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. …
Passion is believing strongly in what you are doing, it doesn’t start from making profit
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
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 …
Success will be defined by you, not by others – 3 Life Lessons by Rakesh Sidana at 50yrs
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 …
Entrepreneurship is a language of Innovation – Rakesh Sidana
Entrepreneurship is a language of Innovation – according to Harvard Business Review. There was a survey in which respondents talk about innovative ideas in the absence of quantitative market or company data. With only their informal observations and INTUITIONS. Scientists believe that entrepreneurship is the informal language of the way people THINK about New Ideas without …
Exuberant Ray of Innovation – Rakesh Sidana
(Interview@ NIT Rourkela) Nov 6, 2016 | Read: 4 minutes Author and Inteviewer : Pradhyumna Rao and Dibya With the onset of the largest techno-management fest of Odisha, Innovision 2016, Team MM caught up with one of the guest speakers, Mr. Rakesh Sidana. Not only is he an entrepreneur with firm instincts , and an …