Part One: The Marriage.
During that high-level management meeting between “Groom Inc” and “Bride Inc" before the “Acquisition”, when my “would be dad-in-law”, CEO of Bride Inc, explicitly asked if I had any assets in MY name , I was more than happy to declare that I owned some 5 , 6 sites.
“ Very nice to hear. In Bangalore?”, he added.
“mmmmmmmm.. Yeah.. In Bangalore also.”
“ Done, I’ll call Shastriji and have the marriage date fixed”.
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Part Two: After marriage!
My Better Half : “ Well , back then, you had mentioned about some sites in Bangalore which you own right?”
My Best Half (Oh, that’s me) : “ Yeah, now I have 7 :)”.
Her: “ Wow !! Amazing. Can we go there. I just wanna have a look at them :)”
Me: “ Sure, we need not have to go anywhere! Its right here. I shall show you from here itself!”
Her: “How?” , confusion was evident in her word.
[I turned my laptop on and …]
Me: “ Look, these are mine :) … www.hitechalarmapp.com , www.onehellavesite.com , www.contestsaround.in , and two special sites called blogsites! http://sheketimes.blogspot.com and http://anoopdixith.blog.com are some of the sites I own :) !!!!”
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Part Three: Spun Off !!
My worse half (to the judge in the civil court during the divorce case hearing) : “ Your honour, this guy cheated us all. He told he had some sites, but he was referring to those crappy websites. I don’t want to spend the rest of my life with this dumb web site developer. Grant us the divorce.”
My worst half (Yeah that’s me) : “ Yes your honour. She is right ”.
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Part Four : Rise of phoenix !!
Headlines in ITCrunchNews.com: “ samcool.com becomes the no.1 player in freelance SaS market. Alexa places it above Blogger.com in the most visited sites.”
Headlines in HotTechNews.com: “ samcool.com earns an estimated 5,780 USD a day. CEO Anoop Dixith tops Forbes list of fastest growing TechBusinessmen”.
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Part Five: Negotiation is a part of life!
My Ex-wife(through an SMS): “ Congrats Anoop. Very happy for you. You don’t know how much happy I am now. You know, we are still very good friends even after our divorce. Isn’t it? :) . I congratulate you when something remarkable you achieve, like this one. And do you remember, you too complimented that I‘ve lost lot of weight, which is indeed a noteworthy achievement. So don’t you feel we could still patch up our differences and get going together? No, I just told what I feel, it’s not a necessity for me, but just..ya.. you get it na. After all, negotiation is a part of life.”
Me to myself : “ She is right”!
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Part Six: Negotiation is a part of life - Part Two:
Me, to her ( After re-marriage): “ You know, now I own 11 sites in total”
Her: “ Really nice :) Now I am really happy about them. But what does your samcool.com actually do?? You know right, I’m not from technical background, so dint get what those online newspapers were telling.”
Me: “ Nothing. Infact its just a static page. To be frank, those two online newspapers ITCrunchNews.com and HotTechNews.com are also mine. So I could write anything in them. They are just spoof articles. People read it for fun. Kind of satire websites. Like the world famous TheOnion.com, and our Indian version FakingNews.com etc. But I’m really glad you were impressed by my sense of humour and re-married me :). After all, negotiation is a part of life.”
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