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From Adversity to Affluence …a Great American Success Story! by Kapil Manocha, Consultant, The Franchise Consulting Company business. Ash was always an academic over achiever and graduated from one of the most prestigious colleges in India with an MBA in 1994. He worked in the coporate sector in India for several years thereafter. In 2005 he was working for a multi national company that transferred him to the US for an assignment. Ash loved his life in the US and decided to call this home. He got married to his beautiful wife, Hema, in 2010.
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have the good fortune of calling Ashwin Bhatia not only a friend, but a brother. Ashwin, or Ash as his friends call him, and I have known each other for as long as we have been alive. We went to the same schools, hung out with common friends, and many a time got into trouble together. Ash comes from a family of entrepreneurs, but due to some financial adversities early on in life he was unable to get into
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Ash and Hema are the quintessential corporate couple. Well paying, high pressure jobs, 70 hour work weeks, board meetings, power point presentations, excel spreadsheets, beautiful suburban house, and 3 wonderful kids. One day, during one of my vists to their house, they started talking about what if one of them didn’t have a job someday, or what