Yesterday I attended the Entrepreneur Meet held at Sky Square co-working space. A very nice venue and well organized event by Evento.
The two speaker sessions that really impressed me were 1) Gaurav Rana 2) Major Saurabh Sharma
Saurabh took his session with great enthusiasm. He touched upon very important point behind the entrepreneurship which is “Passion”. We always talk of motivation which is nothing but a reward factor that each one of us look for doing certain things. Motivation is needed as driving factor when there is absence of passion. The motivation can be in the form of salary, money, gift or something in return of that assignment or act. In contrast to this the point, that was well made was when things are driven by Passion; you are no more looking for motivation at all. When you are driven through passion you are already so much into the act that you no more need any kind of motivation. So true!!!! Once you find your passion and start working on your passion and the joy that it will give you will be invaluable.
Gaurav Rana – I must say that his talk and life story behind the current success was magnetic. He shared his life journey how he got into 10th grade with 96.5% and came out of Polytechnic course with 56 % as his heart was not in the studies but to do something different and big. Due to his low percentage he was not allowed to sit in any campus interview. He finally got one chance to sit in first and last interview which was of the Eicher motors and he cracked it. He joined the night shift and during day time he used to continue living his dream and kept planning for his business. In addition to doing his regular job in Eicher he slowly developed his business idea of opening a Saloon chain.
During his journey he relentlessly approached big shots like Oyo’s Ritesh Agrawal and Paytm’s Vijay Shekhar. It was good to know that his efforts were acknowledged and he could even meet Vijay in person who supported his idea (see his pic on LinkedIn with him). He not only met Ritesh but, has also met Ritesh’s mentor and got many interesting lessons.
One thing that he shared is very true that if you you want to establish your own business or start-up then just go all out there in market and be “Besharam”. Gaurav could take his business with hand picked team and developed Saloon chain in Indore, Mumbai & Singapore. His vision is very clear that once in the lifetime people should visit Calipso saloon and feel proud about it.
Talk by him was very inspiring and it was great to hear form him about his overall journey till date and his business from 0 to crores. Event was great spent of time on Saturday evening and I could network with lot of of like-minded people there at the event.
Overall enjoyed attending the event and could network with lot of like-minded people there at the event.