Varun & Rahul Aggarwal started Designhill in 2014 in New Deli, India. Now its a global business that offers graphics design from 50K registered designers from around the world. Despite a lot of online marketplaces for clients to find freelancers, Rahul and Varun saw a validation for their idea to fill a gap in the market for pure design. Excited about a $2 billion online design market, growing at a staggering +20% a year, they kept pushing through and reached profit three years after launching.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Varun & Rahul’s Dad
- Jeff Bezos
- Elon Musk
When business started difficulties overcame:
“We were novices when it came to starting a business, everything from how do you blow up a business plan, how do you draw up a marketing plan, how do you budget yourself, how do you hire people, how do you recruit professionals, these were really difficult things to do because when you want to hire a coder or a programmer and you don’t know the language it’s difficult”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses Book by Eric Ries
- Strategy That Works: How Winning Companies Close the Strategy-to-Execution Gap Book by Paul Leinwand and Cesare R. Mainardi
Favourite Quote:
“Persevere, persevere, persevere”
Recommended Online Resources:
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Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Speak to your clients. We have 24 hour support on our website. If you become an agent of your site you definitely will take the next step, you will get a lot of information and knowledge about your own product, your future product, your idea, you can validate it you can do so much with it you just have to be smart”…[Listen for More]
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Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Questioning is to thinking as yeast is to bread making. Questioning is what converts the stuff of thinking into something of value.” Jamie McKenzie
Other Quotes From the Chat with Varun & Rahul Aggarwal:
- “Never stop, not matter how many problems you might face, you might feel like this is the end of the line but trust me don’t look back, keep moving forward and you will get there because you will lose your fight when you feel you are not motivated so if you are motivated and you have your confidence in your product and what you are doing, no matter what happens you will go through it”
- “It’s important to follow through on your ideas”
- “Be smart with how you execute your ideas”
- “The 3 P’s, Patience, perseverance and persistence”
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