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Rupesh Malpani of Pikk.
Tell us about yourself?
just extra tenacious 😬 The thing about me you’ll never see on any records for me is my first job as a cashier at a grocery store! was roughly a decade+ years ago, since then I’ve always had a hustle on the side with everything else going on!
So hence Guys I’m all over the place, so it sometimes might be tough keeping up for me in my head. so if there’s anything please anyway don’t mind or don’t think twice before sending a connection or a message on LinkedIn! (LinkedIn is my main Email) or even tag me in a post for a matter! I’ll will try to write back as much as possible and with precise answers.
Even if my mind is all over the place, I’m still well organized to speak on pointers.
Scratch to everything is something which I find fun ‘Out of the World Idea’s!’ is and should be a benchmark! Oblivious to the obvious, so you can try asking Google Assistant! “What is Rupesh Malpani good at?”
What lessons has being an entrepreneur taught you?
patience, practical approach to life, some sort of purpose to utilize my brain well which triggers me and maybe understanding needs and people
If you could go back in time to when you first started your business, what piece of advice would you give yourself?
Do not doubt yourself, and Focus on building a professional skill to empower your fundamentals! Focus on getting customers and invest in tech sooner than you think you should – all this makes sense only now to say it but I wouldn’t change a thing
A lot of entrepreneurs find it difficult to balance their work and personal lives. How have you found that?
My work is personal to me! So it kinda becomes easy to be available for work and I end up being proactive for work! I grew up around people who always were busy.
I think I kinda saw it why it’s important to hustle way too early luckily and then that’s kinda second nature now
Give us a bit of an insight into the influences behind the company?
I dint really understand the question, but I think it means what the reasoning behind our choices.
We are bootstrapping the most expensive part of being a semi/complex software company but using public software to help businesses digital market better.
Which adds up to our company’s reputation as great tech guys! And building trust to actually build software for people we end up helping digital marketing sounds like an option where we don’t waste resources but endup building
What do you think is your magic sauce? What sets you apart from the competitors?
the way we look at problems, this may sound a little over confident! But that’s it, we have managed to be profitable all along in some ways.
We don’t have a burn rate. We have a run rate. This ability to build our own business is what we let our customers hire.
How have you found sales so far? Do you have any lessons you could pass on to other founders in the same market as you just starting out?
Do not focus on noise, start by solving problems. More problems you solve, or more solutions you come up with will literally help you path out your journey
What is the biggest challenge you have faced so far in your business, and how did you overcome it?
oh there were weeks where we would not exist if we went running behind raising capital.
But instead building a business serving customers with our parallel skills helped us get insights and kept us on a needed track I suppose – Rupesh Malpani
What do you consider are the main strengths of operating your business in India and the specific state you are in over other states in India?
To be honest, there’s both perks and cons those being good quality life for not so expensive resources but also access to technology and people who are too dedicated to the type of tech we want to try is less.
Choosing where we are operating from is mainly got to do with the people who work with the company, it’s kinda thier personal HQ’s of sorts.
What (if any) are some weaknesses of operating your business within India and your state?
Oh access to many things and slow processes, and it is kinda demeaning and insulting in meetings just to get offered less money as we are India. But not to the proportion of the problem solved.
If you could operate your business in another state in India rather than the State you are in, which state would it be and why?
I probably would not, we like Pune. Nice weather, Smart people and development pace is awesome.
India has an incredibly diverse population. How has the affected your consumer base and business?
Oh that’s the fun of it
Infrastructure is really important to businesses. How have you seen India’s infrastructure improve recently? Do you see new opportunities opening up?
Yup, and we as Pikk will try to empower that infrastructure as much and whenever best possible. We are literally trying to do that.
The business we are building the way way we are trying to will naturally help better infra here.
What do you want to accomplish in the next 5 years with your business?
Work with 10,000 microbusinesses and actually impact thier livelyhood.
And get the samp AI suite we have in design ready and actually be a profitable company with whom people would want to up skill themselves according to our ways to want to be working with us.
And finally, if people want to get involved and learn more about your business, how should they do that?
Depends. Like it’s weird to explain that it’s more hot to do with we grew up in those tariffs and expenses in a way so it’s more like what next to do to adapt to do this not like Why’s this wrong.
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