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Happiest Minds Tech eyes public listing in about 7 yrs: Ashok Soota
Bangalore-based Happiest Minds Technologies Pvt Ltd will be publicly listed in about seven years once it achieves annual turnover of over $100 million, its founder and executive chairman Ashok Soota said here today.
Monday, November 19, 2012 | Source: The Economic Times
At 70, a new venture and a Happiest Mind
Indefatigable, focused, perfectionist. Those are some of the wrords that have been used to describe IT industry veteran Ashok Soota. A man who is comfortable being at the helm of affairs, whether as CEO of an established company or as an entrepreneur chasing his own dreams. Mr. Soota’s fledgling Happiest Minds, founded last august, is his second entrepreneurial venture and is well on track to achieve $100 million in the shortest time for an IT services company.
Monday, October 22, 2012 | Source: Deccan Chronicle
Lessons from a serial Entrepreneur
In the venture community of Silicon Valley in the United States, I am told their most favoured investment candidates are failed entrepreneurs. I am not sure this is true,but presumably this is because the failure has generated a greater hunger to win and the entrepreneur would have learned from his or her mistakes. On the other hand, I can say from my personal experience in starting Happiest Minds that having a track record of success does make it easier to attract capital and talent.
Saturday, September 22, 2012 | Source: The Economic Times
India has not seen a new IT company in 10 years.
At 70, most people who have made their name and money tend to their gardens and do good with their charitable foundations. Ashok Soota, uniquely, while doing both, still finds the motivation and energy to launch and build new companies.
Saturday, September 08, 2012 | Source: The Times of India
IT’s year of happiness, and some serious businesses for Happiest Minds
It’s a great fund to start from the scratch. I certainly enjoyed the experience. When I look back, in one sense it looks like yesterday. On the other side, it also gives a sense of feeling that “Oh God, we have done so much; how could we do it in such a short span,” Soota said in an exclusive interaction with Business Standard.
Monday, September 03, 2012 | Source: Business Standard
In search of the Happiness Code
“I have set up Happiest Minds with 12 co-founders. All of us have the same objective. We are clear that people are key to any service organization. Very few companies are built on the belief that happy employees can give rise to happy customers. Our entire organizational focus is builtaround this theme.”
Monday, September 03, 2012 | Source: Financial Express
“A Cloud-based CRM application, integrated with POS systems, allows a retailer to make sure that a sale is consummated by offering real-time contextual offers and suggestions that take into account the customer’s prior history and social media activity. Another benefit in having a Cloud solution is that it allows the retailer to expand in a much more cost-effective manner.” says Salil Godika, of Happiest Minds Technologies.
Monday, August 20, 2012 | Source: Retail Today
How Ashok Soota’s ‘Happiest Minds’ managed to succeed in a $100 bn IT industry
“I started this company with an aim to focus on the new disruptive technologies, which include cloud, analytics, big data, mobility and unified communications. To use them to create transformational solutions for our customers and be able to interfacing these new technologies with older legacy systems – that I think is the new story. One year down the line, I would say we have made tremendous progress. We see large traction in retail, travel, hi-tech etc. Telecom is another area where we have customers. We got 45 million dollars of funding and have 24 customers across the world in all businesses.” says Ashok Soota, Executive Chairman, Happiest Minds Technologies.
Thursday, August 09, 2012 | Source: The Economic Times
Convergence of Technologies to prevail
“As collaboration becomes social, as user experience goes mobile, and as computing infrastructure and platforms migrate to the cloud, the convergence of these technologies will create the next big wave in the IT industry” says Salil Godika, CSO and CMO, Happiest Minds Technologies.
Monday, August 06, 2012 | Source: SME Channels
Beginning a Successful Entrepreneurial Journey: Ashok Soota
How to begin a successful entrepreneurial journey? How to transform an idea into a successful enterprise? Most businesses are founded on the basis of an idea. The idea could be a new product, a new service, a new business model, or capitalizing on new technologies. As in case of Happiest Minds the technology we focus on is cloud, mobility, social media and analytics. There has to be something new in the sense that it triggers an opportunity.
Friday, August 03, 2012 | Source: Silicon India
