The Entrepreneur Way 1567: Building Ventures from Zero to One with Rahul Narvekar Founder and Co-Owner of Scale Venture Fund
Rahul Narvekar founder CEO of The India Network and Founder Director of Scale Ventures - an early stage investment fund, Rahul is an entrepreneur who started his career at an early age, as a door to door salesman to support his education. After being expelled from his entrepreneurship programme for asking “too many questions” and “being a trouble maker” his maiden venture in cable advertising was in 1994. In 1999, he setup Asia’s first interactive music channel - Channel Oxygen in Bombay. It was love for C. Pallavi Rao that made him move to Delhi where he started from scratch in a completely new field of work: Mall Management. He rose from the level of a Senior Manager to becoming the VP of Ansal Plaza, the first mall of India. Moving with and ahead of times being his forte, in 2009 he set up Fashion and You which was one of the earliest e-commerce fashion portals and raised more than $ 58 million for the same. In 2013 he partnered with NDTV to set up Indian Roots for selling Designer and Ethnic wear to the Global Indian diaspora. Exiting this in 2016 he set up Scale Ventures group - an early stage angel fund as also The India Network, an on-ground community for start-ups focused on Tier 2, 3, 4 and beyond cities of India and students. His passion and intent to create value for start-ups and entrepreneurs from the smaller towns of India, led him to take a cohort of 15 promising start-up founders and some young student entrepreneurs to the United States for an intensive boot camp and pitch their ideas to investors from Silicon Valley in September 2017, helping 5 start-ups raise funds and with others getting mentored.
“be shameless. The day you stop giving an F about what anybody else thinks about you you will start doing more stuff, you will start taking more chances. And a lot of times it’s just that if you do it more number of times will get good at it and you will get better at it and you will have a better shot… Just keep doing, doing, doing. So, keep hustling ”…[Listen for More]
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