OUR JOURNEY — CHAPTER 01
Before 2006 — The Beginning
Learning Before Building
Every journey has a beginning.
For me, the journey into technology and entrepreneurship did not begin with a business plan, investment or an established network. It began with learning, practical work, setbacks and the decision to keep moving forward.
A Different Starting Point
After school, I pursued my 10+2 MCVC vocational education in Electrical at Y.C. College, Satara (Yashavantrao Chavan Institute of Science).
My education at that stage was in Marathi. Alongside my studies, I also worked in an electrician’s shop. It was a simple but valuable experience. I learned by observing, working with my hands and trying to understand how things actually worked.
I later took admission to B.Sc. First Year.
The transition was difficult. I was coming from a Marathi-medium vocational background and had not studied 11th and 12th Science. Suddenly, I had to study science subjects in English.
I could not clear the year.
At the time, it was a setback. Looking back, however, it became one of the experiences that changed the direction of my life. Instead of stopping there, I decided to find another path.
Finding My Way Into Technology
I then chose to pursue a Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA) at the Institute of Management and Rural Development Administration (IMRDA), Sangli, under Bharati Vidyapeeth.
That decision opened a completely new direction for me.
While pursuing my BCA, I started helping junior students with their academic projects. What began as helping someone with a project gradually became an interest in teaching and technical training.
I was learning technology for myself, but I was also beginning to understand it by explaining it to others.
Learning While Teaching
From around 2003, while studying BCA, I started teaching through private classes.
I also taught MCA students at ICFAI in Sangli and Satara, worked as a Visiting Faculty member for B.E. students at Walchand College of Engineering (WCE), Sangli, and conducted technical training from home.
Teaching technology taught me something important:
“Knowing an answer yourself is one thing. Explaining that answer to someone else is completely different. Students would ask questions from different perspectives. Sometimes I had to go back, understand something more deeply and then explain it in a simpler way. That process made me a better learner.”
I was learning, teaching, experimenting and solving problems at the same time.
Beyond the Classroom
Some of the students and individuals I taught and mentored during those years later moved into senior academic and professional roles, including Heads of Departments (HoDs) and senior technology and engineering positions.
That has always been meaningful to me. At that time, I was simply teaching and helping people with what I knew. I did not know where their individual journeys would take them.
The experience taught me that knowledge can travel much further than the person who shares it.
The teaching and mentoring also continued for several years after 2006, even as I moved deeper into professional software development.
What Those Years Gave Me
Before the Business
There was no established business behind me.
There was no large team.
There was no ready-made roadmap.
There was simply a desire to learn, the willingness to work and the belief that I could create something of my own.
Those years were not yet the story of Trade Admire Group. They were the years that prepared me for it.
“Before I started building a business, I had to build myself.”
THE NEXT CHAPTER — 2006
2006 — The Foundation (Cavalry Archer Software — Satara)
The next chapter marks the beginning of my first software venture and the first formal step in an entrepreneurial journey that would eventually evolve through different stages into Trade Admire Group.