Letsintern.com is the brain child of Rishabh Gupta, Mayank Batheja and Pranay Swarup. These three had known each other since their time at AIESEC India. They quit their blue chip jobs (at Alcatel Lucent, NASSCOM Foundation and Network 18) and started a dream that ran on the fuel provided by the youth. Unlike other intern/jobsites 3 years ago, Letsintern aimed at making the Indian student corporate ready. Their dream was realized after constant rejections, bad revenues and website malfunctions! They persevered on and now Letsintern stands where it does, with over a lac students registered on their site and companies like Reliance, adidas Originals, HCL, HDFC, Channel V, Viacom 18, Diageo, Flipkart etc as their clients!
Aniket Bera, a researcher/PhD student at the Graphics Group, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has had a business idea touring his mind for a while now. In India, tourism is the largest service industry, with a contribution of 6.23% to the national GDP and 8.76% of the total employment in India! Saarthi has an objective to build a one stop platform for tourists; it connects buyers directly to a potential ecosystem of small/micro-scale shops, tourism service providers and everything else that one may need. His project is on-going and the break point might take a few years more. But he is patient and is determined to succeed. Richa Malhotra is an active collaborator in this project.
These college students plan to give it all away to the deserving heir, once out of college. But of course they will continue to remain the guiding forces and the CEOs of their start up babies. Mostly Harmless Ink is a society celebrating theater and films, which was founded by students and theater enthusiasts of various colleges – Gideon Mathson, Purav Goswami, Gagan Narula, Guneet Narula and Vikalp Mudgal. Even as I write, they are presenting the first of their produced films in the Puri Film Festival – BYOFF (Bring your own film festival!). They have traveled with their plays and have come a long way in their endeavors.
finding a society that enabled us to take part and in the long run, has enabled us to take our own stand on theater, films and literature.”
“We wanted to perform a play together at theAmerican Centre. But there was no entry for students from miscellaneous colleges, so we resorted to
“All three of us had taken leadership roles while pursuing our education, where at a young age we learnt to run and lead an organization. Having worked in our respectable jobs after that, we individually knew that we wanted more and were ready to take the plunge.
We are excited by the empowerment of adding value to existing methods of conducting business, the freedom to try out ideas and the lure of financial success. In our short yet exciting journey, one thing is clear that entrepreneurship too is a 9 to 5 job, only a 9 am to 5 am job!”
Though, we all have our own personal drives and motivations we connect on the aspiration to build an empire and create real impact.
Entrepreneurs are those who are the backbone of an economy, of the business class- but most importantly they are the ones who drive the society forward. I would like to thank Rishav Kumar, Dhruv Sethi, Snehaa Challa, Vikalp Mudgal, Pranay Swaroop and Aniket Bera for their cooperation and contribution to this article and the greater good of the world.
“On a larger scale, the objective is really to contribute and re-distribute tourism revenue and give folks belonging to the ultra-small and small scale industry a bigger/better/cheaper platform to directly sell their products. Monetizing is not our top priority right now. It’s more about making a social impact. Once we have a huge ecosystem, we can surely think of some business model to make our investors happy :-)"
E CELL, FMS DELHI
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