Few Successful Entrepreneurship Stories

Compiled from Various Sources

Entrepreneurship
When we talk about this subject, few striking examples are, Mr. Dhirubhai Ambani, Mr. Narayan Murthy. Here are some other examples. Lets see.

Mr. E Sarathbabu
IIM-A Alumni. Rejected Several MNC Lucrative Offers. Started His own Venture FOODKING, just 2 year ago. Initial experience, Rs. 2000 loss per day. Funded by IIM Friends.

Family Background
Lives in a hut at Madipakkam, Chennai. Mother was working as Ayah in anganwadi and also selling Idli to support family. Monthly Income, Rs. 1500.00 He spent is childhood in slums & He still lives in a hut there.

Journey to success
Got first break through at Ahmedabad, with 4 customers. (IIM-A, Darpana, Gujarat Energy, System Plus) Next was Chennai. Then BITS Pilani. The journey has just begun. Today, Rs. 33 Lakh Turnover every month and growing.

The Success Mantra

Goal, Car & House for mother. First goal achieved. Never Give up. Build enterprise from bits & pieces. Patience in planning, aggression in execution.

From 60000 to 435 Cr MA FOI

Mr. K Pandiarajan & his wife Mrs. Hemlatha (CA). Mr. Pandiarajan was just 3 months old when his father died. His father was a worker in a match box factory at Sivakasi.

Amazing start
After sad demise of his father, brought up by grand parents & joint family of 50. Graduated from XLRI Jamshedpur. Gave up the lucrative HR job. Started small HR Firm. Today it is MA FOI. Started supplying man power across globe.

Young Success
Vatsal Thakkar, Samyak Chakraborty, Rishi Narula. All students. Started a networking portal (EYM) in February, 2008. Youngest was just 18.

CEO at age 18
All of them are first year students, mass communication. 1.5 Million hits per week on their portal. Success Mantra, not to mint money, create values & better services. Money follows.

Rajshree Pathy
Rajshree Pathy, a non-conformist all her life, is proud to be a small-town entrepreneur with big ambitions she runs the Coimbatore-based Rajshree Sugars and Chemicals Limited, a company with interests across integrated fields such as sugar, distillery, power co-generation and biotechnology. She is obsessed about "doing the right thing".

Mr. Rashesh Shah

Born in a Gujarati family. Studied in English medium school (against family tradition). Graduated from IIM A. (Surprised?) Decided not to join family business. Married to a Kannadiga girl.

Edelweiss Story
Convinced family to mortgage family house to raise capital for his enterprise. Edelweiss Capital today is one of the few fully home-grown diversified financial services companies, competing for clients and employees with the Morgan Stanleys and Jardine Flemings of the world. It's set a scorching pace of growth: its revenue in the first nine months this year is Rs 680 crore, as compared to Rs 370 crore for the entire 2006-07. It has a market capitalisation of Rs 5,500 crore, an equity base of over Rs 2,000 crore (ten years ago, raising Rs 1 crore had been "quite a challenge"), 1,600 employees and over 40 offices all over India.

The Examples to Lead by.

These were some of the examples. What do you think we can do now?

Lets Begin.