The strangest way I’ve made money for my first Startup.

In the back of 2014, I took admission in college to do engineering.

Despite getting admission in ISRO, IISER, IISC-Bangalore and IIT, I chose Delhi over other cities.

At that time I made a commitment to earn enough money so I won’t need to take placement from college like others.

I learned to use the Internet because I never got a chance to use Laptop and google.

I took Rs. 5000 from my elder sister and joined a marketing firm to sell suits in rural areas.

I remember the day when I started.

I started selling suits to people via calls and referrals. But it didn’t work.

I went to my village for 15 days and worked 12 hrs a day to convince people to buy the suits.

In that 15 days, I sold 25 suits which cost around Rs. 7572/suit in 3–4 villages and I earned my first profit of Rs. 11000.

I hired some folks there to do the same thing and came to Delhi.

They were doing well but I had to train them to sale more.

I was continuously reading blogs, book-related to startups.

I got an idea to start my first startup in December 2014 and went to a web development company to ask them to build my website.

They asked me for Rs. 20 Lakhs for a single website with 1-year hosting and maintenance.

I went there with a thought that It would cost me only 10,000 rupees.

I came to the hostel and after 2–3 days of brainstorming, I asked one of my college friends to build the website.

He agreed and he asked me for 2000 for his pocket money.

I was so happy. But one idea strikes into my mind.

I searched a lot on google and find out that building a website is too costly for everyone.

I hired 5–6 friends who were in my batch to build websites for other businesses.

I was posting about build a website in cheap on facebook groups.

I got an order and They were paying me Rs. 80k for a website.

I paid 6k to my friends and delivered that website to the owner.

I took an advantage because college students don’t know what’s the trend in the market.

And I earned a profit of Rs. 74k.

I sold a lot of websites and started my first startup.

In the one year, I acquired 80k customers for my startup and It was like dreams came true.

Back to back, I founded two startups and took successful exits while in college.

Now I just graduated from college and working on another two startups.

Recently, One of my startups is listed into Top 100 startups of the world by startup Istanbul.

I also help early-stage startups to grow fast.