Dear Readers, Today I bring you an Interview with Mr.Chandan Mishra from Aonestall.com which was launched with the objective of breaking the gap between customers and dealers/customers and customers. Aonestall’s approach is completely customer centric – providing the best online shopping experience to the customers- great selection of books and products, lowest price, faster delivery, simple user interface and  the best customer service experience.  AJ: How the entrepreneurship journey started? Or who inspired you to start business? Chandan: Entrepreneurship journey started last year near about June when I was doing an internship in Excellence Technologies and worked on their Start-up Product Worknhire.com which prompted me to start my own firm as I loved the whole working experience of worknhire from start to the finish. So basically I was inspired by myself and worknhire...

Is there a right age to be an entrepreneur ?? Did u ever have the feeling that I am still young to start  a company ??  If yes, then hold on right there , this is for you. Xtra Computing Factors also called XCFactors is one such example. The founder Rohit kumar Sunkari was 19 years old when he started XCfactors. He is presently pursuing 4th year ( MS Software engineering ) from VIT university. Xtra Computing Factors conduct workshops at different places in various fields which include Web Designing, App Development, and Programming (Python, Ruby…). They also design websites, Banners, Posters, and are also into video making. When team Techaloo asked the founder what was his inspiration to start XCFactors he says, “The main idea to start the company is to help students showcase their talent , especially  the ones who are talented but have less opportunities”. Their mission is to train...

  Mr. Kunal Nandwani               uTrade Solutions isa financial trading technology company with various products including multi-asset trading platform, algorithms and analytics. uTrade´s design and development has been done by capital markets and technology experts with globally proven track record. uTrade has been founded by Mr. Kunal Nandwani.He holds a Computer Science Engineering degree from PEC – Chandigarh and      MBA degree from Essec business school – Paris. He has previously worked with Lehman Brothers, Nomura and BNP Paribas in London for around 6 years in capital markets, electronic trading, prime brokerage, managed accounts etc.                                                                                              Techaloo: Tell us something about uTrade. Kunal: uTrade is...

E-Commerce industry is one among the two fastest growing field for start-ups today. (See Mohit Bansal story Entrepreneurial Survey – Results on Techaloo). It has shown really exciting growth trend in recent times thanks to increase in number of internet users. Some ventures have utilised this situation well and have earned name for them. One such store is MagicKart. Founded in October 2011, MagicKart is probably India’s largest retailer for kitchenware and dining ware products. Its founder Rohit Jain despite of his bad health agreed to narrate the story of MagicKart to us. Read it here   Techaloo: You are postgraduate in marketing from Nottingham University. Lucrative white-collar job offers must be around the corner for you. But you chose to be an entrepreneur. Why? What was your motivation? RJ: Like the saying goes, the grass is greener on the other side, yes a white- collar...

If you are not willing to risk for the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.                                                                                Jim Rohn To be honest none of us want to settle for ordinary. We all want to make it big. But only a handful of us take the risk associated. One such person is Deepak Singh. To achieve his dreams, he quit MBA in midway and founded Yatrafinder.com, an online platform which offers customers best customized rates for hotels and holidays. He described us in length everything about Yatrafinder.com. Here is an excerpt of the interview Techaloo: Hi Deepak. You were pursuing MBA from IMT Ghaziabad and then you gave up it in midway and founded Yatrafinder.com(YF hereafter). Why? Should we hold people like of Steve Jobs, Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg responsible for this? Deepak:Yes, I was pursuing...

  “At PosterGully.com we don’t just sell posters & a huge range of merchandise we sell happiness, we sell spices to jazz up your life. PosterGully is designed not to be just a store but an experience, a space that engages you and inspires you to find your identity.” This is how PosterGully Facebook page introduce itself. Well before you conclude it as bragging, visit their store once. I am pretty sure you’ll be convinced they are not exaggerating anything. PosterGully was launched in June 2012 with aim to offer customers legal firangi maal (foreign merchandise) at desi (affordable) price. Its founder Bharat Sethi who is crazy for merchandise especially for posters since his childhood, is an Economic Honours graduate from Hans Raj College, University of Delhi. Bharat who now heads the operations and strategy department of PosterGully, has worked in past for a strategy consulting...

In its co-founders words “Sand & Mind believes in the “can do” quotient rather than grades, experience or your references marks or your previous successes. If you believe that you can do, you can solve the problem then you have a place in our team.” It is their uncompromising devotion toward work which makes them stand out among bunch of other similar IT ventures. Here is main part of our interview with Mr Kabir Bhaskar Chattoraj, Co-founder Sand & Mind ITeS\ Techaloo: What is Sand & Mind ITeS (SMITES here after)? How is it different from its competitors? Kabir: SMITES is primarily targeted as a Product Development company. However we started with services to fund our own seed money and plus to have a sustainable system. So, we are actually now doing what we always wanted to do i.e. creating a technology enterprise acting as the umbrella company for our ideas. We are...

Hello Guys , Let me introduce you all Guid Software founded by a couple of ambitious students from Hyderabad. Here is a short chat I had with the co-founder of Guid, Nawaz Dhandala. About Guid Software : GUID was founded in 2012 with a passion to build ground breaking and kick-ass software that runs on mobile phones, tablets,and in the cloud. It was founded by Nawaz Dhandala and Hatim . AJ :How the entrepreneurship journey started? Or who inspired you to start business?  Nawaz : It all started when I was at Bangalore airport and was flying to Mumbai. I remember, It was winter in India and the northern parts of the country were foggy. My flight was an incoming flight from Delhi and it was delayed by over 3 hours because of the fog all around. Needless to say, I was bored. I was playing with my phone and that was the “Eureka!” moment.  How great it would be if I could see people...

Entrepreneurship is not only about value creation in terms of money. It is something about returning back to society while earning for your company. “Deliver With Me” is a very good concept which benefits environment , E-Commerce and regular Air passengers. What is Deliver With Me? DeliverWithMe is a platform for crowdsourcing Ecommerce Delivery. Travellers deliver ecommerce packages. Ecommerce companies incentivize travellers through coupons, discounts, vouchers and freebies. How it works: 1.Traveller posts his trip on portal easily or forwards trip confirmation email from makemytrip, cleartrip etc to postmytrip@deliverwith.me 2. Ecommerce retailer packages his goods and hands over to deliverwithme. Deliverwithme finds travellers and hands over the package to traveller at airport. 3. Traveler Checks in Baggage and Lands in Destination. 4. Package handed over to deliverwithme...

Customization of Attire is today’s fashion. If you are looking for customized attire then Alchemy Store is for you. Alchemy Store aims to provide students and alumni of premier schools and colleges across India a chance to express their pride at being products of such reputed institutions. Journey Once upon a time, a dream breathed air… Hence Alchemy evolved. Alchemy Store is established in August 2011 by Varun Meghani and Aman.R.Jain at Bangalore, Karnataka. Both Varun Meghnai and Aman.R.Jain are the student of BBM in St. Joseph’s College of Commerce, Bangalore. They are just 20 years old and both hails from Rajasthan. The idea of Alchemy comes from their need itself. Aman came up with the idea when he was in his first year. Colleges always have festivals and sports days and students are always looking for customised T-shirts and sweatshirts and pay major bucks to get them...