ইচ্ছে থাকলে উপায় হয়, কোনও কিছুই ফ্যালনা নয়। এই কথাটা আমরা বহুবার শুনেছি। নেহাতই হেলাফেলার জিনিস। পুকুরের কচুরিপানা। তা দিয়েও যে নানান রকমারি জিনিস তৈরি করা যায় কেই বা জানত। অসমের পুষ্পি ব্রহ্ম সকলকে তাক লাগিয়ে দিয়েছেন। কচুরিপানার স্ট্র শুকিয়ে ব্যাগ মাদুর পাটি বানিয়ে কোঁকড়াঝাড়কে রীতিমত স্বাবলম্বী করে তুলেছেন।
নিজের এই কাজকে শুধু অসমের ভৌগলিক সীমানায় আটকে রাখেননি।
কচুরিপানা দিয়ে তৈরি হাতব্যাগ বা সাইড ব্যাগের কালেকশন নিয়ে হাজির হয়েছেন কলকাতায়। ঘুরছেন দেশের অন্যপ্রান্তেও। মেলায় মেলায় ঘুরে বেড়াচ্ছেন পুষ্পি। তাঁর উদ্যোগে ভর করে স্বচ্ছল হয়ে উঠছেন কোঁকড়াঝাড়ের কয়েকশ মানুষ।
কলকাতায় ট্রেড ফেয়ারের স্টল সামলাবার ফাঁকে আমাদের জানালেন তার লড়াই এর কাহিনি। বললেন, কোঁকড়াঝড়ের গ্রামেই নিজে ছোটখাটো হাতের কাজ করে হাত খরচ জোগার করতেন। আর্কিটেকচারাল ইঞ্জিনিয়ার পুষ্পি। ছোটোবেলা থেকেই উদ্যোগী মেয়ে। একের পর একটা উদ্যোগ নিয়েছেন। শিক্ষক বাবা আর সংসারের দায়িত্ব সামলানো মাও হাত গুটিয়ে বসে থাকেননি। মেয়ের উদ্যোম দেখে সহযোগিতা করতে এগিয়ে এসেছেন। মেখলা, চাদর আর বাঁশের তৈরি ট্র্যাডিশনাল জিনিসের ব্যবসা করেছেন পুষ্পি। নিজের পায়ে দাঁড়ানোর পণ করেছেন যেন। কিন্তু সেসবের বাজার বছরভর চাঙ্গা থাকত না। তাই বলছিলেন, "আমাদের ওখানে প্রচুর পরিবার ওই একই কাজ করতেন। খালি ভাবতাম নতুন কিছু যদি করা যায়, তবে তাহলে হয়তো বাজারে মোটামুটি সারা বছর চাহিদা থাকবে। এটা সেটা খুঁজছিলাম বছর দুয়েক আগে সুযোগ এল। নর্থ ইস্টার্ন ডেভেলপমেন্ট ফিনান্সিয়াল কর্পোরেশন (NEDFI) এর ক্যাম্প বসেছিল, সেখানেই খোঁজ পেলাম। থাইল্যান্ডের একটি হস্তশিল্পকে অসমে পরীক্ষামূলক ভাবে চালু করার পরিকল্পনা করছিলেন ওঁরা। সেই ক্যাম্পেই আমাদের এলাকার কচুরিপানাকে রি-সাইকেল করে একটি নতুন ধরনের হাতের কাজের ট্রেনিং নিলাম। তারপর ট্রেনিং শেষে নিজে কয়েকটা কচুরিপানার পাতা দিয়ে মহিলাদের হাত ব্যাগ তৈরি করালাম। আমার তৈরি মেখলা কিনতে আসা মহিলারাই এবার কচুরিপানার ব্যাগ পেয়ে দারুণ খুশি। অল্প কয়েকদিনের মধ্যেই সব ব্যাগ বিক্রি হয়ে গেল। বুঝলাম এতদিন ধরে যে জিনিসটা খুঁজছিলাম তার হদিশ পেয়ে গেছি।"
রাজনৈতিক অস্থিরতার কারণে দীর্ঘ সময় ধরে অসমের বেশ কিছু অঞ্চলে দীর্ঘদিন ধরে ব্যবসা মন্দার মধ্যে দিয়ে চলছিল। পর্যটনেও তার প্রভাব পড়ে। সেই সব প্রভাব কাটিয়ে ধীরে ধীরে আবার নিজের স্বাভাবিক ছন্দে ফিরেছে কোকড়াঝাড়। সে সুযোগটাই কাজে লাগালেন পুষ্পি।
জমানো পঞ্চাশ হাজার টাকা লাগিয়ে দিলেন নতুন কাজে। এলাকার কর্মহীন মহিলাদের নিজেই প্রশিক্ষণ দিলেন। কাঁচামালের যোগান এলাকার পুকুর থেকেই তুলে নিলেন। তাঁদের শেখালেন কিভাবে সঠিক জলকুম্ভি বা কচুরিপানা বাছাই করতে হয়। তারপর সেই আড়াই বা তিন ফুট লম্বা কচুরিপানা শুকিয়ে কেমিক্যাল ট্রিটমেন্ট করে হাতের কাজের উপযোগী করে তোলা ছিল তার বাঁ হাতের খেল। দক্ষতার সঙ্গে বুনে তৈরি হতে লাগল সাইড ব্যাগ, হ্যান্ড-ব্যাগ, ঘর সাজানোর নানা উপকরণ।
তার নিজের কথায়," আমাদের এলাকায় বেশ কিছু মহিলা ট্রেনিং নিলেন, তারপর ২০১৩ এর শেষের দিকে আমি কোঁকড়াঝারে আমার দোকানে নতুন কয়েকটা প্রোডাক্ট তুললাম। স্থানীয় লোকজন আর পর্যটকদের মধ্যে খুব জনপ্রিয় হল সেগুলো। কিন্তু ততদিনে আমার টিমে প্রায় ৩০ জন সদস্য হয়ে গিয়েছে। চিন্তা ছিল বাজারটা কি করে আরও বড় করা যায়। শেষমেশ আগের মত শুধু কোঁকড়াঝাড়েই না আটকে রয়ে যাই। অন্য লোকজনের সঙ্গে কথা বলে বুঝলাম ভিন রাজ্যে বাজার না ধরতে পারলে মুস্কিল। অন্য রাজ্যের বিভিন্ন সরকারি মেলায় অংশগ্রহণ করা শুরু করলাম। গোয়া,বোম্বে,দিল্লি ও কলকাতার বিভিন্ন মেলায় যোগদান করলাম। বিভিন্ন রাজ্যের ক্রেতাদের সঙ্গে সরাসরি যোগাযোগ করছি। ক্রেতাদের কাছ থেকে তাদের চাহিদা মাফিক পণ্যের ডিজাইনে নানা পরিবর্তন করি। অনেক কিছু শিখলাম। কয়েকজন পাইকারি ক্রেতার সঙ্গে যোগাযোগ হল।ভিন রাজ্যে মাল পাঠানো শুরু করলাম।ব্যাবসায় অনেক বদল এল। এখন আর আমার গুয়াহাটি ও কোঁকড়াঝাড়ের ম্যানুফ্যাকচারিং ইউনিটের ৪০ জন সদস্যের নিয়মিত কাজের যোগানের জন্য চিন্তা করতে হয় না।উল্টে সময়মত অর্ডার পাওয়া প্রোডাক্ট তৈরি করতে পারলাম কিনা তার চিন্তাই ভাবায়। জলে ভাসা কচুরিপানা যে আমায় একটা শক্ত মাটিতে দাঁড় করাবে তা কোনওদিন স্বপ্নেও ভাবিনি। সত্যি খুব অবাক লাগে, ভালও লাগে।"
কোঁকড়াঝাড়ে পুষ্পির সাই ইন্ডাস্ট্রিজ এখন বেশ পরিচিত নাম। পুষ্পির কচুরিপানার তৈরি হাতব্যাগ ঝোলাব্যাগ কলেজপড়ুয়াদের কাছে রীতিমত হটকেক। সময়ের সঙ্গে বদল এসেছে অনেক। কমবেশী চল্লিশটি পরিবার, শদুয়েক মানুষ এখন কচুরিপানার পণ্য বানিয়ে বেঁচে আছেন। পুষ্পির দেখাদেখি আরও অনেকেই এই কাজের সঙ্গে নিজেদের যুক্ত করতে উৎসাহী

Foodtech startups in India have taken center-stage the last couple of months, even overtaking the spotlight from the Indian e-commerce space. From expanfsion plans of biggies like Zomato and FoodPanda, to recent funding rounds of startups like Swiggy, TinyOwl, Dazo (formerly TapCibo) and Grab.in, there seems a trend of not just customers but also VCs putting their money where their mouth is. After all just the food services industry is touted to be a $50 billion market and growing at 16-20% each year.

While you may hear of startups once they turn big or in the news for funding, at YourStory we have been able to discover promising new ones much earlier. Here’s a look at the food startups that presented during our Food Tech Crowd Pitch Challenge last month in Bangalore, held in collaboration with crowd engagement platform Catapooolt.

Feazt: The platform brings together housewives, aspiring chefs, networkers, foodies and travellers who wish to meet-up over food. Now with Feazt one may never need to eat alone.

Bueno Kitchen: A platform that let’s one order and deliver food from their own, franchise or partner spoke kitchens. So whether it’s Lebanese, Mexican, American, Indian, Asian, Italian or any other European cuisine, Bueno aims to provide something for everyone.

Cheqmate: They are attempting to create a more efficient order and pay restaurant system primarily with the help of one’s phone. By using data, facilitating cashless payments and automating the process of ordering food, their goal’s to make queues a thing of the past.

Clozerr: This marketing and loyalty automation platform seeks to help businesses retain, acquire, reward, engage, analyse and reach out to their customers. Here customers can check-in at their favourite places with a single tap and get rewarded.

DudeGenie: For all food needs, grocery purchases and anything else one may need, DudeGenie will help deliver it to them. All one needs to do is to text (SMS or WhatsApp) to make one’s life much more convenient.

FalafelFactory: This startup saw a great potential in authentic Middle Eastern food in India and now offers them on-the-go to customers. Through their central kitchens, partner outlets and low cost delivery teams, access to Falafels will be made easy.

FromaHome: They are attempting to solve the challenge of home cooked food not being easily accessible by single men and women across Indian cities. This is being pursued by creating a community of homemakers and good cooks willing to list their menu online to receiving orders.

Tandurust: This startup reaches out to fitness enthusiasts, health conscious people as well as those with medical conditions and helps deliver healthy and balanced meals to their offices and homes.

Gullu’s Kitchen: This food startup makes use of college campus to set-up their kitchen, and from there reach out to people. The main target is the student community, who are believed to have frequent hunger pangs, fewer options to buy food and can make better use of technology to order food.

HomeKitch: Here’s another startup that provides a platform for home-makers, professional cooks to list their food items for bachelors, students and other people to order online. They feel households will be able make additional income as there’s a demand for homemade food in Indian cities.

HungryBells: This app seeks to make use of the hyperlocal trend to help customers discover their favourite food items and brands. Besides discovering new dishes, they seek to provide useful information to customers based on their interests and taste profiles.

Done Solutions: For the food industry they seek to address challenges ranging from lack of multiple modes of ordering, customer engagement, options to up-sell, actionable insights and more, through their cloud-based order management, CRM and analytics platform.

EatonGo: A cloud-based breakfast and brunch restaurant with door delivery, EatonGo seeks to offer all major cuisines of the world to its customers. They are keen to focus on the health conscious and those with less time to make a healthy breakfast.

MeDine: This startup aims to drive offline consumer behaviour through data sciences and technology. In their model, restaurants pay MeDine (now BountyApp) for foot traffic, while customers get rewards by checking-in places.

Pickle&Powder: This startup has worked on a specialised food shopping portal open for all authentic and homemade specialties like masala powders, pickles and sweets.

PlaceofOrigin: Another ‘back to roots’ focused startup, Place of Origin seeks to bring legendary food from different parts of India to your homes. They work with partners who help deliver these items once customers place their orders online.

TheFirstMeal: This food-tech startup also enables individuals and businesses order breakfast and brunch at any place of their convenience. Here the breakfast can be customised in terms of menu, packaging, delivery and payment options.

The event’s startups and delegates came from all over — not just from Bangalore but also from Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai and even smaller towns like Coimbatore. These startups made elevator pitches to a connected audience and an expert panel of judges that included the likes of angel investors like Ravi Gururaj and seasoned F&B entrepreneurs like MastKalandar’s Pallavi Gupta. While the panel picked ‘Bueno Kitchen’ and ‘Feazt’ as its winners, the crowd’sfavourite turned out to be ‘PlaceofOrigin’.

It needs to be reiterated that most of these startups have been set up only a few weeks ago and it will be interesting to watch their progress in the coming months. Stay tuned for more exciting stories and event updates.

Source: Yourstory

Silicon Valley venture capitalists are getting more confident about the robust tech scene, their enthusiasm buoyed by the record level of IPOs last year, according to a report released Tuesday.

According to the quarterly Venture Capitalist Confidence Index survey by University of San Francisco professor Mark V. Cannice, VCs surveyed in the fourth quarter last year registered 3.93 on a 5-point scale of confidence. The confidence ranking notched up from the third-quarter reading of 3.89; 5 is the highest market of confidence. The recent confidence reading is also above the 3.72 average over the last 11 years. The increase indicates strong confidence in investment opportunities, the fundraising environment and more successful IPOs this year.

Cannice surveyed 28 Bay Area venture capitalists from different firms.

Cannice’s report attributes the confidence to the last year’s strong IPO market as well as the record level of investments and venture capital fundraising. Last year saw the largest number of
IPOs since 2007 and the most money raised since 2000, about $84 billion. Many valley VCs cashed out on successful deals, such as public debuts from Lending Club, which raised more than $865.5 million, and GoPro, which raised at least $491.3 million.

“We have had six IPOs in the last five quarters and as long as public markets remain open, the pipeline for liquidity is very robust,” Paul Holland, a VC with Foundation Capital, said in the report.

In addition, last year VC firms raised $29.8 billion, a 69 percent increase over the previous year and the largest gain, in both dollar amount and percentage growth, in at least nine years, according to data from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association. And VCs invested $23.4 billion into tech last year, the most since 2000.

But along with this surplus of money and confidence has come huge funding rounds — more than $1 billion in some cases — that have driven the market values of some companies through the roof.

“My concern is the recent astronomically overvalued pre-IPO prices awarded to Uber, a staggering $40 billion valuation,” said Igor Sill of Geneva Venture Management. He said he is also skeptical that Snapchat, Dropbox and Airbnb are each worthy of their $10 billion valuation.

“The environment is very good with enough capital for both early- and late-stage deals,” one venture capitalist said in the report. “The problem is that the valuations are unrealistic and the number of companies in each segment is way too many without much to differentiate them.” Nino

Source: siliconbeat

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• Fiverr.com, are you that inspirational person who is always the one to give advice to your friends during hard times or breakups? Do you know you can actually make a lot of money doing that for a lot of people. She is definitely making http://www.fiverr.com/nogalicious/give-you-instant-relief-from-sadness-or-stress , convert your idiosyncrncies to money, be it your bathroom singing, or your being a grammar nazi, do that for other people and get paid every time.

• Self Publishing, forget million rupees, hit it right and you can make a million dollars through self publishing. If you are not the one with delayed gratification, forget about this. This requires most patience and persistence, your first book will never get you even more than 10,000 bucks that you publish on Amazon unless you have already published a hard copy. You have to keep writing, and build you brand. How to start? Take a set of your blog posts, write more on them and convert them into a collection of stories, then figure out the whole process of how the Kindle program works, market yourself, think of more ideas and repeat.

• Airbnb, few months back I got chatting with Nalin Jha, how did I meet him? I had rented out his apartment for a day which he had put on Airbnb, it was a normal 1BHK in Hauz Khas, what would probably go for 30k per month. Guess how much was he making out of it? Over 1.2 Lakh a month. How? Airbnb. Have an extra apartment or even a room in your house? List it on Airbnb, it’s like renting out your space to travellers, for them it’s cheaper than a hotel, for you it’s more money than the normal rent. Your roommate is going to home next week for ten days? Time to make some hard cash  Figure out the technicalities though, if you are a tenant you might have to talk to the owner first. Btw Nalin’s place in Delhi is awesome.

Rahima Enterprise




Rahima enterprise is founded by Mr. Sujan who is now a millionaire . Before starting this venture, he sold mobile card from one place to another place by bicycle. In 2013, his turnover was 32 crore. He is very hard worker. He is the agent of several mobile companies like Bicash, Ucash, OK of one bank. He has seven or more employees who collect money by motor cycle. Do you imagine , from where he is? He lives in Noakhali. It is difficult to be a business man by selling mobile cards to customer. He could not finish his graduation. But he still is an enterpreneure. He started his venture at the very begging of his life. His age is  now around thirty. He is developing more ventures. He is exporting garments products in South Africa. His another venture is consumer product agents like Teer soyabin oil, Partex Beverage, Hoque Biscuits and so one. I am encouriging those who want start a business with low cost. I think agency business requires low investment. You can star with five lac or less capital. Some of readers of this blog sent email to me that how can i start i business with less capital. I suggest them to start this type of business. This business has some advantages. You can sell you product on cash. You need not advertisement cost. Because you are not selling your own product. The consumer is concerned about your agency's  product. At first, you have to select less branded product. Because you requires little money for security purpose. You have to go agent head office for agreement. I think for starting level, it is better choice. After developing you foundation, you can set up your portfolio. You have to be successful business man. You have no time to waste. So be careful for selecting your business field. It should be practical and reasonable business, not emotional basis. So best of luck.  

start business with no moeny
 Do You know that, you can start your own Business (Part Time or Full Time) without any Investment?  Here I am not going to sell you any kind of product. But here I am going to tell you the Truth & the power of the Technology & the Information Age.
Because the Technology in the Information Age, any school going kid having a good business idea can set up his own Business from his garage or from his School Library without any Investment now. I am talking about the Internet Businesses. Let me give you my Example. “no1idea" is my Internet Business which I have started since 2010
You will be surprised by knowing that, I have started this Business without any Investment. This Blog previously was on the platform of Blogger.com which was a Free platform. The only thing I have to spend behind my this Business is my monthly Internet Bill which is very minimal.
Now, today almost 3 years of Blogging, This Blog is making good amount of money for me every month. Thanks to Google AdSense and it’s Technology. If there was no Internet than It would be very difficult for me to start a Business without any Investment.
There are several Internet Businesses that you can start without no or minimal investment such as forums, Affiliate Marketing, eBay shop, e-Commerce website, Articles Directories and many more. This is because of the Technology.
In the Information Age, It doesn’t require money to make money anymore. It just requires an Idea to make money. And Ideas are Free. If you have an Idea than you don’t need Capital to start a Business. You can start a Business right away.
When I discuss about starting a new Business, most of my friends answer that – But Where is the Capital? or I don’t have enough money to start a Business and so on. My these friends don’t know that the Industrial age gets over in the 1990 after the birth of the Internet. Today we are in the Information age and it no longer requires money to make money. It no longer require huge Investments to start a Business.

 Today I am telling a new business ideas for you who want to start a new venture and wanna become an entrepreneur in Bangladesh. Dial a taxicab or auto rickshaw to your doorstep via mobile is a big opportunity in bangladesh. Every day taxi cab seeker waste a lot of time for hiring a taxi cab or auto rickshaw. The taxi cab walla may be waste to capture his suitable customer. So both of the parties can not reach at the proper time . A third party can solve this problem or match between two parties. I think there is a huge opportunity for this business in bangladesh. The customer hire their taxi cab or autho rickshaw before one hour time so that he can travel timely. Sometimes the auto rick shaw can be used for school going students. If any one interested to star this venture and want to know more then contaact with me.

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           List of  services:

• Parcel pickup/drop
• Utility Bill payment
• School fees
• Insurance premium payment
• Purchase of groceries / vegetables / dairy products / books / flowers
• Home deliveries for cakes / chocolates / food from restaurants etc.
• Home Cleaning: Wash n cleaning of window panes, Scrubbing/ polishing floors, Cleaning sofa upholstery
• Transport:  Lend a Car services, Pickup & drop facility
• Car Spa: Car break down, Maintenance, Repair n refurbishing, Car cleaning including interiors and seats (Door Step Service)
• Tiffin Services: Daily Tiffin services includes door step delivery lunch, dinner and snacks from a predefined menu posted
• Computers: Hardware repair, Maintenance, Upgradation
• Electrical Appliances: A/c Installation, Repair, Maintenance, Relocation services
• Hotel / Travel / Entertainment: Hotel booking, Ticket booking (Air/Rail/Road), Movie, Plays, Concerts, Holiday planning
• Assistance in Bureaucratic work: Legal Aid? Property Search, RTO, Police Verification, Employee Background verification, Passport matters
• Courier Services: Domestic, National, International
• Security Services: Private security services

Why stand in a line to pay your bills when you can have someone do it for you? Life would be so much simpler if you could hire someone to pick up your laundry instead of having to do it yourself. And now you can.
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