So we all know how people talk about Entrepreneurship being the backbone of the Indian Economy and business; how even the largest of the largest companies in India are family owned, entrepreneur driven companies; how the Indian market now is opening up more and more vibrant spaces for its new entrepreneurs to play in – yes, we all know that. But how does it feel to be the driving mind, the creator, the backbone of the economy? And how is an entrepreneur like anyway? Does she chill in her pajamas while making loads of money out there? Does he work like crazy and still doesn’t get as much returns as he’d like but still carries on? I asked around a couple of initiators about how they started with this gamble, and how it paid off!
Rishav Kumar, an undergraduate student of Shaheed Sukhdev College of business studies, observed that the University of Delhi lacked an unbiased media house that connected the colleges and gave the students a chance to express themselves. He is successfully, within less than a year, running the University Express, which is the media partner of almost all the fests happening this year.
THE NEW AGE ENTREPRENEUR
Article by - Sukanya Mukherjee, Miranda House
Chance got him intoconcert photography, and for the first six months, he did free work and grew his network before Dhruv Sethi Photography happened!
"I received appreciation wherever I went but there was no support. Nobody was ready to invest. I was mad enough to give it a shot:
University Express where 'Express' doesn’t stand for the speedy train but the 'express'ions that are required to change the society as a whole.”
Facebook page, but I soon realized it sounds unprofessional and looks very stupid on a visiting-card. I made my own website www.dhruvsethi.com and that was, I guess, the first actual sensible step”
“People started talking and I started getting offers, that’s when I realized it was time to start. I started with a
Snehaa Challa, a student of Sri Ram College of Commerce, University Of Delhi, has stepped up in a benevolent attempt to make lives of thousands of outstation students, who come to this university every year, easier. With her simple and novel idea, she collaborates with hostels and paying guest accommodations in and around North Campus, to provide students a quick fix to the problem of finding a perfect pg! And what is a better name for this effort than the easy “www. findyourpg.com”!
Delhi University has a huge problem with sustaining all its students, providing them accommodation, so a lot of students resort to living in pgs and flats around the campus. We just wanted to provide them with an easier alternative instead of looking around everywhere. We had gone through the pain of it all. And we didn’t want others to do so too.”
wasn’t easy of course. It took a lot of time and we had to take care of a lot of logistics to get ahead with findyourpg.com.
Dhruv Sethi, a student of Journalism and communications at Amity University, started clicking pictures at 16 when his father bought him a DSLR.
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