One-on-one sales, word of mouth marketing and digital marketing are the primary levers we’ve used to grow. This has helped us keep variable costs low.

Avishek Tiwari​

Prozene

At the end of the day you won’t be happy until you put out our own work. Which is also why you should be prepared to live on a stone for a few years.

Rune Malmskov Dittmer

Press Play

Motivation comes along with positivity.

Nikita Mittal

Rezortify

Follow your passion and build your team. After that, start executing your startup idea.

Selvam M

ShortFundly

An engineering degree is a ticket to freedom.

Celeste Baine

EESC

All you need is a pinch of hard work, and a pinch of extra push every single day, and by the time you realize, you already are there.

Vinay Degavath

Qulp

Anything without passion is hollow, be it education, be it your job, be it your business or be it your personal life!

Jay Chopde

Infospectrum

Entrepreneurs are focused on solving problems rather than complaining about them.

Michael McGee

The Starter League

I myself feel the basic need of a solution which will help an Indian family like mine to eat together and not have the mother/wife stuck in the kitchen making rotis.

Pranoti Nagarkar

Rotimatic

Starting up is not as risky as we make it to be, and the lifelong learning and growth that results is far under-hyped.

Parul Gupta

SlideRule

Entrepreneurship is pretty straight forward - Believe in a vision and stick to the right and positive way during difficult times to ensure a higher success rate.

Raghavendran Viswanathan

FreighBro

In 10 years, when I go to a hackathon and ask, “Who here has used Postman?” - I want every hand in the room to go up.

Abhinav Asthana

Postman

Competencies can be build and nurtured. But right ambition, right motivation and cultural fit is very imp. I will suggest all entrepreneurs in early years to codify it.

Abhishek Ballabh

ExtraaEdge

I have learned, albeit the hard way, that to be able to give my best at work, I need to first make myself, the best version of me, every day. Yoga helps me achieve that and I try to be...

Toshi Prakash

Locus

I have this mantra - "Startups fail, entrepreneurs just emerge with more wisdom." I think a startup can teach you things that a big company can't do and even if you fail the knowledge is invaluable.

Baishampayan Ghose

Helpshift

Be strong and follow your heart and don’t be subservient to nah sayers and failures. There will be plenty on the way.

Avdhesh Khaitan

Kadet Defence Systems

Set meaningful goals for the business and measure success against the goals

Sean Casey

Shiftgi

Providing technology to enable creators to feed human senses with digital content is one of the most exciting endeavours.

Leonardo Chiariglione

MP3