a small town in bikaner and hadnt heard the names of the global entrepreneurs speakers in college sparked my interest in entrepreneurship when i came to bengaluru i worked at commonfloor for a while i was always into sports and fitness and wanted to build something around it in saudi i wondered what i was doing with my life i quit the job and didnt tell my mother for two months i crashed at a friends place in bengaluru and explored a few options with so many people having health problems i though health would be a top priority but no one bought my idea but it helped raising a seed round as soon as you start makes you less disciplined you need to feel the pinch of building a business i just love building companiesnever say no to startups is our motto nandakumar somasundaram 33 founder desijicom uniecommerce ndotafter finishing his b tech from anna university nandakumar somasundaram joined lcube innovative solutions but felt he could do more than write code he started desijicom a social networking platform for selling in may 2006 in may 2008 he started ndot a social app developing company for corporates concerned about data protection and followed it up with uniecommerce an ecommerce software solution provider ndot now has 150 employees in coimbatore sunnyvale and dubaiwhen i started uniecommerce in 2012 i tried to do everything myself sales marketing accounting my core strength is technology and i realised that pretty late once i did i knew we had to step up hiring i decided to focus only on ndot and managed to bag an order from kotak mahindra bank to develop a mobile banking prototype we broke even and in 2013 and i got an order from simmons one of the worlds largest mattress manufacturers after that there was no turning back never say no to startups is our motto our annual turnover exceeds 4 million rs 2725 crore but we still cater to startups i still remember my origins as a startup and have my initial investment in office to remind me of that every day a crt monitor and computer my father bought in 2006i didnt know there was a startup ecosystem thirukumaran nagarajan 31 founder appatakkar biriyani eduraft ninjacartthirukumaran nagarajans first two startups were a hit with customers but didnt make him any money so he wound them up about two years ago he moved to bengaluru to start ninjacart an online market for fruit vegetables and groceries it buys produce directly from farmers to ensure freshness and has its own warehouses ninjacart raised 3 million in series a funding in march this yearmy first venture appatakkar biriyani was a hit we had our own kitchen and delivered to it campuses railway stations residential localities mumbaikars loved the taste of ambur biriyani as theyd only tasted hyderabadi or kolkata biriyani we had to stop because of police pressure we didnt know the system we had no outside support