Meeting Shradha Sharma always like getting the positive vibes she is spreading with every entrepreneur on this Earth. 14 Editions TechSparks 5 Lac visitors. 2200 Speakers. This is becoming the “The Voice of Entrepreneurs“. I know her from the day she started YourStory Media with a vision : “Let’s do a story” and she keeps …
India has a large pool of resources, that can run your startup profitably
You can run the startup “bootstrapped” way. Here are three things very much possible by using resources. 1. Scale the business without hiring people. I built an “entrepreneurs community” twice in my career, once for my startup in 2015 and the second time for others in 2020. In both times, I scaled the business into …
Doing research, building a team and having a mentor – Mantra of Successful Startup- says Rakesh Sidana at It’s That Easy Podcast
Rakesh Sidana is talking about entrepreneurship journey and what his 3rd startup Meri Garage is doing. He adviced to young founders who are facing difficulty in running the startups and planning to shut down because of lack of funding support. Talking about Meri Garage, he says : Meri Garage isn’t just transforming the nuts and …
Make Your Startup Profitable. Let Investors chase you, says Rakesh Sidana (Funding Meet at IITD)
Rakesh Sidana was invited by EDC India to speak to startups and budding investors. The session was organized at Indian Society of Technical Education in IIT-Delhi campus. The main topics for the session were : how to take funding, why startups fail and what is difference between Equity and Debt Funding. Rakesh Sidana has become …
Never miss an opportunity that comes your way says Rakesh Sidana (Guest Speaker at NIT Rourkela)
In 2016, one day, as usual, I looked at my mobile very early in the morning. There was a message from a Non-Friend and I clicked on the cross (X) by mistake while reading it and it disappeared. FB shows messages with Cross (X) who are not your friend (privacy feature) they can only chat …
“Selling is Not My Cup of Tea”. Is it true? Let’s find out.
1997, I left my three-month job because I could not sell even one modem. It was door-to-door selling. I used to knock on the door and started pitching anyone open their door :D. I thought, “Selling is not my cup of tea” and I left the job in 3 months and started searching for an …
Startup Never Fails – a mission
Startup Never Fails or Startup Always Fails 🙂 A Mission – #SideHustle (old pic 2018) Let’s find out from my side hustle…. In 2016, I started “Startup Never Fails” – a campaign, an event to let every entrepreneur know the “reality” of startups and their common mistakes. In 2017-2018, that campaign reached Bangalore, Mumbai, and …
Success is just another name as “persistence”
Success is just another name as “persistence”. Here is what happened in my life… (1) In 2011, If I couldn’t send a “Best Wishes SMS” to someone……..I could never find my 2nd investor. I had saved someone’s number in my contact list from TiE Delhi-NCR event and I used to send “best wishes” messages at …
Visionary is not an astrologer but they can see what is invisible to others
My father, he built business what nobody did, not even thought of starting. He built businesses like installation of tubewells, owning a fleet of new DCM Toyota mini truck, spare part shop and he was always first to start in our small town – Jalalabad. Why did he try to become first to start? I …
Founder’s Journey is Startup’s Journey – says Rakesh Sidana at Amity
I was speaking to B.Tech/M.Tech students at Amity University with their Alumni Panel in a internship fair. I have been preparing mechanics for digitization from 2008 when even single independent garage was not thought of generating business from online. We aggregated around 5000 garages across India on a platform ( MeriCAR ) in 10 years. …