PRESENTATION ON : “entrepreneurship” PREPARED BY “SUJEET YADAV”

1. PRESENTATION ON :
“entrepreneurship”
PREPARED
BY
“SUJEET YADAV”

3. The Journey
 2000 - Started as a freelance photographer without any studio (used to take studio on rent).
 2001 - Sold his camera and joined Japan Life, a multi level marketing company.
 2002 - Started a company in partnership with three more people but the company closed within
period of six months.
 2003 - Wrote a book on marketing and started a consultancy firm. Failed again and got back to
what he was really passionate about - photography.
 2004 - Created a small studio set-up at home and started expanding the portfolio making business by
hiring few assistant photographers.
 2005 - Conceived the idea to start a stock photography website and started working on ImagesBazaar.
 2006 - Launched www.imagesbazaar.com with just 8,000 images shot by a few photographers.
“ We are judged by what we finish, not by what we start .”

4. Awards and Accolades
 Sandeep was adjudged as one of the “India's Most Promising Entrepreneurs" by the “Business World”
magazine in March, 2009.
 “ Star Youth Achiever Award " instituted by the Global Youth Marketing Forum.
 “ Young Creative Entrepreneur" Award by the British Council, a division of the British High
Commission
 “ Pioneer of Tomorrow" Award by the "ET Now" television channel.
 Created a World Record in fashion photography (Published in the “Limca Book of Records 2004”).
“ Success comes from experience and experience comes from bad experience ”

5. Five tips for young entrepreneurs
 Start small: Don't waste too much time thinking about something; just get down to doing it.
 Be a jack-of-all-trades: You will have to know everything about everything to be a successful
businessman.
 Respect your team: They are the ones who will stand by you.
 Remain up to date: Don't wait for the rules to change. Be the game changer instead.
 Remember there is always a larger purpose in life and that there is much more to the world
than your existence.
 Remember this at all times.
“ Don’t be afraid to stand for what you believe in, even if that means standing alone.”

6. Maheshwari dropped out of Kirori Mal College, Delhi, in the third year
of B.Com. Sandeep Maheshwari is the Founder and CEO of
ImagesBazaar, the world's largest collection of Indian images.
A world record holder in photography.