Entrepreneur, Mentor, Author
Entrepreneur, Mentor, Author
The Conquest’24 Launch Event was a spectacular gathering at The Circle Work, Gurgaon on April 13th, igniting powerful conversations and connections. This event also kicked off registrations for the 20th edition of Conquest. The evening featured an insightful fireside chat with Rakesh Verma founder of MapMyIndia moderated by Nemesisa Ujjain. Mr. Verma shared an inspiring …
Rakesh Sidana met Dinesh Agarwal at TiEcon Delhi. The annual event for startups and investors. Mr. Dinesh Agarwal is founder of IndiaMart. He talks about India while discussing with Rakesh Sidana at the event. “India doesn’t need motivation, it’s enough here, India needs to know “how to do” to make it next level as already …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …