3. Banks only used have Accounts, but now everyone has.
Wasantha Weerakoone
Driving social impact through AI & automation | Winner Lifetime achiever award in ICT
Just before we went on purchasing our equipment, we knew we need a bank account. Those days banks need an introduction to open a current account. So fortunately one of my fathers brother was working in bank, he gave us the introduction, but bank manager wants us to come and explain why we need one.
So my self and one of my colleagues went to the bank, at that time I hardly speak English (not that I do well today) so when bank manager ask the purpose of account the only thing I could remember was uttering the word "merely" several times, he smiled and opened our account, but to don't know why I used that word merely.
We (means the board) got together to go and buy our welding transformer, one found a friend who has a jeep that we could borrow, one said I know how to get a discounted price, and others got in to the jeep because we knew it is going to be heavy. Suddenly it realize me having a team with different abilities contribute to the task. If all of us were trying to be engineers, we would have not run that task in a shoe string budget.
It took few weeks before we managed to collect all our basic hardware needed, now we need customers. We had long discussions what we going to produce, some one known to our team ask whether we could make grills for their newly built house. We said yes!!
Note :Next time I will write what happened when we produced our first product.