Some succeed because they are destined to, but most others succeed because they are determined to. Determination is that powerful device, that drives effort in the right direction and before one realizes, the goal is achieved. Parth Joshi’s journey is an example of the same, where he consistently strived to make it big and didn’t let obstacles define his path. He has learnt lessons from the setbacks and has started again with the right spirit to live his dreams.

• How and when did it start?

Parth, the founder of an IT solution firm, initially started with a caste based matrimonial site which didn’t work well, so he dropped the venture and completed his master’s degree, instead. Later, he joined Finmart, a financial marketing company and along with this job he came up with Krishna Enterprise- a consulting firm, wherein they develop software, ERP systems, and other IT solutions and from the funds therein they market kanssfer.com. Krishna Enterprise has spread its roots in the market quite well within a couple of years and in 2016 he launched it’s baby product kansfer.com. He didn’t approach any third party for funding, so technically it can be called a bootstrap company for now. Since this is his second venture, he believes that this has worked in his favor as he is well prepared for most of the foreseen and the unforeseen challenges.

• What was the motivation behind it?

Parth has developed a stable platform for his business after combating the mistakes that he and his team made in the past and all the knowledge that they have gained from it. This has also inspired him to develop a product that he is fond of as a creator with his newfound, better perspective of business and something that satisfies the need of the surrounding people. Often using cloud storage, needed paid subscriptions and was cumbersome with technicalities. The main idea behind this product was to make it easy for people to send large files up to the size of 2-5 GB, without costing them an arm and a leg. So kansfer.com was born as the solution to transfer large files through mobile, desktop, chrome apps and many other platforms. Many renowned applications, have major limitation with the quality and the size of the files, when it comes to file transfer, but kansfer.com sorts this out.

• Challenges faced:

Parth believes that being in a city like Surat is one of the biggest challenge in itself because it breeds businesses and emanates the urge to be one’s own boss. The lack of suitable human resource is a perpetual challenge and added to that the ones that are actually good with technical skills don’t stay in the city for a long time. So it is rather a herculean task for his firm, to manage and retain them. Another issue he faces is that the people in Surat are not that conversant with the technical domain thus his firms, serve the niche segment of consumers with posh requirements and needs and that’s quite in contrast to what people here expect and accept of businesses like his.

• Future plans:

Parth believes in steadily carving the future, by aiming to build a product which would scale up globally. He wishes to gain traffic, initially and then might go for a venture capital funding in later years. He is quite optimistic and believes that his company should expand in the international market because lately it has succeeded in gaining good traffic globally, with almost no marketing.

Our last story in this blog series is coming soon. Stay tuned.