The year of 2016!

Anirban Majumdar
UrbanPiper
Published in
2 min readDec 24, 2016

It’s taken us all of a year and a half to get such a simple, and yet so formidable a task, like creating a functional blog off the ground. It would be fair to say, that to qualify this effort as functional would be a bit far-fetched as of now. But well, a worthy start it is.

At this point in time (last week of 2016), it’s interesting to look back and jot down the things we did — a bit of good, a bit of bad, a bit of both.

We found renewed purpose in a new direction — order management.

  • The team grew from the meagre band of 4 individuals to a thriving bunch of 20 people! We now boast of a tech team (8), an operation & support team (5), a sales and biz dev team (3) and our very own designer (1)!
  • Signed up some wonderful merchants — Papa John’s, Chili’s, Mamagoto, Speedy Chow, 48 East, Kanti Sweets — for whom we power all things related to online ordering.
  • We’ve processed in excess of 250k online orders to help our merchants make northwards of INR 7 Cr in revenue.
  • We moved to our very own office!
Our new spiffy office!

2016 has been quite a calamitous year on many levels, but we’ve got to feel charmed about what we’ve gotten ourselves into. For 2017, we’ve got some fancy things in store and I’m super excited about the team going all for the win!

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Anirban Majumdar
UrbanPiper

I build things at UrbanPiper. I’m learning how to scale a startup.