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How Two Delhi Friends Made Premium Coffee affordable and built a ₹2.4 Crore Business

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Starting a coffee business usually sounds expensive. Commercial espresso machines, café interiors, rent, staff and marketing can quickly push the investment into several lakhs. But Delhi-based coffee brand Kofi Kafi took a very different route. Founded by friends Vaibhav Arora and Vansh Mor in 2023, Kofi Kafi started with a customised roadside coffee cart in

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How this Vidit Aatrey left his IAS Dream and built Meesho into a ₹30,000 Crore Marketplace

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What happens when someone leaves the path of a conventional career and decides to build a startup instead? For Vidit Aatrey, the answer eventually became Meesho, one of India’s major e-commerce platforms. Aatrey’s journey is particularly interesting because entrepreneurship was not necessarily the obvious career choice for him. After graduating from IIT Delhi, he worked

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How IIT Kharagpur Alumni Built a Home-Cooking Startup Bringing Cooks to Your Kitchen

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India’s food-tech industry has spent years making it easier to order food from restaurants. ChefKart is taking a different approach. Instead of delivering a prepared meal from a restaurant, ChefKart allows customers to book trained and verified cooks who prepare food inside their own kitchens. Founded in 2020 by IIT Kharagpur alumni Vaibhav Gupta, Aman

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This Jaipur Startup is turning Traditional Indian Craftsmanship into Modern Homeware

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In a market filled with mass-produced home products, two Jaipur entrepreneurs found an opportunity in something much older: traditional Indian craftsmanship. Founded by husband-and-wife duo Punit Agarwal and Chandni Gupta in 2022, Aurum Crafts has built a direct-to-consumer homeware brand focused on handcrafted and semi-handcrafted wooden kitchen and home products. The Jaipur-based startup was reported

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How Three Kashmiri Founders built an Operating system for India’s Apple Industry

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Kashmir’s apple orchards have powered the region’s economy for generations. While most people saw only the problems, three young Kashmiris saw an opportunity. They decided to build something different — not just another farming app, but a complete operating system for temperate horticulture. That company is Orchardly. The Problem Traditional Farming Could No Longer Solve

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How Aditya Poddar Turned His Fitness Struggle into a ₹2 Crore/Month Protein Brand

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The Story of FitFeast What if a personal fitness struggle could become the foundation of a business? That is the story behind FitFeast, the Indian protein-snacking brand founded by Aditya Poddar. Aditya’s journey started with his own struggle to lose weight and build a healthier lifestyle. While searching for better nutrition options, he noticed a

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How Chaitanya Muppala turned Indian Cocoa into a Premium Chocolate brand

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How Manam Chocolate started India has a long history of sweets, but the premium chocolate market has traditionally been dominated by international brands. Chaitanya Muppala saw an opportunity in something much closer to home: Indian cacao. Chaitanya, a Hyderabad-based entrepreneur and the founder of Manam Chocolate, wanted to prove that cacao grown in India could

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How this Husband-Wife Duo built Mamaearth from Scratch into a ₹2,400 Crore brand

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How Mamaearth Started Mamaearth began with a problem that many new businesses are built around: the founders couldn’t find a product they actually wanted to buy. In 2016, Ghazal Alagh and Varun Alagh became parents to their first child. They were looking for safe and toxin-free baby-care products but found that the Indian market did

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How Sagar Joshi turned a small coaching centre into a National Education Brand

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The story of Sagar Joshi, founder of Law Prep Tutorial, began very differently. In the early 2000s, when law was still not considered a mainstream career choice by many Indian families, Joshi started teaching law aspirants in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. Law Prep Tutorial states that it began in 2001, while other profiles place Joshi’s initial teaching

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How MakeMyShoe has helped 300+ Footwear Brands Launch their Business with Low MOQ Manufacturing

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Starting a footwear brand sounds exciting until you begin searching for a shoe manufacturer. Most new entrepreneurs quickly discover a common problem: factories often demand high minimum order quantities (MOQs), making it difficult for startups to enter the market. For many founders, investing in large inventory before testing a product is simply not practical. This

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