What Sparked a Billion Dollar Idea?

There’s a popular dialogue in Indian cinema “A business becomes successful because of a big idea.” This reel world dialogue became a reality for Mr Vishal Gupta when he started an online venture mycity4kids.com with his business partners Mr Prashant Sinha and Mr Mohammad Asif. The idea behind the online venture is attributed to the everyday troubles that parents face with respect to their children.

Before they knew their online venture climbed the popularity chart and in short span of five year time the site reached a milestone of four million visitors. The site includes vital information for parents about numerous activities, outing, camps, and best place to hold birthday parties for kids in their locality. One of the best aspects about the site is that there are more than 4,500 blogs posted on the site, majority of which are written by mothers providing important parenting tips.

Learn about the future plans of the company and what more it plans to do in the coming year.

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How India is Embracing the Silicon Valley-Style Start-up Culture

The Silicon Valley in the US is known as the epitome of business ideas. It is the place where some of the biggest ideas are born and sweep the world of its feet. Some of the most influential businesses have headquarters at Silicon Valley and many promising businesses take shape here every year. These start-ups are bringing in lots of changes in the way the world functions. No doubt a lot of affluent people are investing in these ventures. 

Back home, in India, this Silicon Valley-style investment is becoming a norm wherein big heavyweight Indians are investing in start-ups and other new ventures. Although there’s an element of risk involved in investing in start-ups, the sheer size of Indian market is what tempting both Indian and international investors to invest in new ventures in India. Read more to know what affluent Indians think about investing in start-ups in India.

How do Parents React to Business Plans?

Everyone dreams to run a business and be a successful businessmen and businesswomen. Over the last decade we have seen a number of successful start-ups and ventures in India. However, even today many eyebrows are raised when someone expresses his or her desire to start a business. It is not only the people around who are worried about the decision but often even parents are not game for business idea of their kids and do not want them leave their lucrative “big” paying job for the entrepreneurship idea. 

Have you ever wondered how the parents of successful first-generation founders reacted to their kids’ idea about starting their own business? Prashant Sinha, co-founder of MyCity4Kids, too faced this task of convincing his parents during his early days. He even resorted to not attending their calls. Read it all and more here.