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Inspiring People
Ketan Talavia, Owner – Navrang Videomatics!
This is part of our “Inspiring People” series to narrate our experiences with the inspiring people we’ve met during the journey of Point10! We’ve had the amazing start to the year 2011. We launched Point10tv – featuring inspiring entrepreneurs and set-up the new company ‘SweetlyDesigns’ – Global marketplace for rural artisans. We’ve been getting great encouraging response for Point10tv both in terms of content and quality of the videos. You can check it yourself @ http://p10.in/tv The credit for the quality of videos goes to Ketan Talavia, Owner, Navrang Videomatics who records all our videos at our entrepreneurs10 forums. We … Continue reading
When there is a will there is a way – Kuntaben Gamit, President, Adesh Mahila Mandal
This is part of our “Inspiring People” series to narrate our experiences with the inspiring people we’ve met during the journey of Point10! Kuntaben is the President of Adesh Mahila Mandal, Sajipara village, dang district. She lives with her husband and two kids. They earn their living by harvesting seasonal crops and animal husbandry. Yet it’s very difficult for them to make ends meet and provide the best for their children. When the Forest department of Dang wanted to give training to rural women for their development, she saw a golden opportunity for herself as well as the folks of … Continue reading
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Tagged adesh mahila mandal, dang district, Inspiring People, kuntaben, Point10, RuralShakti, sweetly designs, the dangs
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What is Life for me? – Help everyone – Meet Nagindada
This is part of our “Inspiring People” series to narrate our experiences with the inspiring people we’ve met during the journey of Point10 Last week I met Nagin Dada at my native village, near mandvi. He was discussing with my dad about the boy he took to the hospital for treatment. Boy had an accident and due to severe inner bleeding suffering from digestion problems and no one in his family is educated enough to provide the right treatment, he along with his friend stayed at hospital for 10 days until doctor inform about “Ab khatare se bahar he!”. After his … Continue reading
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Inspiring blind person who is navigator for his friend – Suresh Prajapati
This is part of our “Inspiring People” series to narrate our experiences with the inspiring people we’ve met during the journey of Point10. We are working on our big project “ITI4Growth” which would potentially impact almost 2 Lacs students studying in various Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) and Kaushalya Vardhan Kendras (KVKs). I have already started visiting various ITIs and Employment Exchange offices in Gujarat to build the team for “ITI4Growth“. Today morning Employment Exchange Office, Ahmedabad organized the unique Job Fair for differently-abled people. Almost more than 100 differently-abled candidates attended the Job Fair and DesignMate (I) Pvt. Ltd. was … Continue reading
A person who helped us to JumpStart Point10 – Nirav Shah, Owner, Mahajan Book Depot
This is part of our “Inspiring People” series to narrate our experiences with the inspiring people we’ve met during the journey of Point10. I have earlier mentioned about “Ashok Ramani – A Diamond Worker who funded books for students” and “Salim Chhipa – A Cyber Cafe Owner who helped me a lot in first 3 months of Point10”. Mr. Nirav Shah ( Owner - Mahajan Book Depot) was instrumental in successfully starting Point10. When I went to him and explained my idea and vision for students, he immediately asked me to consider him in Team Point10 and he would be more than willing … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Cyber Cafe owne, diamond worker, Funding, Inspiring People, mahajan book depot, nirav shah, Point10
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True Innovation – Masarrat Misbah, Depilex Smileagain Foundation
This is part of our “Inspiring People” series to narrate our experiences with the inspiring people we’ve met during the journey of Point10. This post is written by our good friend ‘Ritesh Khandelwal‘. He blogs @ http://riteshmusing.wordpress.com/ and his perspective on diverse fields intimidates you to think beyond conventional wisdom. True Innovation – Masarrat Misbah, Depilex Smileagain Foundation There are times in life when you may completely fall short of words to express a happening or an incident. Narrating what you have felt or seen is a task !! Yesterday was exactly the day. I got to meet a Pakistani entrepreneur, … Continue reading
A 7th grade student with amazing confidence and attitude towards life – Dilip Bhadoriya
Last week I was in Gwalior to attend the “Infotsav” organized by IIITM, Gwalior. After completing my session I went to see the much talked about Gwalior Fort. What do you want to see in this fort? As I was moving around to see different parts of the Fort, one 12 year boy curiously asked me the question. I am new to this place, so trying to understand what all is about and what’s the history behind it? I liked the way he asked me the question confidently and I replied to that. Then he very fluently started bombarding me … Continue reading
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Tagged dilip bhadoriya, gwalior, Gwalior Fort, IIITM, Inspiring People
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A cyber cafe owner who influenced us very much the way we think. Meet Salimbhai, Owner, CyberPoint.
In the journey of Point10, we’ve met many inspiring people who influenced us very much the way we think, one such person is Mr. Salim Chhipa, Cyber Café owner based in Ahmedabad. It was in April 2009, when I had just left my job to start Point10, at that time I wanted to select a cyber café which was close to Mithakhali, crossword. Salim Bhai’s cyber café ( CyberPoint) happened to be in the same building as Crossword. Initially I was operating from a Salimbhai’s cyber café, similar to any office set up I used to go to his cyber … Continue reading
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Tagged Ahmedabad, Cyber Cafe, fifhtveda, incubator, Inspiring People, Point10, salimbhai, Sushil Handa
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Perseverance is a key to success – Ashish Doshi, Dry Snacks Salesman, Entrepreneur
Perseverance means steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose, a state, etc., esp. inspite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement. Perseverance is a key to success and very essential for any Entrepreneur. Mr. Ashish Doshi symbolizes how perseverance, hard-work and focused approach helps you in life and business. Ashishbhai sales dry snacks to corporate offices in Ahmedabad, and visits our office complex twice a week regularly. Every time he comes to office and he passionately says how good the snacks are and what are the new varieties. He never misses coming to our office and showing us his products, … Continue reading
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Tagged ashish doshi, dry snacks, Entrepreneurs, Inspiring People, perseverance, salesman
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Fund Books for 1 student for 1 Year’ – Ashok Ramani, Diamond Worker
In the May 2009, I had just left my job to start Point10, at that time the basic idea was to create a books exchange portal for students and we had also decided to fund books for 100 engineering students, just to give a nice message to people that they can also do something. I got amazing response from leading industrialists, educationists, professionals and students. But the person who really inspired me the most was Mr.Ashok Ramani, a diamond worker living in Bapunagar area. He was a resident of the same building complex as me.He came to know about our … Continue reading
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Tagged Ashok Ramani, Books, diamond worker, fund books for 1 student for 1 year
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