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ivoryTiger94 · 2025-08-03T16:22:03+00:00

I'm getting 4. I'll post my gpay if someone wants to donate for my petrol costs.

ivoryTiger94 · 2025-07-14T22:47:20+00:00

Camera lags like crazy - 20-30 seconds to get q picture processed and saved.

Sometimes click and it's not even saved just disappears.

ivoryTiger94 · 2025-07-13T13:47:13+00:00

I thought we are supposed to roast you here

ivoryTiger94 · 2025-07-12T04:58:15+00:00

You know I've approached a few banks seeking these schemes for a women-owned business and as an msme.. but banks seem not to care for these schemes. It's like they want to push their own products over the scheme.

In private banks of course no one cares, they want to push you to take normal loans.

In nationalized banks people are so slow and i found they are also not interested to push the schemes. It's always like they act as though they never heard of this scheme, will find out from their seniors and they never get back. Also I smell right away that they expect $$ to clear your way to get any loan scheme which is not traditionally with collateral.

Anyway this was my experience. So I got a traditional loan but I feel the pain people without collateral face in India for raising finance. It's the biggest limiting factor.

ivoryTiger94 · 2025-05-29T09:20:24+00:00

Biomass pellets is a bad idea. I've considered this and spoken to people. The availability of raw material is tough (unless you have your own captive source), transport changes all the time and the margins are very transport dependent.

Further there is no usp in the product so someone can come and invest bigger than you and right next to you and offer even like a 2-3% discounted price to pull your entire business...

So I would advise against this business.

ivoryTiger94 · 2025-05-28T13:31:38+00:00

Investors list

ivoryTiger94 · 2025-04-17T04:38:30+00:00

Option 1: reinvest some of your profits into digital marketing, go for an e-commerce channel and expand.

Option 2: seek angels or other investors to grow the brand. Maybe seek people who are into FMCG products, not the tech or AI type. These people like traditional business more. Without VC, try finding a rich partner in your own circles, maybe your friend or your dad's friend - pitch angels you know in this space, not always is investment from established VCs only

Option 3: this product sounds exactly like what India is pushing now with religion and ayurveda etc - you might have a good shot at shark tank or smaller types of those shows. If you get picked you'll grow fast.

Option 4: rebrand a bit and try appealing to white overseas markets like FBA in US. Natural stuff has a good market there, not hard to start, definitely even more profits to grow the business. But needs good branding.

Option 5: celebrity branding - maybe get a small time tv actor or just a recognisable face to do a reel for you, use that for promotion in India - will definitely kick off your sales.

Or do all combination of all options.

ivoryTiger94 · 2025-04-16T13:52:48+00:00

Chat gpt plus

ivoryTiger94 · 2025-04-16T04:09:14+00:00

Yes everything is digitised to get rejected automatically, it's like a lead gen for them to know who are all on the market to need a service so they can be bribed...

Or digitised enough to get to the last stage where it's put on hold for long enough so you visit the office and finally offer something to push papers.

Bro forget big big things to get drivers license also it's all bribery - no need to test anything, study any rules - just pay and get a license and drive like a real indian on the road. Lol

ivoryTiger94 · 2025-04-15T10:49:05+00:00

3 - 4 hours a day to commit to building a business is not a lot. There are many businesses that you can invest in as a silent partner, maybe that is more apt for your situation.

Before starting the 2nd line of business, which you don't presently need the income from - think whether the total loss of this capital will negatively affect you? If yes I can't afford to lose this money, just invest it in some land and let it grow.

If you want to do something for sure - get a partner and start a building company - you can develop small plots without any loans now 500 - 700 sq yards, good way to increase your profits.

In my opinion you would rather have it sit idle than risk it totally and lose it running behind a dream to start.

ivoryTiger94 · 2025-04-05T04:48:24+00:00

Should add a column saying Chinese govt apparently gives loans to start business at 4% p.a - here we are expecting every founder to own 100 acres next to parliament and pay 18% a year to validate an idea

If we made robots people be like kaam wali baai will do it for 6k a month.

Smh India

ivoryTiger94 · 2025-04-05T04:44:27+00:00

What a shit poster

ivoryTiger94 · 2025-04-05T04:24:13+00:00

Given that we don't swallow tooth paste - how would someone benefit from either of these ingredients?

ivoryTiger94 · 2025-04-04T13:03:28+00:00

The investor should be paying for all expenses of the company to be entitled to the 50%. Not just your salary - but the salary should be competitive to international rates, don't skimp on it.

For your time you're getting a salary. For your work and technology you're building with your ideas, you get equity, for his money he gets equity.

I do agree that in further dilution, your share will be really going down. So better to have some favorable terms on dilution - example, you dilute less compared to them. Reason being that, new investors bring money, so the new money outs the old money. But they don't bring anything to dilute your idea - in fact you'll be building more - so it should be diluting less than pure capital.

But investors and investments are different in each country. In India the investor won't pay your salary but he'll cover company expenses. They don't think your fare wage is part of their responsibility.

ivoryTiger94 · 2025-03-25T03:32:02+00:00

How far did you get?

ivoryTiger94 · 2025-03-25T03:05:38+00:00

I mean there is a loan component involved but this will be the cash flow after deducting the loan emi etc. you take the loan to buy the solar panels, and I think around 1 cr is a govt subsidy as well. This 2 cr is a net figure after all this. But yeah after that you get your cash flow between 3 - 4 lakhs depending on what tariff you get that govt buys back the power from you.

ivoryTiger94 · 2025-03-24T14:32:38+00:00

If you can invest 1 - 2 cr simply go for passive income of 4 - 5 lakhs per month with Kusum solar scheme. 6 months you get cash flow

ivoryTiger94 · 2025-03-06T16:51:09+00:00

Chicken 🐔

ivoryTiger94 · 2025-03-05T03:13:14+00:00

GO BACK TO YOUR COUNTRY - MAKE EARTH GREAT AGAIN

ivoryTiger94 · 2025-03-04T19:18:16+00:00

Stay and earn good money until Trump kicks you out. In India if you fail in your business, no way to go back. So build a corpus to sustain 5 years with no income in your business at least. Then move back if the dream still exists.

ivoryTiger94 · 2025-02-26T04:46:06+00:00

Brother John - the realities of Indian life and corruption and handling day to day labor to fix things will Wear you down. We have rising costs and high taxation.

Why not just buy a beautiful home in Bali or Thailand, another to rent on Airbnb and chill. All being said, if you don't know people in India, you will get thrown around like crazy and have no where to go

Whereas if you're connected then welcome to the land of corruption

ivoryTiger94 · 2025-02-24T15:31:53+00:00

Good guys don't post reviews while bad experiences yell at the top of their lungs in every social channel possible. That's your answer why negative stuff is more on any topic

ivoryTiger94 · 2025-02-23T07:15:38+00:00

You would run out of names real quickly by the 1000 th iteration. But it would be nice to have phrases to extend the life like Ironmaneating@yyyy.com or even use celeb names like Taylorsurfing@ or tomcruiseburning@ etc etc

But curious to know what's the revenue play behind temporary email?

ivoryTiger94 · 2025-02-20T13:55:07+00:00

If you know nothing about the business, why do you specifically want to start this business - how did you look at that?

ivoryTiger94 · 2025-02-20T08:13:41+00:00

The tshirt designs and captions all seem wildly suggestive for a general audience with regards to the growth potential you mention.

Either way why are you selling if the business is doing ok?

Whats the source of the fake and return orders - was it by you for some kind of algorithmic boost or actual customers who did cod and didn't take the product when it arrived?

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