A walk alongside an entrepreneur by passion
The UVCE entrepreneurial bandwagon has a big list and one more leaf out of that book is, Mr. Trivikram, who set out from being a shy, reserved student at UVCE to a very successful entrepreneur. It has been a wonderful transformation and he attributes the reasons for his transformation had the roots in UVCE and says, “I am so proud of today and wouldn’t have existed if there was no strong foundation and the skeleton of pillars laid by UVCE, if not for which I would have laid the bricks in a wrong place and my career wouldn’t have been as strong/good looking as it is today. This is what UVCE and its environment did to me and my subconscious without even my notice.”
He being a small town boy, he found it difficult to gel with the bangalorean atmosphere and there was the role of UVCE which provided the right environment for him to mingle with fellow classmates and enhance his confidence being in tune with what is expected at the societal level. He remembers all those memorable, joyous moments at the blink of his eyes and he is proud that his batch-mates meet often and remember those nostalgic incidents and bask in today’s success.
After being in the SSI and MSI for about 6 years, he took the plunge to start his own venture, T S International, which designs and manufactures industrial transformers upto 1000KVA & reactors upto 10000A of both Oil cooled & Dry type.
Immediately in the financial year 1997 – 1998, it achieved a small annual turnover of INR 8Lacs with 3 client base, with a span of about 10 years company crossed the annual turnover of INR 40 crores with addition of another 400 client base Some of our prestigious clients are BARC, HAL, BFW, ACE Designers, Indus Mobile Towers.
As is with every entrepreneur, he faced many a challenges that he took in his stride like funding as during his time the banks were not so open in encouraging people with finances, acquiring customers through calls, mailers and striking the deal, customer retention after meeting their expectations and requirements, be aware of the regulations that are imposed on the products, maintaining the supply chain management, importantly, surviving and soaking the competition with big heart and getting rid of the psychological if’s out of the mind. It takes one person to display lot of qualities before he can have a good and contented life.
He says – “For any business or a start-up to succeed, it is very necessary that one must have a never say die attitude, facing challenges head-on and play the waiting game, one should never compromise on the quality of the product and stay true to the word of assurance you provide. One must have the zeal to learn from the mistakes, adapt to the situation but not just lose out and always should sense the requirements of a customer. You should manage your finances well and it is important the cash-flow is given utmost importance. And most importantly, one needs to be rejuvenated, must have fun and should like what he is doing.”
And also he adds – “One must pursue whatever he/she likes. But before getting deeper into the business, you must make an analysis of the market and it is better to have experience of working SSI/MSI industries and most importantly have realistic and achievable expectations.”
It was a memorable information edit that we have done for this article. Team Sampada thanks Mr. Trivikram for his valuable time and insight into the travails of an entrepreneur and we wish him all the success in all his ventures.
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