year and 4 months old baby is now growing and prepared to take a next step !!

Guess what !! One year and 4 months baby since it babyhood nourished by mother(Madurai development center) , now going to make an attempt to start walking.

Still any Guess !! Ok. Let me have the proud to break the ice.

Next step for Cogzidel Technologies – Starting second development center in Chennai.

We are starting our Chennai Development Center at Admbakkam ( Near Chennai International Airport – Hoping we will have busy schedule to fly often J) from 22^nd Jan 2010.

This dream would have not come true but it happens only b’cos of you Cogzian. I am thanking individually every Cogzian.

We are just now making a small step forward and we have long journey to do, we as Cogzian have the commitment to make this organization as one of the best in the industry. We as team can rock anything in this world.

Believe it and Let us all fuel our energy  for the future to grow stronger and stronger, individually as well as a team.

Let us blow our bells and whistles to warmly welcome the new development center.

Thanks
Kannan

Great job Kannan. Long live Cogzidel!!!

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Wish you all a Happy New Year (2010). As everyone i want to star this new year with a list of Resolutions and let me list it;

• Make my first Abroad Travel this year.
• Start my Book on “Hardships of First Generation Actors” and publish it this year itself.
• Workout & Have a good physique.
• Getting a Pretty wife or a Girl Friend .
• Start Collecting Expensive Gadgets & Buying expensive merchandise.
• Become a Golfer.
• Become a Good Photographer.
• Mentoring Budding Entrepreneurs.
• Starting 2 more entities under Cogzidel Group.
• Creating a residual income other than my mainstream income.
• Learn swimming.
• Start Open Terrace Networking to help startups & SME to network with professional and fellow entrepreneurs.
• Join Chennai Tracking Club & go for more tracking.
• Long drives to Pondy, Madurai, Bangalore, Mysore & GOA.

Will post the result by the end of this year.

Wish you a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

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We are approaching the end of 2009 and this last day i want to recollect all the resolutions i had for 2009 and how successful am i in full filling those resolutions. Let me list the resolutions;

Resolution 1: Lead a simple life.

As per this resolution i wanted to lead a simple life where in i didn’t to board Auto-rickshaws, Flights, Taxi’s. So i travel through cheapest traveling option. To my satisfaction I can say I full filled this resolution as an individual. I think my CFO Mr.Bala Murugan is the best person to endorse this .

Then not to purchase Gadgets, expensive dresses etc. Again you can endorse my success in this by seeing my Mobile phone which i was forced to buy because my old one was dead. Yes i got a mobile for Rs.1800/- only.

Resolution 2: To Blog Regularly.

Again you readers can endorse me by seeing my Blog Logs. I’m happy to full fill this resolution too.

Resolution 3: To have more Vagabond trips.

Starting this year i had lot of Vagabond trips to places like KanniyaKumaru, Munnar, Coimbatore, Kodaikanal, Thirunelveli & Theni. Then after May i wanted to take a break for 3 months because of summer. Sadly this year it was a long summer as heat waves lasted till October. So i can say i was 50% successful in full filling this resolution too.

Resolution 4: Workout and have a good physique.

Let me confess i failed miserably in this . I worked out promptly till May then after that i went back to dogs.

Resolution 5: Build my Networks.

• With the help of Mr.Bala Murugan i got hold of lots of friends & acquaintance in business.
• I went to Madurai without any friends and today i can say i’ve atleast 100+ friends at madurai and thanks to Sathish & Maverick Fitness Center.
• Then with the help of my friend Roshan & Inshape Fitness Studio i got linked with lots of Celebrities.
• Lots of friends through Twitter, Linkedin, Peerpower & Facebook.

So i can give a pass mark for this resolution too.

Resolution 6: To get a groove into CCS as it is a new zone for me.

• After bootstrapping in a shared office, we have moved in to our own office.
• With clients in all the services (other than franchise) we offer.
• Breaking-even for last 3 months.
• Increasing the team count for CCS.

I must say I’m happy with this resolution too.

To conclude this is the first year where in i’ve a pass mark to my resolutions and also this is the first year where in i’ve a list of resolutions too. Now it is time to sit and rework on another set of resolutions and wish i blog the experience of coming years resolution same day same time.

Until then wish to be successful in accommpolishing next year resolutions too.

Wish you all a happy 2010.

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We are planning to post the services of Cogzidel Consultancy Services Press Release with a list of Bloggers to get prominence. We are also experimenting lot of things with this initiative. So, we are looking for help from Bloggers who can post our Press Release in their Blog.

We are offering a free Cogzidel t-shirt for this gesture. So how can you avail this T-Shirt?

It is simple. You have to shoot an email to anand@cogzidel.com and get the PR content and must post it in your blog. Again email the link to anand@cogzidel.com with your address. You will get the t-shirt within a week.

Terms & Conditions

• Bloggers from Chennai & Bangalore are alone eligible.

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Last couple of weeks has been aggressive in creating a Strategy for improving the Sales for CCS. So what are we doing for last couple of days? 

• Revamping Cogzidel.In Layout & a Slight change in Design
• Rewriting content for Cogzidel.In
• Moving from our own framework to Joomla
• Aggressively addling links in Directories
• Aggressively posting press release about CCS.
• Aggressively increasing networks in Linkedin, Twitter, PeerPower & Facebook 

All the above things are online initiatives. These are some offline initiatives; 

• Distributing Broachers to companies is Complex’s.
• Visiting companies directly after getting lead / link from friends.
• Planning to buy corporate gifts and planning to meet new prospective clients, client who have given good business & client who have not turned after enquiry.
• Planning to take telephone yellow pages and call all the companies and ask them if they have any need. 

We do all these with the help of two folks Senthil Kumar & Suresh who are in our incubation labs. They spare a quality time for CCS Sales other than working on their new startup. 

Now it is my responsibility to think more innovatively and document things that click so that it can be passed to my successor.

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Normally we create wired frames before we start working on a website design so that a client can foresee the skeleton view of his Web site layout.

What is a Wired Frame? 

A wired frame is a pictorial representation of a WebSite Design in a skeleton format. 

What tools are used to create a Wired Frame? 

Axure RP, Justinmind Prototyper, OverSite, ProtoShare, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Flash Catalyst and iRise. 

So, what we do at Cogzidel is we develop a wireframe design collecting information from the client and client can change the layout if it is not up to his expectation. 

Once the Wired frame is approved we will then continue with the site design.

Today morning I placed a request for a change in CCS site design & the design team approached me and collected my inputs and they have sent me wired frame for index page & inner page.

This is the wired frame for index page.

I was happy with the layout other than the Solutions block and I’ve asked to remove the solutions block. Now we know how the Index page layout looks like;

This is the wired frame for inside page.

I was not happy with the way inner page layout looks. It looks as a mimic of index page and I’ve requested for a complete rework. Asking my designers to put some thought and show some difference.

Now since this is a wire frame we didn’t loose much time. If we had shown a designed sample then the time wastage would have been much higher.

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Yes officially we about to Incubate 2 companies which are yet to be named. Businesses of those two companies are; 

• Newsletter Management Services
• HR Recruitment Consultancy Firm 

Both the companies are founded a team of two young & energetic entrepreneurs each. Both of them are confident on the opportunity their respective model offers. 

Now CCS will help these companies to Bootstrap where in we are; 

• Offering space in our office.
• Managing Support functions.
• Enlightening them on business functions.
• Sharing then resource likes Internet, Job Portal Account etc.
• Sharing their services with our clients where in we help then to develop synergies.
• Exposing them to our Vendors as they can exploit the benefit we gain and from economies of scale. Eg: Both companies together needs 4 notebooks and they can expect discounts as they are buying 4 in one shot. 

These are our first two companies from our Incubation Labs which is operating under my direct supervision and will document all the learning’s from this initial experience. 

Hope these two companies will have an identity (Company Name) in a day or two and will keep you all posted once they are out with their Name, Logo & Tag Line. I wish this small beginning goes a long way and creates history.

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