Entrepreneur, Mentor, Author
Entrepreneur, Mentor, Author
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 …
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 …
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 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”. 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 …
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 …
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. …
Commenting on Linkedin article “How can you make your passion profitable as an entrepreneur?” Rakesh Sidana quote “Passion is something you strongly believe in what you are doing. It is never started to make a profit but with a purpose to create huge value for others. You may or may not transform into a business. …
Wealth is Value Creation, that is compounding itself with TIME to create big value, that you can satisfy by your efforts to convert into unbelievable Money. The ET Wealth article was published in 2012 when he found a new way of generating new business for repair centers and also was able to sustain my business …
I shifted to New Delhi from a small town in 1995 and I have seen India from No-Internet to the UPI era now. Found myself chasing new technologies, writing codes, database connections and making websites and apps. I worked for disrupting technology companies and launched my own companies when I thought I need to serve …