Entrepreneurs are considered to be unconventional, risk takers. Their ideas are wacky and they always come up with things that no one else can think of. Here are 6 entrepreneurs whose ideas took off in a big way.

1. 5 innovative
entrepreneurial
ventures that
changed our lives.

2. Entrepreneurs are considered to be unconventional, risk
takers.
Their ideas are wacky and they always come up with
things that no one else can think of.
Here are 5 entrepreneurs whose ideas took off in a big
way.

3. Founders
Phanindra Reddy
Sama
Sudhakar Pasupunuri
Charan Padmaraju
Started from
Bangalore in 2006,
used all over the
country for booking
bus tickets.

4. RedBus
 Red bus was started when one of the founders was stranded in
Bangalore as he couldn’t get tickets to his hometown, because they
were all sold out.
 So he along with his friends decided to come to the rescue of others
who might be suffering due the same shortage of tickets.
 They came up with an idea for a portal where people wouldnt have
to rely on agents to get them tickets.
 Today the same portal is used all over the country to book bus
tickets.

5. Founders
Raghunandan G
Aprameya
Radhakrishna
Started in 2011 with
25 cabs in Bangalore
and 15 cabs in Delhi.
Today the company
has a total revenue
of Rs.100 crore

6. TaxiForSure
 This venture was started by two friends who were frustrated with
the fact that every time they needed a taxi, they had to call two or
three operators, for the glimmer of hope that they’d receive a taxi
sometime in a two or three hour time frame.
 So they decided to create a portal that would connect all the radio
taxis and make it easier for the person to ride one.
 Today Taxiforsure has a total revenue of Rs.100 crore.
 The past couple of years has seen the launch of a number of online
and mobile based taxi booking services.

7. Founder
VSS Mani
Started in 1995 after
the failure of his first
venture. Today
Justdial is India’s
number one local
search engine.

8. Justdial
 Justdial was first started as Askme in 1989.
 However the idea didn’t work much the first time around.
 It was the second time around that it was a success.
 Askme was relaunched as Justdial in 1995 and the success it
achieved was phenomenal.
 Justdial is a portal and service that gives consumers details about
any service, restaurant, shop etc that they need.

9. Founder
Murugavel
Janakiraman
Started in 1990s
when he realized
that the online
matrimony sector
was still untapped.

10. BharatMatrimony
 BharatMatrimony was first started as TamilMatrimony.com.
 The founder had initially started a portal call Sysindia.com for NRIs
and found that the matrimonial section was the most active one on it.
 He realized that the online matrimaonial sector was still untapped in
India and that it had great potential in the country.
 Being a Tamil Brahmin he started with TamilMatrimony and then
slowly expanded to other languages under the name
BharatMatrimony.

11. Founder
K Vaitheeswaran
Started in 1999. It
was India’s first
online shopping site.

12. India Plaza
 In June 1999 K Vaitheeswaran and five of his friends founded,
India’s first online departmental store.
 Initially the store only sold music CDs. They later included books,
movies, watches, and groceries.
 This was India’s first e-commerce site and the business was 7-8
years ahead of its time.

13. Founder
Dheeraj Gupta
Started in 2001. It
brought Mumbai’s
favorite snack to
the rest of the
country.

14. JumboKing
 Before Jumboking the only way to eat Vada pav was on the streets
of Mumbai, from a vender who would fry the vadas right in front of
you.
 This was neither hygienic nor safe.
 Jumboking burgerised the Vada pav. It started selling Vada pav from
franchisee stores
 Their Vada pav was properly wrapped and prepared with utmost
care for hygiene.
 They brought Mumbai’s favorite snack to the rest of the country.

15. Thank
You!