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How I Started Selling Vermicompost & Organic Potting Mix Online to Earn Rs 4...
Growing up, Tamil Nadu’s Azhaku Dheeran (36) watched closely how her father, a farmer, prepared vermicompost to get a flourishing harvest. She’d often help him in its preparation and handling. Years...
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Entrepreneur at 88, Woman Whips up Hair Oil With 150-YO Recipe That Stops...
When Karnataka-native Nagamani was 24 years old, she experienced extreme hair fall. Her 60-year-old friend from Mysore shared a hair oil formula and assured her that it will do wonders for her hair....
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Mumbai Couple Use Traditional Knowledge to Build ‘Eco-friendly Farm Stay of...
Speaking to the founders of Nashik’s Utopia Farmstay, husband and wife duo Adwait and Uttara Kher, one learns a lot. They both worked in the hospitality industry and met when employed at the Taj. They...
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Couple Uses Fermented Rice Water to Launch Skincare Startup, Get 1 Lakh...
Toiling in the corporate field as a software developer and a digital marketer for years, Stuti and Ankit Kothari, a couple from Kolkata, had no time to take good care of their hair and skin. Working in...
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Zero-Power Instant O2 Generator Saves Lives, Ordered by Cochin & Bengaluru...
In 2015, mechanical engineer John Joy came up with an award-winning concept of making oxygen readily available anywhere, at any time, and more importantly, during golden hour — the first hour after a...
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Indian-American’s Ayurvedic Oil for Hair Fall Has Fans in Mindy Kaling,...
From working at Lehman Brothers and being laid off during their bankruptcy period in 2008 to founding RANAVAT, a skin care brand retailing across US and Europe, Michelle Ranavat finds a mention amongst...
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How I Built a Rs 500 Crore FMCG Empire as a First-Generation Entrepreneur
How do you build a Rs 500 crore business as a first generation entrepreneur? It’s a question 50 year-old cosmetic engineer Dolly Kumar, founder and director of Cosmic Nutracos Solutions, seems to have...
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Homemakers Turn Love for Traditional South Indian Snacks into Biz, Reach US &...
Uma Chandrasekar and Uma Natarajan became friends by virtue of going for a morning walk every day in Chennai. The sexagenarians would catch up every morning, exchange pleasantries and chit-chat about...
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Homemaker Takes Tips from Farmer Dad, Earns Rs 4 Lakh/Year With Vermicompost Biz
Hailing from a farming family, Ariyalur-native Azhaku Dheeran used to help her father in agriculture. But it was only after years that she thought of growing some crops of her own in her home garden....
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Queen of Kokum: Woman Sells 12 Tonnes of Homemade Squash/Day, Has Turnover in...
Lalita Sanjay Khaire (50), a resident of Pune, started a business making kokum sharbat almost two decades ago. For three years, she was running a loss-making venture. But with her venture Kokanraj, she...
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Doctor’s Traditional Mix for Babies Earns Rs 3 Cr/Year, Gets Orders From...
When Dr Hemapriya Natesan delivered a baby girl in 2014, she had a lot of questions and apprehensions about what she could feed her baby among others. She also joined parenting and ‘mom groups’ on...
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I Quit My Job to Give a Modern Makeover to Traditional Juttis, Empower 200...
Delhi-born Laksheeta Govil says that she was clear from a very early age that she wanted to be an entrepreneur. When she was younger, she’d sell candles, cards and other handmade items to family and...
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Man Helps Fortune 500 Companies & Apartments Recycle E-Waste, Earns Crores
E-waste is a problem entrepreneur Raj Kumar recognised way back in 2010 when he was working in the IT sector. Raj started his career in the IT industry in 1996. By 2005, he had already founded his...
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Kerala Woman Turns Jackfruit & Tapioca Into Organic Mixes, Sells Across India...
It came as a shock for the family, says Francy Joshimon, when her father was diagnosed with cancer in 2018. “He was a very active person and always particular about eating healthy food. We couldn’t...
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5 Women Founders Share Crucial Learnings & Advice for Female Entrepreneurs
From pharmaceuticals and beauty to technology and venture capital firms, women are now finding their space in various sectors across the board. We look at five women founders who have broken the...
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Delhi Baker Started From His Bedroom, Now Earns Rs 24 Lakh/Year From His Hobby
As a young child, Deep Singh Bawa, like many others his age, loved eating sweets and desserts of various kinds. As he grew up that love transformed from just consuming them to trying to make them as...
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After Losing Job During Pandemic, Goan Girl Builds Business Using Mom’s...
This article is part of The Better India’s series #EarnYourIndependence, with which we celebrate Indians achieving financial freedom in innovative ways. A few years ago, Yachika Chopra (34) was a...
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Kerala Mechanic Launches ‘Buzzing’ Business, Harvests 1500 Kg of Organic Honey
Three decades ago, while Bensislas was working as an electronic mechanic, he would have never imagined that some day, he would take up beekeeping and find success in it. Though he was skilled at...
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College Student Started Home Services Biz with Rs 5000, Now Has Turnover of...
This article is part of The Better India’s series #EarnYourIndependence, with which we celebrate Indians achieving financial freedom in innovative ways. While spending most of his childhood days...
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Homemaker Starts Cloud Kitchen With Rs 20K Gold Loan, Gets Over 100 Orders/Week
Like thousands of people, Aluva-resident Raji Shakthi lost her job when the coronavirus pandemic struck three years ago. She was an educational counsellor and worked for a private institute in the...
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