A True Rags-To Riches Story-A Inspirational sucess Story

Do you think that its hard to fight from poverty Here is sucess story of a teenager who was fighting poverty with his luck that changed his luck and today he is an successful photographer..

Vicky Roy

Vicky Roy has taken his street dreams to the pinnacle of its reality through the trials and tribulations of being a dhaba-boy and a coolie and fighting against the pain and pathos of grinding poverty, literally with no materialistic possessions except for irresistible aspiration, relentless hard work and determination to live a better life with bright future prospects. In spite of having to face battered circumstances that punctuated and paused his life, Vicky continues to inspire thousands of hopeless street-kids to take on their street dreams by overcoming every obstacle in their lives. Today, at the age of 25, he is an accomplished photographer.

Despite being born to appallingly poor parents in Purulia district of West Bengal, he dreamt of living a better life with better opportunities. In pursuit of his dream, at the tender age of 13, Vicky ran away from home and set off to Delhi with 800 rupees that his mother had given him to buy cement for the ongoing construction work in the house. Reality was far cruel and tough than his previous life in the claustrophobic town and he found himself to be in the midst of nowhere. Instead of returning he started his life as a rag picker rummaging through the mountains of garbage and dragging out the damaged plastic products. But very soon he faced the troubles against the local ruffians who started harassing him and snatching his earnings. Disappointed and frustrated, he took up a job as a dish washer at a local café where he worked throughout the day only for 50 rupees and spent days either without food or having guests’ leftovers. It continued until a gentle lady took pity on him and gave him the address of a children’s NGO the Salam Baalak Trust (SBT), which would take care of deprived and abandoned kids. Finally, he found a secured shelter and foods. Apart from attending the school, he would take care of the NGO’s young boys and help them with their homework.


His passion and dream emerged in 2004 while serving as an assistant to a British photographer documenting the atrocious lives of Delhi’s street kids. During the time he learnt several tricks of fine photography besides fixing the tripod for photographer, loading camera rolls, and arranging the boisterous street-kids together for a superior photo pose, and travelling through the streets of Delhi. Soon Vicky picked up photography as his profession. Street life and street kids became his favorite themes. His 25-odd photographs were selected by The India Habitat Gallery in New Delhi and titled it ‘Street Dreams’ and was sponsored by the British High Commission and the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID). He could sell seven photos at the exhibition, each for Rs 10,000 from which he purchased a digital camera for better photography and is now preparing for his second exhibition entitled ‘The Widows of India’.

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RedBus.in-An Exceptional Inspiring Sucess Story of an Student A student turned to CEO After Travelling from Bus-a Sucess Stories

A Diwali Vacation turned a goodluck for a simple startups.
Does A Startup Require a lot of idea to create a sucessful business,thats not the matter always,a problem can give rise to a great solution and enterpreneurs  which you can see in this case.

What would an event for entrepreneurs and startups be without an actual entrepreneur speaking about his/her successful entrepreneurial venture? Sharing a great story was home-grown Hyderabadi entrepreneurWho is inspiring many students, Phanindra Sama, founder of redBus, who is revolutionizing how India travels, with his site that allows you to book your bus tickets online easily. The initial idea of redBus to set up a site that allowed customers to book bus tickets in a location-independent manner, was triggered by Phanindra’s inability to visit his family during the Diwali season of 2005 due to lack of an available bus ticket. He went back to the bus operator, who had earlier tried his best to secure a bus ticket for him but failed, to find out how the entire process of ticketing worked. He tried to find answers to the questions – why is it(booking a ticket) so complex and why is it not centralized?

Along with batch-mates from BITS Pilani, he initially considered venturing into redBus as a part-time job. “Business was not on our mind,” Phanindra mentioned. Since none of them had a web technology background, they started by reading up and figuring out the space themselves and using their common sense mostly. “We wanted to do something to solve this problem, and our educational background has given us the analytical skills required,” he offered.

Phanindra went on to explain that they currently have three products – BOSS for bus operators that provides the easy access to bus information and seat inventory, redbus.in which acts as a consumer facing travel agency, and Seat Seller which provides information to travel agents. “Each product fuels the other and growing one product also results in growth of the others,” he added. They have call centers, a website and franchisees in Mumbai and with this they have taken a ‘highly fragmented bus industry’ and shaped it by aggregating information and centralizing it.

Phanindra also went on to point out the opportunity that they see as a business. The bus industry is a $2.5 billion unorganized business. RedBus currently sells around 220 million tickets/year(contract carriage buses). The market is growing at 35-40% p.a. Other factors in favour of this growth are better roads, increased urbanisation leading to an increased need for travel,  and scalability (with the lack of a need for railway tracks/airports).


What makes work exciting for Phanindra and his team is the contribution and the ability to full fill a need. “Launching redBus.in has created a level playing field in the bus industry due to its unprecedented distribution with one main distribution network, providing access to nearly 40,000 travel agents across the country”, he says. They are able to research and help bus operators start new routes which goes on to help increase the market size. The technology aspect enables the supply demand match by helping both bus operators and customers. When trains are canceled, they are able to see the requirement and reorganize routes/buses.

Their business enjoys a huge network effect and they enjoy high trust from bus operators since they stuck to standard commissions and didn’t ask for an increase based on increased volumes. Staying format independent by ensuring an online presence, having call centers as well as franchisees ensures that they fit in as an organized travel company in India. They are also excited about BOSS installations in Bangladesh and Malaysia.

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GlobalScholars-An Inspiring sucess Story

 This is an Inspirational Stories I have Read And liked it greatly since not only he is from chennai but the main thing is he educating other people with what he gained and Learned  from poverty..
Here is the rags-to-riches story of an extremely talented boy from a small village in Tamil Nadu who has risen to be the chief executive  officer of a company in Seattle, USA.
It Is an Inspiring Story Through Sheer Hardwork,passion,education Anyting can be possible.
It is also the story of how Kalyana Raman Srinivasan, who was so indigent that he had to study under a streetlight, but then managed to score excellent marks, rose in life and became today's Kal Raman.



At every turn in his life, he took the difficult path and it turned out to be the right one and in the right direction. His rise to the top is

more dramatic than a thriller. Today, he is a very successful entrepreneur and the founder-CEO of GlobalScholar.

Kal Raman was born and brought up in a small village called Mannarakoil in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu. It was a comfortable normal middle class life for him and his siblings as his father was a Tahasildar there.
But the sudden death of his father at the age of 45 changed everything overnight.
Kal was 15 then. "My mother got a pension of Rs 420 a month and you can imagine how tough it is to educate four children and feed five
mouths with Rs 420?"

He was 15 years old and had 420 Rs for his family  in which he had to meet up the basic neds of life.
Hi life changed dramatically after his father's death. The family moved from the rented house to a hut that had no proper water supply orelectricity. Kal Raman remembers, "All of us used to study under the streetlight and, thank god, the streetlights used to work those days! MGR (M G Ramachandran) was the chief minister then. We had to sell the plates to buy rice to eat and my mother used to give us rice in our hands. That bad was our situation."

But his mother, who had studied till the 8th standard, was very particular that her children studied. "All our relatives wanted my elderbrother to stop studying and take up the small job offered by the government but my mother wanted him to continue studying."

"Then they wanted me to learn typewriting and shorthand so that I could get some job after the 10th  standard. But mother said, 'My children are going to get the best education I can offer. Education is our salvation.' She was my hero for her vision and she still is my hero."

He didn't know why he used to tell his mother, "One day I will give you so much money that you will not know what to do with it!"  After Years Passed He Did Exactly!!

But, what’s inspiring is his life before he went to US as a TCS software engineer. His father passed away when he was barely 15, and he had to finish his schooling with the meager pension that his mother got. He was a brilliant student. In Tamil Nadu where Kal is from, your brilliance is measured based on whether you get a seat in either engineering or medical college. He got both. With poverty weighing heavily on him, he had to struggle through his days at Guindy College of Engineering in Chennai and eventually landed a job at Tata
Consulting Engineers in Mumbai. He attended the first day of his work with no shoes on. His manager was not impressed and asked him to come in shoes from next day. “I said I couldn’t,” he told Rediff. ”This the manager construed as arrogance “How could you talk like this?” he asked me. I said, “Sir, it is not that I don’t want to, but I can’t afford to buy shoes.”  His manager then asked him where he was
staying. Raman replied: “Dadar Railway station”.

The Manager the provided him with one month salary in advance And helped him to find a friend place to stay.Then his life started to blossom.

Yet, to read that Kal Raman might occupy the corner office at Groupon following the exit of its founder Andrew Mason was heartening. In
the stories on contenders for CEO post, journalists mention Raman’s experience in companies such as Walmart, eBay and Amazon, and his strengths as an operations guy. 

Raman came to global attention when he became Groupon’s COO last year.He is been asked for CEO Of Groupon Whether He will Take Or not thats The Question??

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QuickHeal-An Inspiring Sucess Story of an indian

Here is An Inspiring Story of an Indian who Turns all stones of his life info a Gold A true sucess story.
When one door closes, another opens. It's been like that right through Kailash Katkar's life. Every time an opportunity looked like dimming, another emerged for him. The founder and managing director of the over Rs 200-crore antivirus software maker Quick Heal Technologies, however, puts it differently. He says his success was largely the result of his ability to sense changes in technology early.

 Katkar gave up formal education after he passed the Secondary School Certificate examination in the mid-1980 s because of his family's circumstances. His father was a machine setter in electricals company Philips in Pune and his mother was a homemaker. Katkar relied on his interest in technical matters to learn how to repair the then popular office gadgets such as Facit adding machines, desktop electric calculators and ledger posting machines.The going was fairly good, but

Katkar could see the tide turning in favour of computers. So he acquired the skill to fix computers and was soon signing annual maintenance contracts (AMCs) to maintain these machines.

That was the early nineties and the dreaded phenomenon of 'viruses' had also set in. "In those days a virus travelled from a floppy disc to a computer, paralyzing the system. The creators of viruses did not intend to steal data and use it for financial gains. They were happy to cause nuisance by simply damaging data," Katkar recalls. He sourced standard solutions to deal with the problem. "There was no concept of removing a virus. We reformatted the computer. This was a built in feature of our AMCs," Katkar says.

Meanwhile, Katkar's brother Sanjay had completed higher secondary and was thinking of pursuing electronics at the graduate level. Katkar coaxed him into enrolling for a BSc programme in computer science, arguing that information technology was the opportunity of the future. At the time, about 50,000 unique viruses were emerging each day. Prominent among them were Happy Birthday Joshi and Michaelangelo. Sanjay chose development of antivirus solutions for these as project work for his BSc course and was successful in finding ways to address the problem.

It was the mid-1990 s and the internet was becoming popular. "It also meant greater risk for computers as it created another channel for viruses to reach the machines," says Katkar.

The brothers built on Sanjay's BSc project to create a larger anti-virus solution, but nobody was willing to pay for it. So the Katkars distributed the solution free with the computer AMC and also circulated it among their network of computer service professionals.

"Then came deadly viruses like One Half and Natash. Only our antivirus could decrypt the files they encrypted," Katkar recollects, indicating that even the global big names in the antivirus business were not up to the task. "That was the birth of Quick Heal as a business idea — a solution that would reside on a machine and tackle problems as they cropped up."

But Katkar faced the typical predicament of a first generation entrepreneur — lack of marketing muscle. Banks did not understand his work enough to take the risk of lending him money. He appointed a distributor. The distributor raised sales volumes, but filched part of the sales proceeds. Katkar recognized this and decided to build his own team. The effort paid off. Today, Quick Heal's products command a 35% share of the home PC and small and home office PC segment of the antivirus market. The enterprise solutions market is still largely in the grip of MNCs.

 Katkar has opened sales offices in Japan and the US. The Quick Heal product family has been recognized as establishing industry benchmarks by international computer security certification organizations. In 2010, private equity investor Sequoia Capital invested Rs 60 crore in Quick Heal. "This is helping us in our development and marketing strategies and to professionalize the organization," Katkar says. The company expects to end this year with a revenue of Rs 225 crore, up from Rs 10 crore just a decade ago.

Sanjay, who heads the technical side of the business, and his team are currently busy developing solutions for the mobile digital devices market. Katkar is sure mobile is where future computing will be. "It will also help us step up our reach into the enterprise arena," he says.

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