Meeting with Kris Gopalakrishnan (CEO - Infosys)

Arvind G S (CTO - Foradian) and Vishwajith A (COO - Foradian) met Kris Goplakrishnan (CEO - Infosys) and discussed about Foradian's achievements and strategies for future. Kris was really impressed with Project Fedena and the strategy of opensource business model implemented by Foradian.

We asked for his advice and we were lucky that he provided us with lot of information which can be used to succeed in our present projects and deals. We felt the following advices are applicable to all startups similar to foradian. So sharing the valuable mantras.

Advice #1 : Learn to Sell

He mentioned that inorder to sustain a business, other than building a great product we should "sell early and sell often". Even if you dont have any product, if you can sell, you can run a profitable business.

Advice #2 : The founders should Sell

It is not enough that your marketing team makes the sale. If you want your company to successful, the founders should sell. And need to learn the art of sales in the hard way

Advice #3 : Focus

Foradian is slowly entering to ERP developments in the million dollar range and Kris adviced us to focus on a certain area. Since we are already successful in education sector, he told us to focus on erps for universities, group of institutions etc.. In short his advice was to concentrate on a single thing instead of diversifying to multiple products and services.

Other than the above advices we got advices specific to our current projects and government deals, which we are not revealing here. Anyhow it was a great experience to meet and talk with a Man who is part of an empire they built from scratch.