‘If you believe in your idea, do it now’ – 50 quotes from Indian startup journeys
From data to dreams, witness the memorable journey of Indian entrepreneurship in these excerpts and stories! StoryBites is a weekly feature from YourStory, featuring notable quotable quotes in our articles of this past week (see the previous post here). Share these 50 gems and insights from the week of August 30 - September 5 with your colleagues and networks, and check back to the original articles for more insights!
The Indian retail market is still largely (92%) unorganized.
- Tanutejas Saraswat, ShopKirana
The retail sector in Asia is undergoing a significant transformation as organized retail develops in tandem with e-commerce.
India is going mobile-first.
- Anand Chatterjee, TopDoctorsOnline
Building the trust of app users is the only long-term solution to resolve the issue of privacy.
Now customers are fine even to allow third party carpenters and cleaners at home.
Coimbatorains have a distaste for the valuation game and they build businesses for life.
- Arvind Subramanian, FHS Idea Labs
There are many hidden startup ideas in small cities also. VCs and investors must look for them too.
- Shashank Sharma, BhangaarChand
India has 40-50 million street animals, more than 10 million pet owners and 40 million animal lovers. The market size for animal care and welfare is USD 965 million.
What happens when the speed of innovation outstrips the pace of regulation?
If you don’t get the complete chain of customer experience perfect, you can’t become a brand.
You have to dream things that have never been imagined.
Try to learn from every single experience of your life. But, never fail at the same point again and again.
In the field of online learning, one needs to experiment a lot; and remain nimble.
Predictive analytics-based omni-channel personalisation has the power to make online retail more profitable.
- Anand Katakwar, Retail Automata
We should not be fooled and taken for a ride by people wanting to make quick bucks.
The vernacular language revolution is upon us.
- Sahil Kini, Aspada Investment Advisors
Belonging to the Marwari community, taking up a job was never on the cards for me.
- Roshan Desarda, Punexpress.com
We see massive growth in the modular furnishing market in India.
- Prashanth Prakash, Accel Partners
The Indian market is waiting to be disrupted by marketplace lenders who, with technology, are going to disintermediate banks and NBFCs.
The food-tech space in India is heating up.
India is the only place where restaurants do not expect you to wear a jacket.
Home delivery is no longer a novel concept.
I am inspired by Make in India.
The Indian woman, who is more confident than ever before is indulging herself in lingerie to express her individuality.
It is going to be a long and difficult journey to un-train customers from entering promo codes, and making them pay full price for a product.
If the best practices of scaling companies can be shared by those who have done it before, we can see more success stories emerge.
- Girish Mathrubootham, FreshDesk
An open and transparent culture sends a strong message to the workforce.
- Pradeep Malhotra, Blue Jeans
Each new design is a learning experience.
– Bilseng and Shreya Debi, Bumbum
The art is in knowing one thing very deeply. Once you learn deeply then you are easily able to understand any other field deeply by building connects.
- Varun Aggarwal, Aspiring Minds
Resist the temptation to be the sixth one in the same sector.
- Ravi Gururaj, Frictionless Ventures
To be the first has its own challenges.
Enterprises need to transform for digital multichannel engagement to deliver next-generation experience to consumers.
You must know something about the city you sell in.
Entrepreneurship is a journey of understanding your strengths and weaknesses.
Teachers should be the best minds in the country.
– Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
The dream is to live a life with purpose, to be a part of creating a better and happy world.
- Atish Rathi, WHAT Club
Hold on to the good mentors, as they are not easy to find.
- Ankita Shroff, SAV Chemicals
What can be more inspiring than the response you get from your loyal users.
- Rashi Menda, Founder, Zapyle
Learning is application based with job orientation.
– Neha Bhuwania, FxMantra
When you see people living in extreme conditions and still courageous enough to survive, you tend to stop making excuses for your own life.
- Swati Jain
Every child rehabilitated is a huge victory.
- Dr Shubhada’s Bhandavya
We are obsessed with feeding the mouth, not the mind.
- Shefali Shah
People who play sports find it very easy to overcome disadvantages or challenges.
- Shiba Maggon, basketball gold medallist
Sports gave me confidence and the strength to cope with my disability.
- Malathi K. Holla, fastest female Indian athlete on a wheelchair
Running a business is like riding a bicycle. The day I stop pedalling, I will fall down.
– Amish Mody, EcoCorner
Turning unemployment into entrepreneurship will create a world without poverty.
- Prof Mohammad Yunus
What will have a long term impact is increasing opportunities for women to work from home.
- Sonal Gupta, Eazelly
It is the timing which is an integral part of any venture.
- Ankita Tandon, CouponDunia
Women interested in STEM shouldn’t just wait for institutional change. Instead, we should also leverage our abilities in STEM without letting external factors impede us.
- Nisha Holla
Most traditional artists consider their art a form of worship, and the act of creation comes directly from the heart.
- Aditi Garg, Adirag
If you believe in your idea, do it now.
- Romilla Tewari, Eunio Designs
YourStory has also published the pocketbook ‘Proverbs and Quotes for Entrepreneurs: A World of Inspiration for Startups’ as a creative and motivational guide for innovators (downloadable as apps here: Apple, Android).