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PikAVenture promotes Entrepreneurship and innovation, we invite all young Indian entrepreneurs and artists to wake up and live the dream, we are here to support you!
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PikAVenture brings Crowd-funding to India
India has a crowd funding history for long. The movie Manthan was funded in 1975 with 2 Rupees from 5 lakh farmers! The concept of crowd funding, with the help of PikAVenture has picked up by most of the Indians that want to make better and different movies that can allow them to establish their identity in the Indian cinema, eg Onir making a National Award winning movie “I AM” To bring this crowd funding phenomenon at a larger scale to the common man of India, PikAVenture.com is committed to raise funds to the people by the people. In particular, to Indian filmmakers it offers lot of options that would allow them to bring out different themes and topics that have never been explored before or have never been highlighted the way they want.
Pik A Venture supports projects from all over india . PIKAVENTURE is bringing crowdfunding in India , Crowdfunding in Delhi , Crowdfunding in Mumbai , Crowdfunding in bangalore , crowdfunding in pune and in other cities and states. Pik A Venture is crowdfunding platform in India. Independent movie makers , documentaries , artists , event organizers , rock concerts can raise money for completing their projects . Pik A Venture raises funds online through crowd-funding for projects and events.
We request all struggling movies, projects , event organizers to contact us at info@pikaventure.com
Big Money in E-commerce start-ups in India by crowd-funding
PikAVenture Empowering Entrepreneurship and Innovation in India
E-commerce in India is slowly coming of age, offering hope to an increasing number of start-ups that are being unleashed upon the Indian consumer with a relentless pace. After the flop starts in 2001-2001, when there was a dot-com big bang followed by a bigger bust, many of the next round of e-commerce platforms that were set up in the middle of the first decade of this millennium have now grown strong roots and will soon start sprouting fruit.
Big money is being rolled out because profits have indeed begun to show up! In this environment, Subrata Mitra, partner at Accel (and on the board of top Indian e-commerce companies Flipkart and Myntra) feels that on the average companies may take up to five years to show profits – which is not a bad deal at all, given the fact that start-ups launched a few years ago took up to a decade (Amazon took 7 years) to reach the profitability level.
To encourage entrepreneurs, the government has set aside Rs 10,000 crore for start-ups interested in creation of apps for mobile phones, tablets and other electronic hardware. Venture Capital firms have also been investing steadily, with over 100 deals worth $363 million in India concluded during the first six months of this year. These deals included Russian VC firm ru-Net Holdings investing $9 million in Sequoia Capital-backed online apparel brand Freecultr and $8 million in online shoe retailer BeStylish. Other online services firms that raised funding recently include ethnic wear e-tailer Cbazaar.com and online taxi aggregator Olacabs.
E-commerce is a
lready setting strong footing in India with successes of makemytrip.com and flipkart.com, which are already attracting repeat customers and increasing sales revenues Their success has lead an early promise and enabling Indian e-commerce sector to proliferate by emergence of new players like Snapdeal.com (offering deals on branded products); Myntra.com (offers various popular brands, especially of clothing products);Jabong.com (web store with a vast collection of branded clothes and products; and, 99labels.com (which is an online shopping destination for brands related to jewellery, fragrances, apparel, accessories, home decor items and home appliances).
Overall, the mood is very positive in India now as the basics are slowly coming together, while Infrastructure matters like capital investment, payments, and logistics remain as matters of concern and therefore need some improvement. Pik A Venture identifies this as an opportunity and encourages innovative ideas and products that are interested in developing e-commerce suits and solutions for making online experience of customers a safer and an easy to use experience. Pik A Venture lays special focus on developing new, creative e-commerce offerings and is committed to make e-commerce a success in India. For entrepreneurs with a long term perspective this definitely is the time to seize the moment and step into ecommerce in the busy Indian online marketplace.
The enterprise of entrepreneurs!
The world economic environment is going through a transformation, United Nations report over the last decade GDP per capita of developing world has grown at three times faster rate than that of the developed world. As per World Bank, by 2020 emerging economies are forecasted to have more than 50% share of the word GDP. As China and India are leading the pack for this shift in economic balance, the global wealth is rapidly moving Eastwardly. Given the growing importance of money as a measure of wealth – especially in a developing country like India where the burgeoning middle class is shining through an accelerated growth in prosperity – it’s always a tantalising thought to find ways to generate more of it. By 2020 India is projected to grow its GDP per person by 150%; whereas by middle of the current decade, Indian healthcare industry is expected to grow at 17% (given India only holds only <1% of global medical technology market), it is more than evident that India has just about begun to savour the good life. The prospering Indian middle class is keen to find ways for generating more money than even the best-paid jobs can offer. Gone are the days when bright kids ended up in hospitals as doctors or became engineers or joined the Indian Administrative Service. The smart ones nowadays are into business – whether it’s inherited or a ‘start-up’ — where there is literally no limit to earnings and also the chance to be one’s own boss, with enough time (supposedly) to do what one pleases with it.
The Indian economy has witnessed a surge in entrepreneurship ever since the big stock market boom in the mid-90s when masses of people turn to the stock market to become investors. It was around then that businesses started by first-timers, referred to as ‘start-ups’, became common. The start-ups became a common norm in the advertising and marketing industries, as well as in other industries such as the travel, hotel and aviation industries.
As more and more private companies came into being, the biggest entrepreneur that emerged was undoubtedly Dhirubhai Ambani, who showed everyone living in this country that it was possible to build a business empire to rival the world’s biggest — out of nothing. The burst of entrepreneurship further bloomed with the dotcom boom, from the late 1990s to 2000. Several success stories were created then with an ease and pace that could never have been thought of before eg a tech start up Paymate, a mobile payment company which opened new avenues for e-commerce
The flourishing entrepreneurial ventures came from all sectors and were not only limited to technology industry. A fast-food chain Hot Millions created raves in Chandigarh before McDonalds came calling children, youth and families alike. Passion for adventure sports and personal hobbies turned into successful businesses like river rafting in Rishikesh or scuba diving in Bangalore (Planet Scuba India). Explore TV, a free air 24×7 travel channel came through by bringing together innovation and pleasure whereas personal creativity in field of journalism gave India Man’s World, a monthly magazine and BrandSmith, a movie production house which made last year’s surprise hit “Saheb, Biwi and Gangster”. Bringing creativity to new heights, Rashi Bansal a great home-grown motivator for entrepreneurs, created a youth magazine called Just Another Magazine before turning into India’s top bestseller with Stay Hungry Stay Foolish, Connect the Dots, I Have a Dream and Poor Little Rich Slum.
But while there are many success stories, they still remain a privileged few Indians, there are still many in different corners of India who in spite of having talent, vigour and perseverance lack resources and relevant capital to turn their dreams into a reality.
“I would say raising capital is one of the weakest things for most entrepreneurs,”
says Robert Kiyosaki, the best-selling author of Rich Dad Poor Dad,
“PIK A VENTURE” attempts to bring power of people to empower entrepreneurship and provide impetus to all unrealised dreams of individuals, by helping them raise capital. It brings concept of democracy to field of Venture Capital through crowd funding, where fund is raised “by the people for the people”
PIK A VENTURE provides Silicon Valley expertise and aim to bring entrepreneurial revolution in India by providing creative minds, budding artists, technical brains, entrepreneurs and innovators alike a common medium to get financial backing and encourage them to embark on their entrepreneurial journey. Mahatma Gandhi said: “Find a purpose and the means will follow”. (Success or failure? — you will never know till you dare!)
Pik A Venture!
Empowering Entrepreneurship and Creativity
Empowering Entrepreneurship and Creativity
The enterprise of entrepreneurs
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The world economic environment is going through a transformation, United Nations report over the last decade GDP per capita of developing world has grown at three times faster rate than that of the developed world. As per World Bank, by 2020 emerging economies are forecasted to have more than 50% share of the word GDP. As China and India are leading the pack for this shift in economic balance, the global wealth is rapidly moving Eastwardly. Given the growing importance of money as a measure of wealth – especially in a developing country like India where the burgeoning middle class is shining through an accelerated growth in prosperity – it’s always a tantalising thought to find ways to generate more of it. By 2020 India is projected to grow its GDP per person by 150%; whereas by middle of the current decade, Indian healthcare industry is expected to grow at 17% (given India only holds only <1% of global medical technology market), it is more than evident that India has just about begun to savour the good life. The prospering Indian middle class is keen to find ways for generating more money than even the best-paid jobs can offer. Gone are the days when bright kids ended up in hospitals as doctors or became engineers or joined the Indian Administrative Service. The smart ones nowadays are into business – whether it’s inherited or a ‘start-up’ — where there is literally no limit to earnings and also the chance to be one’s own boss, with enough time (supposedly) to do what one pleases with it.
The Indian economy has witnessed a surge in entrepreneurship ever since the big stock market boom in the mid-90s when masses of people turn to the stock market to become investors. It was around then that businesses started by first-timers, referred to as ‘start-ups’, became common. The start-ups became a common norm in the advertising and marketing industries, as well as in other industries such as the travel, hotel and aviation industries.
As more and more private companies came into being, the biggest entrepreneur that emerged was undoubtedly Dhirubhai Ambani, who showed everyone living in this country that it was possible to build a business empire to rival the world’s biggest — out of nothing. The burst of entrepreneurship further bloomed with the dotcom boom, from the late 1990s to 2000. Several success stories were created then with an ease and pace that could never have been thought of before eg a tech start up Paymate, a mobile payment company which opened new avenues for e-commerce
The flourishing entrepreneurial ventures came from all sectors and were not only limited to technology industry. A fast-food chain Hot Millions created raves in Chandigarh before McDonalds came calling children, youth and families alike. Passion for adventure sports and personal hobbies turned into successful businesses like river rafting in Rishikesh or scuba diving in Bangalore (Planet Scuba India). Explore TV, a free air 24×7 travel channel came through by bringing together innovation and pleasure whereas personal creativity in field of journalism gave India Man’s World, a monthly magazine and BrandSmith, a movie production house which made last year’s surprise hit “Saheb, Biwi and Gangster”. Bringing creativity to new heights, Rashi Bansal a great home-grown motivator for entrepreneurs, created a youth magazine called Just Another Magazine before turning into India’s top bestseller with Stay Hungry Stay Foolish, Connect the Dots, I Have a Dream and Poor Little Rich Slum.
But while there are many success stories, they still remain a privileged few Indians, there are still many in different corners of India who in spite of having talent, vigour and perseverance lack resources and relevant capital to turn their dreams into a reality. “I would say raising capital is one of the weakest things for most entrepreneurs,” says Robert Kiyosaki, the best-selling author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, “PIK A VENTURE” attempts to bring power of people to empower entrepreneurship and provide impetus to all unrealised dreams of individuals, by helping them raise capital. It brings concept of democracy to field of Venture Capital through crowd funding, where fund is raised “by the people for the people”. PIK A VENTURE provides Silicon Valley expertise and aim to bring entrepreneurial revolution in India by providing creative minds, budding artists, technical brains, entrepreneurs and innovators alike a common medium to get financial backing and encourage them to embark on their entrepreneurial journey. Mahatma Gandhi said: “Find a purpose and the means will follow”.
Success or failure? — you will never know till you dare!!
Pik a Venture India's best crowdfunding website!
Pik A Venture : Empowering entrepreneurship and creativity!
Pik a Venture India’s best crowdfunding website pikaventure.com. http://www.pikaventure.com. Today the power of crowd is here to help you turn your dreams into a reality:
CROWD FUNDING : It is bringing together a group of people, through Internet, who are interested, who believe in your idea and help you raise a capital by individually funding small sums of money.
Pik A Venture is unleashing creativity for you and empowering you by providing an infrastructure to innovate indigenously, outreach independently, personalize fund raising, get supported by the friends, colleagues and crowd in return of rewards.
PIKAVENTURE (www.pikaventure.com) invites you in this incredible journey of owning your own tomorrow!!
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