Shirish Phatak is the Founder and CEO of Talon and has over 15 years’ experience building scalable, high performance systems that solve mission critical information technology challenges. Shirish was Chairman of the Board and Co-founder of Velocius Networks and also co-founded Tacit Networks, a pioneer in Wide Area File Services. Shirish earned an M.Tech in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology and an M.Phil in Computer Science from Rutgers University.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Steve Jobs
- Bill Gates
When business started difficulties overcame:
“Getting through the immigration process but we also went through a lot of things around defining the business, we changed our business motto, even our products 2 or 3 times, just looking for the right market or the right fit, the basic ideas remained the same but it was how do fit in the market, which market do you go after and that for us was a big challenge in the beginning”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change) Book by Clayton M. Christensen
- Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers Book by Geoffrey A Moore
Favourite Quote:
“Ideas are easy, implementation is hard”
Recommended Online Resources:
Linkedin – is a business- and employment-oriented social networking service that operates via websites and mobile apps.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Perseverance is key, you have to be able to get through the hard times the tough times the outright ugly times, if you can’t do that, those times will happen I don’t care how successful you are there are going to be some bumps, they may be smaller or larger but you have to be able to handle them. You should do what you like, it’s your vision, it’s your heart, it’s your baby if you will and that’s important, that sense of ownership for me is super important”…[Listen for More]
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Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.” John Lubbock
Other Quotes From the Chat with Shirish Phatak:
- “Knowing the compromises, so engineering is all about saying this is not the 100% solution it has to be the 80% solution, it has to be the 90% solution so that part of the implementation, knowing when to make the compromises, knowing where to say this is good enough, that I think is hard, the idea is clear, it’s crystal clear but often implementation is messy and may not get to 100% and should not in most cases get to 100% and that balancing act is so important”
- “Without the ability to get through the tough times you will not get to the good times”
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