idea → first rupee ✱ ₹3cr in 90 days ✱ 8000 km on one train ✱ shipped ugly on a tuesday ✱ retro hindi on loop ✱ claude code till 2am ✱
idea → first rupee ✱ ₹3cr in 90 days ✱ 8000 km on one train ✱ shipped ugly on a tuesday ✱ retro hindi on loop ✱ claude code till 2am ✱
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01 Mesa School of Business New Business · Mar–Jul 2026
India's first startup summer school, 0→1
Built it with the founder — positioning, pricing, GTM, admissions and the residential programme itself.
225
students, ₹1.5L ticket
59
student ventures, ₹40L+
Building a ₹3cr business from scratch →
IDEA →
₹1
Fig. 1 — nobody sits a mock test
02 goSTOPS Youth Hostels Growth · 2025
Customer first, employee later
Slept in their bunks long before the laptop. Post-Series A I owned 0→1 product and growth: Workations, Co-living, loyalty and retention.
I built a travel pass for myself →
03 Kirana Club — acquired by Meesho New business · 2023–24
A social network for kirana uncles
Shopkeepers posting about shampoo sachets, and me on the phone with them every week. Ads, brand surveys, and a B2B newsletter.
10%
of revenue, survey product
2.5k+
newsletter subscribers
kirana club
Sharma Kirana
Kanpur · 2h
2,480 likes · 312 comments
Fig. 3 — the feed
04 Experiences that made me rich 15+ states · 12+ countries
SLEEPER · S4
JAGRITI · S5
500 FOUNDERS
15 DAYS · 8000 KM
Fig. 4 — Jagriti Yatra: 15 days, 500 entrepreneurs, one train
Jagriti Yatra
15 days meeting the people quietly building India outside the metros.
Jungli Nomad Town
A town in a forest, built on questionable wifi.
05 Community-first initiatives Communities · cups · quizzes
IRL Travel
700 travellers in one WhatsApp group, and irltravel.in shipped with Claude Code to mine the good stuff.
Cups & quizzes
100+ founders through BLR Cup, 40 a month at NS Cup, one SRK quiz. No panels, ever.
Boli, at Ashoka
1,500 learners, 6 languages, 100+ meetups — and a campus language festival, 400+ strong.
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