Hello Friends,
I am glad to let you all know that I have been honored by the Vocational Excellence Award by Rotary International District 3291. It was presented to me at a function at Rotary Sadan, Kolkata on 25th October, 2008.
I will like to thank Rotary International District 3291 for their recognition. My heartfelt thank you everyone, who have supported me achieve the same.
Regards
Abhishek
It is the first official award I have won for my entrepreneurial efforts!
Indus Net Technologies has been selected as the #1 IT SME (Small and Medium sized Enterprise) in India 2008 by Dun & Bradstreet in a glittering Award Ceremony in Mumbai on 30th September 2008.
For more information on the Award, please visit: http://www.dnb.co.in/SMEAwards_2008/
Indus Net Technologies has also been prominently placed among the Emerging SMEs of India publication, which was unvieled on the same day.
I will like to thank our 5000+ clients who put in their trust in us (even though 90% of them have never met us) and the team which delivered and fulfilled every promise that Indus Net Technologies made.
We look forward to grow at a steady pace and achieve many more milestones in days to come.
So keep checking!
I live in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
My office address is:
Indus Net Technologies
Module 532, Fourth Floor, SDF Building
Sector V, Salt Lake, Kolkata 700091
West Bengal, INDIA
Office Board Phone Numbers: +91-33-23576070, 32902857
Please call up / email to fix an appointment before coming to see me.
Note:
I frequently travel to Chennai, Bangalore and London for work.
If you are in any of these places, just drop me a line and I will inform you before I am visiting these places, so that we can fix up a mutually convenient time and place to meet.
I can be reached by email at talash@indusnet.co.in
Sorry:
Though I try my best to answer all communication sent to me, there may be scenarios where I may not be able to respond back (generally if I am overloaded). Please excuse me for that. It is despite of my best efforts and has nothing to do with my interest level in your email.
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I do not do sponsored posts on my blog.
Here are some testimonials from some of my connections on Linked In. If you wish to add your comments / experience with me, please feel free to leave a message.
“Abhishek is very focused , calculative & clear. he is very professional and value time & money.”
Chandradeep Bardhan, Sr. Manager, Info Edge India Ltd.
“Abhishek has been a source of inspiration - in work as well as a friend . His vision and involvement in growing a thriving Web and Internet marketing firm is commendable on so many levels.”
Arindra Datta, CEO, WEBSYS
“Abhishek is very innovative and professional in the offshore web developing business and he has been engaged in the offshore web developing business for more than 10 years. He is so strong business-mind that he is leading his team and helping his customers to achieve business success.”
Colin Chen, Manager of Project Office, Ericsson China
"Abhishek is a very passionate entrepreneur. He is an excellent executor. In a very short span, he has achieved a lot, both in terms of professional growth and personal growth. I have been working with him on different projects, where I was a consultant, and he was an entrepreneur and executor. One of the most important qualities of him is to take an idea and execute it so perfectly such that, looking at it, I get awestruck, and think - Is this idea, I conceived?”
Joydip Chakladar, CEO, Allindialive
“Abhishek helped us put up our site ResolveQuery.com. He is not only a detail oriented person but he also has an excellent understanding of his domain. It is a pleasure to be associated with his company.”
Top qualities: Personable, Good Value, High Integrity
Anup Agarwal
“Abhishek is truly an entrepreneur with high degree of business maturity reinforced with strong customer orientation and technical experience. While he can carry his team with him, he has a strong sense of transparancy and dedication.”
Amitabha Chattopadhyay, Senior Consultant - Software Process, QAI India Limited
“Abhishek brings with him a very strong grounding in internet business and internet marketing. He is not only involved in developing latest trends in internet business but is equally adept at executing these strategies. In my dealings with him, I have found him to be very receptive to new ideas and very open about developing businesses. I wish him best of luck for future.”
Top qualities: Great Results, Personable, Expert
Anuj Gupta
“We use Indus Net for all our web design work and I whole heartedly recommend Abhishek and his hard working and friendly team.”
Top qualities: Great Results, Personable, Good Value
David Armstrong
“Abhishek is a forward thinking person with a keen eye to details and a go-getter. His team produces brilliant quality work. They can handle any-size project and finish that as per agreed schedule. I have reviewed several of his projects and have always been thoroughly impressed. Feel free to assign any project to them and you can sit back and relax.”
Arun Agrawal, Director, Ebizindia Consulting Private Limited
“You will not find a better team then this one. Abhi is a leader of an office of the "Best of the Best". Indus Net is by far more than just a company; it has become an extended family with all focus on end results.”
Top qualities: Personable, Good Value, High Integrity
Daniel Connor
“Abhishek gets the job done on time with great attention to detail, I feel he and his team can design/develop anything I can think up.”
Top qualities: Great Results, Expert, High Integrity
Glenn Scott
“Abhishek Rungta is a true entrepreneur having started Indus Net Technologies many years ago and grown it to a mid size IT services company with multiple offices in India and UK. I used the services of Indus Net Technologies for my venture ResolveQuery.com and was truly impressed with their professional approach. As a person Abhishek is a gentleman par excellence and has often gone out of his way to help me in different ways. Such a mindset is a rarity these days !”
Top qualities: Expert, Good Value, High Integrity
Sundeep Tibrewal
“Abhishek is an authentic giver and a great connector. He is genuinely interested in helping you find the solution that best matches your needs, and will go to great lengths to do so, either in person or by finding the right experts.”
Pierre Leonard, Owner, virtual-words.com
“I have used Abhishek’s services many times over and found them to be phenomenal in every respect. His team is extremely efficient, lightening fast and exceptionally effective, even when working on high complex projects/issues. They are true Pros! Based on my experience, I totally recommend Abhishek’s services without the slightest hesitation.”
Shridhar Kumar, Director, Definitelyweb Technologies (India) Pvt. Ltd.
Several months ago I hired a full time member of staff within Abhishek’s team to work on some specific SEO projects. Everything was handled with real professionalism and focus.
The quality of the work and communications were excellent and regular, I can’t remember an instance where I had to chase up on anything and while this project is now at a close I am sure that I will rehire his company again in the near future.
Overall a great example of finding quality partners in Black Star.
Highly recommended
John F Galvin
Abhishek epitomizes what networking is all about. He is obviously passionate, committed, and definitely warm-hearted, a keen listener and generous in his time, referrals and advice. My advice is don’t pass up the opportunity to meet Abhishek.
Denis Cahill
Abhishek was very kind to help me in sending some information which I was looking for. I am happy to find such a good human being.
Nikhil Wad
It was great to meet Abhishek again recently and see how focused he is on delivery for his clients. I’m delighted to know Abhishek and I wish him every success. If you are thinking about how to apply the internet in your business then it’s definitely worth talking to Abhishek straight away.
William Buist
I have used the services of Abhishek’s company several times now and Abhishek leads from the front in finding solutions. Abhishek goes the extra mile to reach out and communicate with customers and to ensure the smooth running of projects. I look forward to many more successful projects alongside Abhishek.
Paul Lyndon
I just joined Ecademy and was thrilled to receive a wonderful email from Abhishek giving me guidance and help as a new rookie to this network. He was very caring to take the time to give me so much advice and thank him for his willingness to make a difference to me. I am looking forward to networking and learning more. Thank you!!!
Adele Muzik
I am pleased to be part of Abhishek’s network. He is a man who loves to help others with his many gifts. He is caring and wants to make a difference to peoples lives and businesses. I am looking forward to learning more. I wish him every success.
Robert De Souza
Abhishek was the first to welcome me into the Ecademy network and his contact has been very productive for me. Having used his services, I have found his expertise of great help, all delivered on time and on budget and most importantly with the greatest level of professionalism and courtesy.
Many thanks.
Sanjay Ashar, Captive Creation.
I met Abhishek in London! He is a contact that you cant miss! Great and kind networker he embodies the charm and good manners of his native land! I will be very happy to see you again soon!
Victor Marques
Great!
Way to go Abhishek.
You deserve the success as you’ve slogged to get all that you have! he’ll always give you the most practical and effective advice!Kushagra Shah
My company had used his company’s service before even Abhishek is on Ecademy. At the time, the IT knowledge of his teams was very bad, and although Abishek was using WordPress for his personal blog at the time, none of his employees were unaware of WordPress. But look at his business today! They use WordPress for their corporate blog! They focus on W3C and web standards!
I was totally disappointed by the teams a year and half ago, but Abhishek is a real man who takes care his client complaints seriously into his business to make it better. I see a growth with his business.
Takuya Misawa
Abhishek is a top bloke - I recommend both him and his company.
David Armstrong
A great connector in India!
Abhishek connected with me on Aug. 1st 2006.
As I was away for a holiday I only answered on Aug. 22nd.
Less than a week later he referred a potential client to my translation company, and this referral lead to a major assignment.Abhishek, thanks a million time. If contacts of mine are looking for a great connector in India - I definitely know I can send them your way!
Pierre Leonard
Abhishek is a very helpful person, giving sensible & practical advice & information, but with a humane side to it. Certainly made me think about a couple of issues. I value his input
Warm regards
Nicola
A great client!
Simon Ellinas
A young (well, relative to me!) entrepreneur with a very impressive track record.
Keep up the good work!Kind regards
Duncan Taylor
What a charming professional man always looking for a way to help you, making him a must have connection. I just hope I can find a way to help him.
Nigel Whittaker
I recently asked Abhishek for some help. His response was timely and very professional.
I look forward to establish links with him.Mia Bennett
Abhishek is a cool headed guy with a clear concept. I bounce all my big-ideas with him before I implement them and he has never failed to give me a cool twist to make the idea work better.
His company does excellent graphics work and I can swear by his quality of work and professional attitude!
Arun Agrawal
I recently got a caricature done by Simon Ellinas. It rocks What do you think?
I highly recommend his service. Is is a real pro!
Hi Folks,
Gmail is fast.
Gmail is easy to use.
Gmail is virus and spam free.
Gmail is web based and universally accessible.
But, for most internet users, the biggest turn off is the fact that you cannot use your own domain name with Gmail. In fact no free webmail service is known to me which provides this facility as on today.
However there is a workaround! You can use the “cool and fast” interface of Gmail and send/receive mails using your “professional” email ID using your own domain name.
Enjoy the productivity enhancement Gmail offers to you without losing on your brand image.
Regards
Abhishek
Hi Folks,
Google is doing everything in their capacity to weed out spam and return meaningful results for search queries. However it seems that they missed on an important aspect!
Concept
A good quality website will definitely have proper (if not accurate) spelling and grammar. Using advanced spelling and grammer checking routines, it is very much possible to weed out spam and provide higher rank to high quality websites.
Benefits
This approach has many advantages:
1. Quality will get preference over quantity
2. Sites which are ranked lower due to poor quality spelling and grammar have a chance of imporving ranks by correcting spelling and gramatical errors. This will initiate a rush to improve user experience and we will be able to see better quality sites all over.
3. Sites which use more “generic terms” and less “proper nouns” will get higher rank as they are simple to understand and are written with a generic audience in mind.
4. Spam sites which simply puts in pages generated from search results will get totally eliminated as they will have broken sentences.
5. Links farms, FFA, Generic directories can be identified and ignored unless specifically requested by the user.
Implementation
The implementation can be further enhanced by setting up a baseline and quality benchmarks, just the way Google did for link popularity (Page Rank).
Sites can be evaluated on a regular basis based on the following parameters:
This data can be collected over a period of time and can be be used to determine how the site has improved or declined in quality.
Can it be implemented?
Now the question is - “How difficult is the implementation?”
I have recently been watching some of the changes introduced by Google in order to refine their ranking algorithm:
a) Penalty being imposed for duplicate content
b) Reciprocal links getting lesser weightage than one-way links
c) Usage of Latent semantic analysis (LSA) to find relevant related results
If we consider the total processing power required for each of these refinements, we can safely assume that they have enough processing power to implement spelling and grammar check.
I will not be surprised if Google is already working on this. Therefore it is advised that try to improve the above mentioned parameters before the magical google update strikes you!
I hope to see “quality based ranking” in action soon.
Abhishek
Hello Friend,
Thank you for visiting my profile. For your convinience, I have divided my profile in the following sections:
Who am I?
I am a 30 year old entrepreneur from Kolkata, INDIA. I have been in business since 1997 and have turned around several successful ventures in the internet service domain. I take pride in the fact that I have grown my ventures organically without any external capital. Besides this I enjoy managing my ventures and this is the reason I never sold a company that I created.
I have done my education from South Point High School. I went on to do my Bachelors in Commerce with Honours in Accountancy from St. Xaviers College, Kolkata. I finally did my MS in Multimedia Technology from University of Bath, UK in 1999-2000.
I have special interest in software engineering, marketing management and strategy planning (this comes with a natural instinct).
I am recipient of Gold Award of Duke of Edinburgh’s Award from HRH Prince Edward during his visit to India in 1997.
About my work / career
I started my career as a part time office assistant in Duke of Edinburgh’s Award - Kolkata Chapter; at an age of sixteen while in high school. I am fortunate that my first experience in professional world was in such a friendly and informal environment. I used to help my seniors in managing organizing events (like trekking trips) and helping award participants in various ways.
When I went to college, I managed to get a job as a Sales Executive in a Direct Sales Agency of CitiBank. It was a totally new experience where I travelled almost all roads, streets and lanes of Kolkata. I used to sell loan accounts against equity and had real fun doing that. I did this for almost one year.
In 1997, I was in college. Internet was new in India and I got hooked to it. I liked what I experienced online and immediately felt that this could be my future. I started earning pocket money by installing internet connections (good old dial-up days) and help people learn how to use internet. Soon I started selling IP telephony. I could see endless possibilities and I started learning about websites and web-servers. I spent few months studying about how internet works and finally started Indus Net Technologies in September of 1997. It started off in my bedroom with a PC, which was gifted by my father.
I went to UK for my higher education in 1999-2000 and my sister looked after my small business which was hosting around 1000+ websites. I got several job offers after my Masters degree, but I decided to return to India to persue Indus Net Technologies.
I struggled for two years due to the global economic slowdown. Fortunately my persistence paid off and in 2002 Indus Net Technologies started growing and managed to hire three employees. I started taking my business seriously. And I continue to do so..
More about my work…
Name of companies: Indus Net Technologies, Indus Net Academy, Customer First
Area of business: Web design, Web development, Internet marketing, E-learning
This year, we are celebrating 10 years of Indus Net Technologies and I have almost 250 full time team members standing with me who work from Kolkata, Chennai and London to supports more than 5000 clients in 40+ countries. I play an active role in the company and act as the top management providing strategic roadmap to my capable management team. I am sure they will keep growing Indus Net Technologies and maintain highest ethical standards while delivering best value for money to thousands of customers worldwide, making it the largest Internet service company in the world by 2015.
Indus Net Technologies is a tightly knitted nuclear organization. It has a centralized management team to deliver strategy, marketing support, sales, account management, quality control, infrastructure support and financial planning.
We have several nuclear teams which are specialized in their area of business and provide professional, high quality service and customer support. Our nuclear teams are agile and customer centric. They innovate and leave no stone unturned to delight our clients. They are flexible as a new exciting business, and still retain the core benefit of dealing with a stable and large organization. Precisely our clients get the best of both worlds! We work as a integrated internet startegy partners to our clients and provide them services through one or more of our ventures!
Our businesses are "logically" and "functionally" divided. They work in the same premises and interact with each other. Therefore collaboration on projects is in fact common in every assignment we take.
Today Indus Net Technologies has the following departments:
I draw my satisfaction from the fact that, till now I have managed to build a medium sized respectable company in a business, which was not recognized as an industry way back in 1997. Even today very few people consider it to be a serious business. I believe that any business can be scaled up to great heights if one has the capability to innovate, create value and think beyond the obvious.
Check out our corporate group website In a recent survey conducted by CNBC-TV18, ICICI Bank and CRISIL, Indus Net Technologies is among the top 40 emerging small and medium sized enterprises in India. Indus Net Technologies has been rated as Top 100 SME in India by CRISIL. We have also been rated as SE-2A i.e. "High Performance, High Financial Strength" organization by CRISIL in their official credit rating.
Some of the brands that I own (which are not spinned off into seperate companies yet) are - design2please, script2please, promote2please, submit2please, content2please, logo2please, templatekingdom, easysiteedit, clickworkforce, dedicated hiring, etc.
What can I offer you?
- A helping hand
- Advice on internet marketing, web design, usability, open source programming
- First hand experience of an entrepreneur and business advise
- Connections in India
- Help in planning your trekking trip in Himalayas
What Do I Want/Need
- Web design / development business
- Connections in corporate world for medium - large outsourcing deals in creative services and/or open source programming services sector
- Practical advice from management experts about managing large scale IT organisation and best practices that they know of
I am also looking forward to buy small and medium sized IT companies in simmilar area of interest in India and/or UK. So if you of any such opportunity, please feel free to recommend that to me.
My hobbies & interests
I have been very active in trekking & hiking between 1991 and 1999. I have participated in 40+ treks and expeditions in various capacities (i.e. member, team lead and instructor)
I have interest in:
Subjects: Vedic mathematics, Software engineering, Marketing, eLearning
Books: Adventure, Mountaineering, Business
Movies: World War II, Bollywood, Any good comedy movie
Games: XBox360
I have spoken on entrepreneurship and open source technologies in several education institutions including IIT-KGP, IIM-Joka, Pailan Institute, ICFAI, IIAS. I take pride in my association with organizations like TiE-Kolkata and NEN of Wadhwani Foundation.
I also actively support Kiva.org due to their innovative way of helping the needy ones!
My family
My family lives in Kolkata.
My family includes my parents, wife and a younger sister (who is happily married).
My father owns and operates his own business of Raw Jute (Star Brand) and Jute Seeds (Kissan Seeds). He is also Chairman of Indus Net Technologies.
Places I have visited so far:
