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UrbanClap dominates the on-demand services ecosystem in India, but<br>maintaining the lead will be a task amid competition from LocalOye and<br>Amazon-backed Housejoy<br>New Delhi: It was 2013. Two college friends, Abhiraj Bhal and Varun Khaitan,<br>decided to quit their jobs at the US office of Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to<br>find a place in the then rising wave of Indian start-ups. The decision took their<br>families by surprise. After all, they were yet to find an answer to the most<br>important questionu2014 u201cWhat was the start-up idea?"<br>But though the u201cwhat" and u201chow" were yet to be discovered, Bhal and Khaitan<br>were convinced they were ready to take the plunge. u201cThe idea was to build an<br>enduring business, no matter what it takes," recalls Bhal with a wide smile.<br>u201cWe spent several weekends during our stint at BCG, just discussing what kind<br>of business we could startu2026these conversations went on for two years until<br>one day we told ourselves either we should act on it or just face the brutal<br>reality that we donu2019t have the guts," he says.<br>In the summer of 2013, Bhal and Khaitan returned to India and launched their<br>first venture, Cinemabox, that made entertainment devices for buses, trains<br>and planes.<br>Around the same time, Raghav Chandra, who would later join Bhal and<br>Khaitanu2019s venture as the third co-founder leading technology, was building<br>Buggi.inu2014a mobile application to book on-demand autorickshaws.<br>A computer science graduate from the University of California, Berkeley,<br>Chandra previously worked with Twitter. He had also moved to India in 2013 to<br>become a part of the growing club of entrepreneurs in the country.<br>Read the complete article here<br>https://www.livemint.com/Companies/ck6h9KKDL9Aw1SCgzvMLRM/Thebuilding-of-UrbanClap-one-ondemand-service-at-a-time.html<br>Connect - https://paganresearch.io/details/urbanclap<br>Know more about UrbanClap, Indiau2019s largest home services startup, raises<br>$50M<br>Tags - Abhiraj Singh Bhal, Abhiraj Bhal, Abhiraj Bhal Urbanclap, Abhiraj Bhal<br>Email, Urbanclap CEO, Urban Company CEO, CEO Of Urbanclap, Urbanclap<br>Founder, Urbanclap CEO Email
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How UrbanClap grew one on-demand service at a time UrbanClap dominates the on-demand services ecosystem in India, but maintaining the lead will be a task amid competition from LocalOye and Amazon-backed Housejoy New Delhi: It was 2013. Two college friends, Abhiraj Bhal and Varun Khaitan, decided to quit their jobs at the US office of Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to find a place in the then rising wave of Indian start-ups. The decision took their families by surprise. After all, they were yet to find an answer to the most important question—“What was the start-up idea?" But though the “what" and “how" were yet to be discovered, Bhal and Khaitan were convinced they were ready to take the plunge. “The idea was to build an enduring business, no matter what it takes," recalls Bhal with a wide smile. “We spent several weekends during our stint at BCG, just discussing what kind of business we could start…these conversations went on for two years until one day we told ourselves either we should act on it or just face the brutal reality that we don’t have the guts," he says. In the summer of 2013, Bhal and Khaitan returned to India and launched their first venture, Cinemabox, that made entertainment devices for buses, trains and planes. Around the same time, Raghav Chandra, who would later join Bhal and Khaitan’s venture as the third co-founder leading technology, was building Buggi.in—a mobile application to book on-demand autorickshaws. A computer science graduate from the University of California, Berkeley, Chandra previously worked with Twitter. He had also moved to India in 2013 to become a part of the growing club of entrepreneurs in the country. Read the complete article here https://www.livemint.com/Companies/ck6h9KKDL9Aw1SCgzvMLRM/The- building-of-UrbanClap-one-ondemand-service-at-a-time.html Connect - https://paganresearch.io/details/urbanclap Know more about UrbanClap, India’s largest home services startup, raises $50M
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