Building up on ideas at iweekend

Building up on Ideas : Stage 2 from Dreamcast.in on Vimeo.

Final presentation at iweekend

Idea 1 - Final Presentation from Dreamcast.in on Vimeo.

My conversation with iweekend team

iWeekend Delhi - In Conversation with from Dreamcast.in on Vimeo.

Guest Lecture at AKG engg college

During my participation in ISBA in Feb 2010, Dr Paul, Dean at AKG College of Engg visited us and liked our designs and then invited us for a guest lecture at his college.


On March 12,2010, we visited AKG College of Engg at Ghaziabad on NH24.I It was around 20 kms Noida and had good infrastructure and a dedicated faculty. 


I spent around 30 minutes talking about myself, electronics and embedded and my favorite project Joy-n-Freedom. During Q&A there were no queries from students, however during the demo of our products, there were lot of queries. 


Students at AKGCE were really wonderful, intelligent and working on lot of new project. Only thing there (as well at most of other engg colleges) was lack of interaction with industry and they were working on old and obsolete technology.


However I saw dedication and keen interest in students welfare in HOD, Electronics Mr Chopra's vision and plan.


I am sure under his guidance, students of AKGEC will create wonderful results.



My best wishes to faculty and students. I am also looking for closer interaction and more projects along with them.


Swati Mehta and Pankaj Talwar assisted me in the presentation. As usual there were cheerful, happy and eager to work and do what ever is required without any issues. 


Copy of presentation is here


http://www.slideshare.net/vinay3065/akg-120310

Yourstory.in interviewed me

Read the online interview at following link. Yourstory in an online portal and showcases entrepreneurs. Ove 4000 entrepreneurs in various fields are interviewed.  Yourstory also sponsors various events at E-Cells of various colleges.

http://yourstory.in/entrepreneurs/tech-entrepreneurs/3161-vinay-chaddha-founder-gvc-systems-pvt-ltd

So if you have any plans for becoming an entrepreneur then this site provided lot of information related to funding, resources and networking.

Maggie's 2nd Birthday

Two years back on Jan 18,2008 Maggie came into our home and hearts.  I still remember that day. Upasana declared that she has selected a small little cute puppy and will bring her home. It was a very cold day. Maggie was shivering with cold and looked very sad. I told Geeta that she is upset as she is away from her mother.   Geeta looked at small kid away from her mother for first time  and felt motherly love. She took maggie into her arms and started crying with joy. That night none of us slept properly. We were checking Maggie after every few minutes.  Our life is no longer same.  She prefer sleeping on my chest with my arms covering her body.  For last 2 years, she is the source of unconditional love and affection in our family.  She is popular in our neighborhood with all kids. She is invited in all birthday parties. All small children in our locality who used to call us "Taya Ji and Tai Ji" now call us "Maggie ke Papa and Maggie ki Mummy".  She is real  Joy-n-Freedom  for us. We wish her a long and happy life.

No Past, No Future, Only Present

My last seminar ( Wed, Jan 6th,2009) on INVENTED LIFE was rocking. Ritu Shri, our coach explained in so simple ways that there is no past or future just the present.

She said that our past memories are simply neurons firing now and our hopes for future are nothing but neurons firing now. She explained that when we fear, it is nothing but our neurons firing and then we do not take action.

I could make our why people do drugs or indulge in alcohol, well it simply suppresses neurons firing.

I also learned that we do not take action due to fear.  And it is possible to take action despite fear.  Just take action.

Now about results,  how this seminar helped me in my business -

I usually do not approach potential customers or ask for payment upfront from my existing customers. I always fear that they may not buy my services or think I am greedy or short of money or does not have trust on them. During the seminar I saw that this is not real but just my neurons firing due to some old events.

On 6th late night, I emailed one of my customer that I am not interested in working with him, till he clear all my pending payments. I prefer relaxing than working and keep chasing for payments.

On next morning (Jan 7th,2009) I picked up the phone and called one of my prospective customers and asked for  a meeting. I met him, invited to my office, make a presentation. I told him that business will start with an advance payment.

On Jan 9th, both of them have made payment to me.

What next
I will be sending proposal to two more customers in this week. Will post the results next sunday.

This seminar has also helped me in my personal life. More about that in my next post.

Three Idiots - A wonderful Movie

Last week me and Geeta went for a afternoon show of Three Idiots. Like other two movies of Rajkumar Hirani, This also touched our hearts.

I cried a lot, laughed at few scenes and overall enjoyed the few hours at AUDI 4 at  SPICE MALL, Noida with Geeta. During intermission we had large pack of popcorn.

Few things in our life matched with the movie characters.

Upasana  switched to Post Graduation in Psychology after completing her graduation in Electronics. She is the only one in her class with no prior experience while all other students studied Psychology for 3 to 5 years (3 years in graduation and few students also studied Psychology in +2) and is rank holder.

Geeta had gone thru a difficult phase in life and then she re-started her life with full energy.

I lost every penny, did not give up and after a bad financial phase lasting for four years, again started earning profits.

Be it movie or our life or life of so many other people that we know of, one thing is common

FORTUNE  FAVORS THE BRAVE

will be celebrating 25 years of marriage this year

I will be completing 25th marriage anniversary this year. Just wanted to share some of the photographs and my views.

I got married at the age of 24 years and was working with DCM Data Products . Geeta was 23 years old and was working as Maths teacher at Manav Stahli School.

I had ideas of low cost, no dowry marriage,. However Geeta's family wanted a normal conventional marriage.

Result was what you can see in the enclosed photographs, I was in normal clothes, no coat or tie, borrowed shoes from Vijay, there was no loud music from a band, no decorative lights at our home,  day marriage on a  sunday afternoon, no religious ceremonies at our home.

While Geeta was dressed like a bride and their family followed all religious ceremonies in their family.

After marriage we were literally a text book example from MAN ARE FROM MARS AND WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS.

However over last 25 years, we have learned the art of understanding the difference between people from mars and venus.

I have a question

We go thru pre-school, school and college and do lot of professional courses and learn every thing like English, Maths, Electronics, Engineering, Medicines, why not have formal class room training on personal relations and how to handle marriage?

National Animal of India - Tiger or Mouse

Let me share a small even that happened around 16 years back.

It was a sunday afternoon in the month of November in Delhi. Me, Geeta and Upasana were going to Pragati Maidan in a auto-rickshaw. We were enjoying the  chilly winter after noon with a warm Sun and a pollution free area of Delhi Cantt.  All of us were looking forward to fun and care free enjoyment at Pragati Maidan.

And then we saw a bicycle rider suddenly turning to right and a fast moving truck applying brakes.  Truck had hit the bicycle rider and then hit a tree on central verge. Both truck driver and cycle driver were badly hurt but conscious.

People stopped and watched the accident scene but no body offered any help to the accident victims. I with the help of auto-rickshaw driver moved them to the vehicle we were traveling in  (that is auto-rickshaw) and asked Geeta to move to Pragati Maidan along with Upasana and we went to near by army base hospital.

After some time,  Geeta and Upasana also reached Base Hospital courtesy another good samaritan. We moved out after giving our name and address and feeling happy.

Few days later, an army major visited us to thank us as the bicycle rider was a army jawan.


Almost every one with whom we shared this incident advised me not to help accident victims. The logic of well-wishers was simple - it is a bad world, your daughter and wife need protection and care.


My logic was also simple - I want my daughter to be a TIGER and not a MOUSE. And they only way is to be TIGER myself. 


Since then, every time I see an accident victim, I stop and help to best of my resources. My well wishers keep telling me not to do it.


So What has been your experience. Do you find people around you take the role of TIGER or MOUSE when faced with a crisis. Share your views.