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DARING ENTREPRENEURS OF 2019

LOVE BITES

RAHUL SINGH

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KICKASS INTERVIEW WITH BE YOUR SPEED OWN BOSS FORCE PAGEÂ 24

MAKE YOUR BRAND OUTSHINE GLOBALLY...!!

PARTH PATEL STORIES OF SOME SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEURS

CHANGING THE FACE OF EMPLOYMENT

DIPANKER

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FOUNDER’S CORNER First of all I would like to thank to my team members. Without their support it would not be possible for me to handle all things in one hand. They are very much supportive and active to their work. Moreover, they are passionate at their work. Technoledge is a magazine based on start up stories, interviews of entrepreneurs, advertisement, business promotion and other many things related to business. This is the second edition of this magazine. On behalf of Team Technoledge, I would like to thank to those entrepreneurs and start-ups that have come forward to feature their stories and interviews by believing us and our services. The term “Technoledge” is a combination of ‘Technology’ and ‘Knowledge’. These two are interrelated with each other. We are welcoming all start-ups and entrepreneurs to join in this noble journey and be a part of our family. Our journey is started now and miles to go. Hope it will be able to fulfil reader’s satisfaction.

Thank You Arpan Ghosh

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TEAM TECHNOLEDGE FOUNDER

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CONTENTS STARTUPS | POWERFUL IDEAS | REVOLUTION

11 DIGITAL FRIEND Digital friend began its digital journey years back with a miniature step in the burgeoning digital world.

13 FUTURE ZEN CONSULTANTS

The Main motive of our venture was to bridge the gap between Technical and Management requirements of the Companies and clients.

FOUNDER'S CORNER LOVE BITES - CAKES ARPAN GHOSH AND CHOCOLATES Arpan Ghash has lot to share in this second edition of Technoledge about the daring entreprenuers of 2019.

A story of a retired athlete on pursuing and finishing his ultimate race. He has been called the world's most marketable athlete of his time.

16 ACQUIST For maintaining energy to repairing muscles runner and chef Isaac Mills shared some healthy diet plans on how to get that extra mile.

19 KONNECT PEERS CONSULTING Great runners do it with a purpose in order to do better and finish every single race. A simple question for all the runners, why do you run?

21 PYTHON BRAINS JOURNEY The most awaited event of the year for the runners. Find out the big challenge this time and you might just win a big prize.

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KICKASS INTERVIEW WITH SPEED FORCE

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APARNA PREETHI Coimbatore A literature student who loves to read and write. A budding author. Interested in creative stuffs; Loves travelling. Mail ID:Â aparnapreethi3@gmail.com

SOUMI GHOSH Kolkata 1st position holder for back to back two years in St. Xavier's College, Burdwan inter college fashion contest and Winner of the Priyaadarsini Magazine and FBB present Miss Fashion Icon in 2018. Mail ID: ghoshsoumi275@gmail.com Facebook: @SoumiGhoshSyammi

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ARUNAV SOM Burdwan & Kolkata Did an Ad for Sriniketan Fashion'sÂ winter collection & Eid collection, and for a Sunglasses brand (image). Finalist in Stars of Bengal 2k18. Acted in a web series "DesiMates". M-tech in Civil engg. Specialisation in Structural Analysis & Design. Joint Owner & Lecturer in Sylvan Polytechnic College. Mail ID: asom19@gmail.com Facebook: @ArunavSom Instagram: @Arusom

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SWETA SUREKA Kolkata She is a mother of two beautiful souls. She is an Economics (hons) graduate from St. Xavier's College, Kolkata. Thereafter, she did Advanced Diploma In Finance from ICFAI. She is also a certified IELTS trainer. She has always been inclined towards making a positive difference to the lives of people. In order to attain that in a systematic manner she had undergone training to be a Certified Transformational Life Coach and now practices as same. The latest feather to her cap is being an author. The Closure- Journey to my true self is her first book. It is a work of fiction but it talks about real women issues. She wants to bring to life the experiences of everyday women through fiction. It is a simple journey of Aarti which makes us realize the importance of self-love and prioritizing oneself over others. She wants to bring out the best in people be it through her writing or her coaching. Website: http://swetasureka.com/ http://authorsweta.com/ Facebook: @LifeCoachSweta Instagram: @authorsweta Twitter: @authorsweta

PRIYASI DAS Winner of 100 Inspiring Authors of India organised by The Indian Awaz & Top 50 Influential Authors' Award 2K18 organised by the Spirit Mania. Nominated for Author Award Achievement by NE8x Online Literature Festival 2019 organised by NE8x. Author of 3 Books & Co Author of 20 Books. She is from the City of Joy Kolkata. Rather than being an Author, she is also a Student. She feels writing is the art of expressing emotions. Book Name: Thoughts From Inner Soul Mail ID: priyasidas15@gmail.com Facebook: @priyasi.das.9 Instagram: @priyasi_das Twitter: @das_priyasi

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KRINA GINDRA Mumbai Krina Gindra is a Blogger & Influencer. " It's my passion to write about entertainment, Travel, Fashion, beauty, lifestyle, media releases, health & fitness and love adding value to the growing digital audience by sharing my experiences.Brands I have worked with are Go Airlines , Nestle , MG motors , Aditya birla wellness, shein , lifestyle stores , Rupay card , Himalaya wellness , Quista pro proteins , Sunburn festival , Reliance jewels , Asian paints , Goverdhan , fabelle chocolates , primlease pharma , ultimate ears , etc. " She has also been titled as India's Youngest influencer Marketer, PR & Blogger by various renowed internet portal - Newspatrolling.com, Glamourtreat.com, Newsrepublic.net, Dhunt.in, reviewtimes.in, bloglovin.com, newsrepublic.net, news360.com, thehindustandailylive.wordpress.com. Website: http://krinagindra.com Facebook: @krinagindra21 Instagram: @krinagindra Twitter: @krina_gindra

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LOVE BITES Cakes and Chocolates Startup

Innovation and the love for desserts, made 'Love Bites' happen...

CAKES AND CHOCOLATES Founder: Rahul Singh With the desire to succeed and the urge to fulfill his potentially, a small town boy ' Rahul Singh ' started dreaming of spreading Love towards the entire country with Cakes and Chocolates through his venture ' Love Bites ' He believes ' A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others '. Love Bites, an online bakery shop was started by Rahul Singh, the proprietor of the company, back in January 22nd, 2017. At the age of 26 Rahul's vision transformed into reality with his successful start-up brand, Love Bites. Delivering pieces of love at customer's doorstep is Rahul's way of celebration.

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HOW IT ALL STARTED? Well in the beginning it was very tough for me to make people convince of why they should take our cakes instead of the big branded companies which are already well settled in the market but once they felt the hand licking taste of our cakes they themselves preferred us in comparison to others.

Right now we are focusing on giving franchises in different states so that people get to know about the love we spread in our products. Next year we will be available in Delhi (the capital of India). We are also looking to provide jobs to young vibrant students because I believe young minds have the capability of running New Digitalised India through divergent aspects.

The idea of delivering customized designer cakes at the customer's doorstep prompted me to start my online bakery shop." Which highlighted the fact that, innovation and the love for desserts, made 'Love Bites' happen. It started with my own small town ' Burdwan ' and now it is available in Kolkata , Durgapur, Bangalore , Mumbai , Chandigarh. Well Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. Talking of success it's just that we need to proceed with our efforts without thinking of the results. If you want to be successful, you definitely need to be thinking out of the box. There will be problems in the beginning of every start ups but one need to stick with it through the effort.

We are not different from others because I believe everyone has the potentiality of achieving something big but it's just that they need to hear their inner voice to make their dreams successful. We just did what we thought will be best for us without thinking of the later consequences and by god's grace it came out big. Well starting from a small town Burdwan and spreading it to 7 different states of India that too within 2years only need some appreciation and we deserve it to be very bold.

I started with only one baker and now we are a family of 16 bakers. In the Future we are looking to open branches in every states on the country. We are currently working on giving ' baking classes ' Â which will b certified by The Indian Academy of Art. Yes talking of standard we have always kept a strong look in these aspects. We only provide eggless cakes [ pure veg] and fresh cream cakes. So that it will be healthy for every section of the society.

"A CREATIVE MAN IS MOTIVATED BY THE DESIRE TO ACHIEVE, NOT BY THE DESIRE TO BEAT OTHERS."

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DIGITAL FRIEND MAKE YOUR BRAND OUTSHINE GLOBALLY...!!

I AM ONLINE... ARE YOU?

IT COMPANY STARTUP IT'S ALL ABOUT DIGITAL MARKETING

FOUNDER: PARTH PATEL Digital Friend is a baby of a young guy who hailed with dreams and passion in the heart to be a successful entrepreneur, which is now turned into the noteworthy IT Company which provides services in Digital Marketing. Digital friend began its digital journey years back with a miniature step in the burgeoning digital world. Growing with the years and expanding its arena, Digital friend is befriending the digital world at a lightning speed.

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Digital Friend is your BFF in the world full of Social Friends ! Let's be Friends !

TING TONG ! DIGITAL WORLD IS CALLING YOU...! In 2013, Parth Patel (Founder of Digital Friend) started with Social Media Marketing as a Freelancing Service, further witnessing the global scenario for digital marketing and with passing the time he started Digital Friend as a full-time digital marketing company with Hardik Patel (Consociate), gradually they expanded their wings in Web Development, SEO, and Imaginative designing. Initially, a lot of problems were faced by them, but their main focus was on building a satisfactory relationship with clients and winning their trust. Digital Friend, the Online Marketing Professionals, is a full-service Digital Marketing Agency, which directs its full attention towards helping small to medium-sized businesses broaden their online exposure, attract a wider audience and maximise their marketing budget. Every brand requires unique recognition and sui generis approach to reach the epitome of success, they provide the egregious result driven strategy to make client's brand shine phenomenally.

Digital friend believes in developing a multi-channel strategy that is paramount to online success. They offer the expertly crafted mayhem needed to take client brand's online presence to the next level. Digital friend has always strived to rack up the finest outputs for their clients. Currently, they are working with some of the lofty companies in the market in the Automobile, FMCG, Hotels, Food &Restuarant, Construction and Electronics Sector. They are also a leading brand for the promotion of Gujarati movie promotions and many enormous events happening in their base city Ahmedabad. Be it just starting out, evolving your brand or branching out across the globe, they are working locally but with a global mindset to make their client brand outshine globally!

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FUTURE ZEN CONSULTANTS Customized Concept to Commissioning & Concept to Commercial Operations

COMPREHENSIVE CONSULTING BRIDGING GAPS Unofficially we started our journey in the summer of 2013 as Management Consultants for the freelancing and customized need based projects. Since most of the projects were received through our references, close friends and known corporate acquaintances. Projects were usually of various sizes and were as small as HR Policies Frameworks, Personal finance advisor to as big as Fund raising, Feasibility Studies & Detailed Project Reports, Business development activities. Though that time it was never about Revenue or profit making, but it was more about building expertise, developing interest, networking with clients, learning decision making abilities, etc. We never faced problems during this phase as being educated from premier colleges helped to us to get projects from reputed and established Consulting organizations and we used to provide qualitative output to the clients.

FOUNDER & MANAGING PARTNER Venkatesh Medeshetty

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COMPREHENSIVE CONSULTING - IDENTIFYING OPPORTUNITIES Rather the positive response from them encouraged us in 2017 to get into Full time Business Advisory (BA) & Project Management Consulting (PMC) services. It would like to state that our diversified academic achievements and experience of working in Leadership positions across functions in diversified industries increased the exposure to the problems faced by the Business stakeholders. The Main motive of our venture was to bridge the gap between Technical and Management requirements of the Companies and clients and to act as single point of contact for entire project needs. Because of numerous aspects related to green field and brown field project development; clients have to reach approx 10 to 12 consultants who are experts in various fields to get their dream projects into execution and commercial operations. The USP of our venture is we would be the Single point of contact (SPOC) and the only consultant who will handle the entire project activities. This is mainly achieved through the Managing partners and Execution Team Experience into cross functional diversified projects.

"Business mentors are the key — that’s why when it comes to client selection, we’re choosy."

Future Zen Consultants core activities revolve around four verticals namely Business Advisory & Management Consulting, Investment Banking, Project Management Consulting & Plant Operations and Turnkey Services. Though by the time we started the venture, we have already signed contract for 3 diversified projects as Project Management Consultants (PMC), but those are of long gestation periods with 2 to 3 years timeframe from Concept to Commercial operations activities. Some of the problems we started facing for new projects where about how to convert enquiries to project received through open tenders, intermediates and unknown clients. Another major problem was how to convince the overseas clients about our expertise without face to face meeting. Due to my team international experience, we receive lot of enquiries mainly from Africa, South East Asia and South America. To mitigate the problems and increase our visibility, we have strengthened the Marketing and Business Development Expertise, partnerships with reputed OEMs.

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Since most of the green field projects are through First generation entrepreneurs, who have limited subject knowledge on the subjects. To showcase our expertise to their needs and to overcome these loopholes, we started preparing Project Profiles for location based conditions and based on the client background, we pitch at least 5 to 8 profiles to improve their thought process and understand the project economics. This approach is doing wonders for us as now in addition to Project Management Consulting, we are also getting short term Expert Advisory and Subject Matter Expert roles also.

entrepreneur.Last and Latest trigger point lead to incorporation of venture. This trigger point was because of lack of scope or growth opportunities and reluctance of the Corporate to act on lot of high margin positive Business Ideas.

Another aspect we have added to solve problems is by providing Operations and Management support to the clients for 1 year from COD (commercial operations date). This aspect is acting as a confidence booster to clients and in addition to that we are developing Supply Chain linkage for the products.

We are sector agnostic and take up diversified projects on need basis. Some of the projects which are handled directly under our supervision are Multi Fruit Processing Unit, Cocoa and Chocolate Processing, Pharmaceuticals Project, Aqua (Fisheries) Project, Integrated Farming projects, Natural extracts, Feed Mills, Trading of Seafood, Pulses and grains, Mining & Minerals, Automobile aftermarket products, distillery & brewery, Composite products for defence industry, etc.

For the Clients who prefer customization, we take FEED (Front End Engineering Design) and detailed engineering activities. The positive aspect of this element, in continuation to design and engineering we take up Plant & Machinery Fabrication reducing the total project cost by approx 20%to the clients.

As most of the entrepreneurs have also one through our route, I can say that we also had numerous trigger points across career as about when to start own venture. For us, I can tell confidently that I had 3 trigger points to become

"Together weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll create and refine your plan for success. We didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get there alone. And neither will you."

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ACQUIST Using innovative methods in direct marketing spectrum

Sanjay Guha Founder & CEO “Acquist”- A name centralized around the theme of “Acquisition” tells a lot about us and our specialization in “New Customer Acquisition” we use various innovative methods in direct marketing spectrum to achieve the client’s requirements. We have contributed and helped our clients manage their external and internal marketing and data related requirements, keeping the core focus on new customer acquisition. Having said that the journey OF starting my own startup started back in my work-ex years where multiple incidents build up over my entire corporate career and the startup I had worked for. So essentially I have always worked in the sales and marketing domain running marketing campaigns for clients in top corporate in banking, logistics and other such domains and also soliciting business for them. A Post that I joined one of the startups as one of their senior management & that sort of gave me some insights of managing the cash flow & operations.

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KNOWING YOUR CLIENT During this entire journey I identified that there was a niche segment, which exists as most of the marketing agencies typically work on the creative branding and other aspects, but a lot of time they do not focus on the end ROI generation the end new client acquisition and having identified this I took a leap of faith & in December 2013 I launched “Acquist” with just some family and personal savings. Talking about our clients I’d like to give you 3 case studies which show the vividity of the clients we work with. 1) A top corporate and a large enterprise client “VODAFONE”, they you know are omnipresent everyone knows the consumer brand, everyone knows the Vodafone icon the dog, but Vodafone was present in the enterprise segment we helped them in building and running the property in targeting the small and midsized customers, this property we ran it for 3 years and we targeted more than 25-30K small medium enterprises so here we essentially created an award jointly with them called “Ready for the big league” where we helped them in targeting the companies from 5 to 500 Cr turnover in their definition where the segments were 5-50 and 50-500 and we did a huge profiling exercise and branding exercise following with a large outreach lead generation program, which helped in building the brand Vodafone as a significant brand in the enterprise segment with the SME community, so this is one very large programs we ran.

The motto of Acquist is to help our clients to acquire new customers. It is very unique and is also our USP.

2) There is another company called as “AMS inform” which is a very large and one of the oldest and background verification check companies in the country however they have let other foreign brands white label their services, so what we have done for AMS is we have very strategically helped them solicit business from the large corporates by reaching out to them one on one be it in India, Singapore, UK and other target markets. 3) We also work with a host of real estate clients just to give you an example “L&T Realty” which remains one of our top clients, for them in the micro market of Powai and Mumbai we have helped generate very high number of walk-ins, I can't share those numbers here as we have some NDA signed with them, but that again has been a very successful campaign at a fraction of the cost of a typical digital marketing budget we actually have driven ROI generated marketing and ensure that the right customers walking to the site and experience the project and of course we have seen significant conversions happening from that as well so these are 2-3 different case studies, there are more but I felt these were relevant to mention here. The motto of Acquist is to help our clients to acquire new customers (which again and again I have mentioned), I think that is very unique and is also our USP, in terms of what internally drives us I think is fairly a young team we have and we are very growth oriented both internally and externally. For external clients we try out new different things then see what strategy works and implement it also internally we have added a different business line different verticals. We are like a startup incubator where we have found 2 more startups with Acquist & I think that’s our core DNA which reflects on our work and also the work we do for our clients.

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Having started in Dec 2013 we are a privately held company headquartered in Mumbai and I cannot share the finer details here I would say so far we have in totality clocked about 1.5 million dollars of revenue and in terms of the manpower we have about 40-45 resources working for us of which 25 are in house and have other people working on client sites and premises we also have a lot of Foot On Street people who are working for clients on ground per say so Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d say from a team of 3-4 we have expanded to around 45 plus from time to time we also mobilize a lot of resources as and when we require in project so if we consider them then we have hired around 200-250 people but lot of these people are contract based or people who work seasonally or cyclically. In the span of these 4 years we have been able to create our presence in Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and Bangalore and even internationally in Singapore and soon we are setting up an office in the UK. At this point I believe we have carved a niche for ourselves where, I think any and every company can use us we are now in a position where we are now actually selective about the people we work with, because while we are very target oriented and ROI driven we want to work with teams which typically there is a match in ours and their vision. So you know the kind of steps we take jointly yield results and results in a long term. The sales and marketing domain it is ever expanding with companies, so in a good economy anyway people go bullish and in a bad economy too they want results, sales is finally something on which they canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t curb down on so I think the opportunity lies, and like I said I have a team ready, a backing ready so we are ready to leverage any opportunity to any industry which needs us across the globe now.

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KONNECT PEERS CONSULTING Changing the face of employment in UP

WHAT'S DIFFERENT? Works on improving the skillset of candidates

EMPOWERING THE EMPLOYMENT Our Company CEO: Dipankar Brihaspat Here’s a trend-setting company that’s proud to say that it has changed the face of employment in Allahabad in just one year. Konnect Peers Consulting was incepted in mid2017 by Dipankar Brihaspat (Experienced Business Analyst & Lawyer) to tackle several manpower issues in Allahabad. The main issue was that though the city has an excellent talent pool, most of them are leaving Allahabad due to the misconception that there’s no employment opportunity in the city. Konnect Peers Consulting decided to do something about this, in order to retain the talent pool within Allahabad, to promote business within the city.

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WE'RE HERE TO FULFILL DEMANDS... After months of due diligence, Konnect Peers Consulting found out certain home truths. The result? They found out that while the talent pool was definitely good, they did not have the right skillset to appeal to different clientele. For example, an accounts graduate would not necessarily understand how to use accounting software to process payroll. So, here’s what Konnect Peers Consulting did. They started identifying employment opportunities and hired the requisite talent that would fit those opportunities. While this is what any regular Human Resource Company would do, Konnect Peers Consulting went one step further. They did more research on the skillsets that each client wanted in their recruits, and then started training their candidates in those skillsets. If this meant training the accounts graduate in accounting software, KonnectPeers was fine with it. Konnect Peers Consulting’s dynamic initiative to solve the problem right at the source has been very successful, going by the company’s growing clientele. So far Konnect Peers Consulting has provided successful recruitment services to companies such as Hyundai, HDFC Life, Limeroad, Mahindra Group and several others. Konnect Peers Consulting initiative goes beyond mere recruitment – it offers true empowerment to the candidates and instils complete trust in the client receiving the empowered talent. KonnectPeers goes a step further as part of their dynamic initiative. They organize HR events such as Walkathons, talent identification conferences and more in small towns near Allahabad. The idea is to source the best talent from nearby towns and provide them with the same empowering training and deployment services that have placed so many candidates in excellent organizations. We wish KonnectPeers more luck in their endeavours!

KonnectPeers aims at providing quality resources to the companies across verticals.

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PYTHON BRAINS JOURNEY Entrepreneur seeks for “Breakthrough” not “survival”

We distribute the most sought after thing in the world “Knowledge”.

The company is started by Mohnish Awade, A Management Consultant from Bangalore, India in the year 2014 with the goal of creating Education

The company is started by Mohnish Awade, a Management Consultant from Bangalore, India in the year 2014 with the goal of creating Education platform that has zero bandwidth consumption for video streaming and a real-time educational content generation platform with AI (Artificial Intelligence) capability such as Real Time Handwriting Recognition, Speech processing – Speech to Text conversion, and Natural Language processing for language understanding and real language generation. Mohnish put lot of money in development of such a dreamy project by outsourcing the task to some reputed technology company in this segment, but unfortunately none of this company able to do it as expected in the desired time. “People in the market appear intelligent than they actually are ,

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Entrepreneur seeks for “Breakthrough” not “survival” so don’t go with the name tag in technology sector” said Mohnish. After wasting one and a half year and money, he realised in developing the technology in-house by hiring software developer, once again this plan failed in the interview stage because education in the country is highly outdated. Now he has lost almost 2 years and lots of money, but not passion for project. After burning the finger twice in the market and learned the lesson in hard way, he made the most audacious decision of learning the computer programming himself, this is the time he found other cofounders for a remarkable journey you are witnessing today. Sujeet Brahmankar, Engineer turned Entrepreneur started learning coding from a well known Expert Python programmer, Alok Thakur in Pune. Alok provided training online on Saturday and Sunday free of cost to Mohnish and Sujeet for about 6 months.

After six month this trio is outperforming many experienced coder in the market in many software coding competition such as techgig etc. “Alok did not join the organization but remain our mentor forever”, said Sujeet. Now the two co-founders formed a company called Python Brains in the year 2016, but the cofounders knowledge is limited to Python programming and they realized that only python programming will not solve the purpose, although they can now code entire web & mobile application in a week time from scratch. The duo moved to another teacher named Swapnil Warkar, a Machine Learning Expert , and invested another 8 months for learning the entire machine learning. Now it’s November 2016 , the duo decided to hire interns and train them so that they can do the desired technological job and finally this strategy worked phenomenally well in the next six months the team has grown from 2 people to 12 expert programmers. Python Brains programmer are rocking the technology market with their expertise getting acknowledged in different part of the world through competitions / hack-a-thons and successful completion of projects. By the year 2018, the company has successfully developed its Real-Time Handwriting Recognition, Speechto-Text and Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology. The company has also developed its skills set in Blockchain Technology in programming language such as Node JS and Go programming and planned to develop its Ultra Low Bandwidth consumption platform for Video Streaming in coming six months, with efforts the company has developed this technology in just two months.

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Something really great happened with Python Brains in march 2018, when their Handwriting Recognition / OCR(Optical Character Recognition) technology got visibility in some banks in India and soon company has contract for developing a proof-of-concept(POC) of an OCR for digitizing the banking KYC documents. The company successfully delivered this POC- Proof-of-concept in a week time and Python Brains is serving many such requirement in BFSI(Banking financial Services and Insurance) sector. As far as education project is concerned, the company developed the successful prototype of world last education technology you will ever need. This is DAO (Distributed Autonomous Organization) kind of dApp in Blockchain technology (without any Cryptocurrency), also the block-chain developed is also developed from scratch. This technology is so powerful that it can replace textbooks with rich media content and teachers with AI teaching bots. But as soon as company started to proceed this education technology by forming a company called Exacraft AI Pvt. Ltd., the founders realised that in India there are some limitations for the use of blockchain technology and also there is not enough laws to protect interest of citizen in this technology and there is no regulatory authority in place. So the company has dropped its plan to launch its app till government of India approve it. Currently the company is proudly serving clients in BFSI (Banking, Financial Services and Insurance). The software solution for BFSI sector is completely GDPR(General Data Privacy Rights) and Indian IT Act security compliance - The main USP(Unique selling proposition) for the company. Apart from BFSI many Government organization are clients for Python Brains.

“Our highly accurate AI model due to our unique mathematical and technical capabilities, we are easily outperforming many of our competitions” said Sujeet. The power source for such a capability is DLRDDeep Learning Research and Development, the in-house training system developed for training employee. DLRD is equipped with great infrastructure in High Performance computing (HPC) and Cloud. These HPC infrastructures provide python brains to setup and deliver any projects really quick. From August-2018 DLRD, its training and Infrastructure, is partially available to public outside of the company. Python brains and its sister companies only hire people trained in DLRD to maintain its high technical resource quality. DLRD alone transformed and saved many technology startups in Pune, India. Because of DLRD many start-ups is quickly prototyping their products and testing it in the markets. The company also has opportunity for series of investment from five India and Canada, but the management has not made its mind to involve any Investor for equity yet. “Our main deal breaker is our capability to deliver any type of software overnight, in fact we are the fastest software shipping company, thanks to our Team of DevOps, that makes this magical performance possible and making us stand out in the competitive market, hence we are only focussing on scaling our business with our revenue and hard work” said Mohnish.

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SPEED FORCE DEEPEN BARAI ENTREPRENEURS INVESTOR

Give a brief info about your start-up? We are into Consultancy and development of Multi band Two Wheeler Service Stations\Workshops across the country. With the increasing numbers of two-wheelers in India and growth rate of almost around 20% year on year from last 5 to 6 years, this is high earning potential business. With added features like doorstep service, vehicle pickup & drop facility, on road breakdown support, AMC, accidental service, insurance renewal and support itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s becoming fast popular and more convenient among new generation with single window service. Low investment and high returns are the key success of this business. Our online and offline support and training boost the confidence of the business owner.

Mohan M Vaidya I was working with one of the leading twowheeler company for 36 years in the after-sales service department. Owning a business was always a dream. Three more friends were of the same opinion. So it was a joint decision to form a new company. Other three partners are from the same file.

What made you start your startup and what problem does it solve?

In current market situation service provided by the available channels his own limitations, where has customerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s expectations are increasing day by day. With a new approach to service, we are trying to bridge a gap.

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Kapil Bhindi

SECOND EDITION After working in telecom, insurance, and networking industry for more than 18 years I decided to start a venture where I would enable myself to create Young Entrepreneurs and via them generate more and more skilled employment in my area and with this would support my nation. Being from the business family and serving in the corporate sector I decided to create a holistic model in two-wheeler service industry and started walking on this path where I found out my old friend and now colleague.

With a vast experience of over around 16 years in Banking\Finance and insurance industry and have worked in middle management level there came a time at the juncture of an age wherein I felt a need to start a business in the service industry because in todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time service industry plays a huge role in Indian Economy. In this endeavor and search of a service industry business,

We both got together and developed a chain of individual workshops in and around Baroda which gave services to customers on their doorstep and would help them with breakdown support on the road this included all the other services related to two-wheelers under one roof. After creating almost around 70 entrepreneurs and more than 210 skilled employees I found out that this noble profession should be carried forward in the form of a professional start-up company and then we together founded a brand Speedforce.

I found out that there is a huge vacuum in the two-wheeler service industry as there were majorly 2 types of service providers (OEMs & LGOs). With these providers, the customer of the industry was either dissatisfied or less satisfied due to various factors like time\costing and trust factor.

Tell us about yourself, your previous jobs/ventures? What were you doing before this start-up?

So I started the survey amongst the local public of Baroda about the need that they actually want. With this me and one of my old friend and current colleague developed the innovative idea in two-wheeler service industry where we started giving Free Pick Up & Drop Facility, On Road Breakdown Support and all the twowheeler related services under one roof for working on this model for around five years individually and after developing a good satisfied customer base we decided to form a start-up and established a company under the name of Speedforce.

Mohan M Vaidya I am an automobile engineer. Worked with Bajaj Auto Ltd for 26 years in the service department as a service engineer and then regional manager for Maharashtra, Gujarat and MP & CG. Last 10 years in Network development. The job involves extensive traveling, service infrastructure development, training, spare parts management, customer handling, customer satisfaction, and product feedback. In Network development, dealerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance monitoring, Reviews, new appointments, terminations were the nature of the job.

Kapil Bhindi A commerce graduate I have worked in various fields of banking\finance and insurance industry with companies like Standard Chartered Bank, Kotak Mahindra, Future Generali, and Bharti Axa & Dlf Pramerica and reached from the lowest level to a middle management profile in my last assignment.

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If we see specifically the kind of business we do there is as such no competition in the market which provides the entire package to a business prospect or to a customer.

Deepen Barai Belonging from a small town I joined telecom industry and then subsequently moved on to the insurance and network industry I have worked with different geographical peripheries of the country and have established and developed a good potential network of various genres. In my professional journey of more than 18 years and starting at a very basic level I reached onto a substantial height of management level. During this experience, I have worked with companies like Vodafone, Idea, Airtel, Bajaj Allianz and Reliance Life. My core functioning area included Recruitment of Dealers, Agents, and Business Associates.

Where is your start-up based out of? Why do you think that is the best place for you? Our start-up is based in Baroda (Gujarat). After the survey we did in the local market as the first workshop we developed was in Baroda and there was a huge potential for the services that we provide in the automobile market. More so the local public of Baroda are major of service (Job) class and does not have spare time to service their vehicle. After the success of our first workshop, we developed the entire chain in an around the city and today we are very successful to develop the same in entire Gujarat.

As a start-up founder, what are you paranoid about? What keeps you awake at night?

Also if there is a competition it is only limited to a private business and the model that they provide is very costly as compared to our business solutions.

How hard is it to have a work-life balance as a startup founder and how do you manage it? It is always difficult for a businessman to balance work and life not only start-up but a good old businessman also because one of the factors of key success of any business\businessman is the availability to the internal and external customer. But we as a team are able to give equal justice to the family and work as we plan our tasks and we have a specific entity in our team for a specific task to be performed. So the time devotion on each job is decided planned and executed very well till now.

Have you raised funding? If yes, then we would like to know the details. If no then please tell us if you are looking to raise. Currently, we are managing through our own funds.We are expecting a tie-up with MNC or leading brand. After this tie-up, we may need funding from outside.

What I promised I must deliver. Strong base Foundation with steady growth. Create a good brand image in the industry. Franchise Growth is our growth. To become a pioneer in vehicle and customer service.

What are the biggest misconception people have about you? Why do they have that? Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the reality?

Who are your competitions and how are you better than them?

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get to gather with the team and discuss on an entire day with the franchise if found some major points we try and clear those. After reaching home by around 8:30 we spend our entire time with family till we sleep on our individual schedules.

get the vehicle service in front of them. We designed the process in such a way that both will be satisfied. Old and existing garage owners are not ready to change and do not want to invest in new ideas while new young & qualified people are slightly hesitant to go for this business. At first sight, they feel it may not get the required profitability. But this is not true as our recently opened franchise started making a profit from 1st quarter itself.

Tell us about your team and how did you meet each other? The details about the team have already been discussed in the above points.

What gets you excited about this company?

Me (Kapil) and Deepen being from the same industry vis. Insurance and both of them belonging from the same town were quite in touch with each other. Somewhere in the back of our mind,

Great satisfaction of providing a solution to edge old business.Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a completely new approach to this kind of business. We are creating a business opportunity for new entrepreneur and via this generating skilled employment opportunity. We are sure of a successful business for any nontechnical person through our guidance and continuous training and mentoring.

we were planning to do a business of service industry being experienced from the same domain. Deepen came up with a brilliant idea of starting a multibranded two-wheeler workshop and then after survey, we started with one workshop and rest is history.

Tell us how a day in your life looks like? Your schedule for a day right from the time you get up till you hit the bed at night.

During our journey and our fond habit of meeting new people daily we came across Mr. Mohan Vaidya who was very well experienced in the domain and have been served in a giant automobile company we explained him the concept and made him associate with us to play a very key role in the organization with his experience and knowledge the foundation of the organization has become very strong with deepen and Kapil playing a front role and Mr. Vaidya with a back end strong support.

What are the biggest misconception people have about you? Why do they have that? Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the reality?

After that we ourselves on our own start meeting the prospects of the day which are already scheduled a day prior. The sales meeting prospects are being done till 3:00 p.m. and after that, we break for lunch till 4:00 p.m. After that, we start meeting different vendors\opportunities of upcoming time which we can accumulate in our model and help the franchise to increase their revenue. Because we believe we should keep changing with the time by adopting the new changes. After finishing the day by 7:00. We again

Our business model is based on new generation and young customer â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s.In markets both young and old customers are available. While young needs services on one click & transparency, old need to get the vehicle service in front of them. We designed the process in such a way that both will

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be satisfied. Old and existing garage owners are not ready to change and do not want to invest in new ideas while new young & qualified people are slightly hesitant to go for this business. At first sight, they feel it may not get the required profitability. But this is not true as our recently opened franchise started making a profit from 1st quarter itself.

What gets you excited about this company?

Because we believe we should keep changing with the time by adopting the new changes. After finishing the day by 7:00. We again get to gather with the team and discuss on an entire day with the franchise if found some major points we try and clear those. After reaching home by around 8:30 we spend our entire time with family till we sleep on our individual schedules.

Tell us about your team and how did you meet each other?

The details about the team have already been discussed in the above points. Me (Kapil) and Deepen being from the same industry vis. Insurance and both of them belonging from the same town were quite in touch with each other. Somewhere in the back of our mind,

Tell us how a day in your life looks like? Your schedule for a day right from the time you get up till you hit the bed at night.

After finishing the daily personal routine we start our day at 9:00 a.m. sharp with this we gather at our office and start following up with the team in the first hour regarding the franchise development and franchise tasks for the day. We have a dedicated business development as well as a technical team to help the franchise in their day to day routine throughout the tenure. After that we ourselves on our own start meeting the prospects of the day which are already scheduled a day prior. The sales meeting prospects are being done till 3:00 p.m. and after that, we break for lunch till 4:00 p.m. After that, we start meeting different vendors\opportunities of upcoming time which we can accumulate in our model and help the franchise to increase their revenue.

To summarize the journey of all three of us has been very excited with eventful learning. We hope to continue the same in future and create new milestones in multibranded two wheeler service industry market. We promise to provide best in the class vehicle and customer service.

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