Monday, July 28, 2008

A high ‘Eye Q’ startup!

The real question is: will an eye for an eye work?

Enthusiastic entrepreneurs, astute strategies & a veritable stream of innovative products, bucked up by unique expansion plans – that’s precisely what made this company tick. And why not? Talk about the entrepreneurial hands behind it and we’ve six IIM-A passouts, willing to take the plunge & succeeding in the process. So it’s no surprise that this super six is yet another hit. Want a proof? Well, how about a start-up breaking even within the first three month of its establishment? And if you are wondering, which company we are referring to here, it’s Eye Q, the eye care company, which started its journey in January 2007 and within the first year of its operation has successfully earned revenue which overshot by 100%! Talk about over-delivering!

And we are not talking about some fresh risktakers here, for this team of six has an average work-ex of 10-15 years in Blue-chip companies. After reaching the pinnacle of their corporate journeys, they chose to kick their well-settled careers out of the window & tread the dangerous path of entrepreneurship. One of them is Rajat Goel. “Even though I was identified as a high potential manager in 2006 and was nominated as the best regional head within the firm where I was employed for three consecutive years, I always wanted to create something of my own…” opines Rajat, who had been working with Bausch and Lomb.

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Source :
IIPM Editorial, 2008
An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

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