Indian Entrepreneur Success Stories – Who Started With Nothing

By Mamta Chhikara | bizztor.com

With the help of this post, we are sharing you the success stories of 7 Indian entrepreneurs who successfully started with almost nothing. Indian Entrepreneurs Sucess Stories which will inspire you.
These stories hopefully will inspire you through your startup journey and will keep you motivated.   (these are not in any specific order or based on specific criteria)

P C Mustafa ( Coolie’s Son who Set Up 100 Crore Company with just 25,000 )

This is the story of a man who failed in Class 6, but went on to join the Regional Engineering College (now the National Institute of Technology), Calicut and the Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore.
This is the story of a man who decided to become an entrepreneur and employ people from rural India.
Today, fresh idli and dosa batter made by P C Mustafa’s company ID Fresh reaches homes in Bengaluru, Chennai, Pune, Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Mangaluru and even Dubai.
Today, we produce around 50,000 kg in our plant. The total investment must be around Rs 4 crore (Rs 40 million) and our revenue is Rs 100 crore (Rs 1 billion).
When we became a Rs 100 crore company in October 2015, we celebrated in grand scale. We have grown from producing 10 packets a day in 2005, with just my cousin managing the kitchen, to 50,000 packets a day with 1,100 employees in 10 years.
Full Story here

25 Common Characteristics of Successful Entrepreneurs

 By: Entrepreneur

Do you have what it takes to get through hard times? Here are the traits that help home-based business owners thrive. 

 

Regardless of your definition of success, there are, oddly enough, a great number of common characteristics that are shared by successful businesspeople. You can place a check beside each characteristic that you feel that you possess. This way, you can see how you stack up. Even if you don't have all of these characteristics, don't fret. Most can be learned with practice and by developing a winning attitude, especially if you set goals and apply yourself, through strategic planning, to reach those goals in incremental and measurable stages.

The Home Business Musts

Like any activity you pursue, there are certain musts that are required to be successful in a chosen activity. To legally operate a vehicle on public roadways, one must have a driver's license; to excel in sports, one must train and practice; to retire comfortably, one must become an informed investor and actively invest for retirement. If your goal is success in business, then the formula is no different. There are certain musts that have to be fully developed, implemented and managed for your business to succeed. There are many business musts, but this article contains I believe to be some of the more important musts that are required to start, operate and grow a profitable home business.

Millennials with mega-bucks: The 11 youngest billionaires in the world

By Jessica Patel • Bankrate.com

1. Mark Zuckerberg

Age: 31

Worth: More than $46 billion

How he made his billions: Facebook.
Which millennials have serious money, at an age when many of us are still drowning in student debt?
Bankrate reviewed various published reports and found that Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg remains atop the list of the richest individuals under 35.
With an estimated net worth bigger than the economies of many countries, he ranks 16th on the Forbes list of richest billionaires in the world.
See whose net worth puts them right behind "Zuck" in the young billionaires club.

Editor's note: Net worth figures were current as of Nov. 30, 2015.