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 Meet Avani Shroff, the brainchild behind Pune based Six Hats Online Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Avani wanted to build a company that would make a positive difference to people's lives using technology.
With this idea in mind, Avani and her good friend, Rashmi Maheshwari established Six Hats Online Solutions Pvt. Ltd. in the year 2015. Six Hats Online Solutions Pvt. Ltd. is about building portals for individuals or businesses, creating a sustainable business model and successfully operating these online portals. They visited more than a hundred home based sellers to learn about their businesses and pain points, which added a lot of depth to their understanding of small businesses. This in turn had helped in building and evolving their portal to meet demands.
Avani launched her own portal gharobar.com, a revolutionary marketplace for home based sellers in August 2016. Gharobar.com is not just a "marketplace" for home based sellers to sell their products online, but it is a support-system that helps with expanding their market, facilitating payments and door-step shipments with feasible and economically viable options. Over 5,000 products are sold through the portal.
Like most start-ups, her original plan got scrapped twice! Avani's first plan was built with a view of what their customers needed. After interacting with several customers, she built another model which was more suited to the customer's needs. In her view, staying flexible, learning, adapting to the dynamics of the market and evolving with the changing needs of customers were important success factors. She found herself dealing more with external challenges than business challenges. One of the main challenges for Avani was to balance the exacting demands of being a mother to young children and a mother to a start-up, both at the same time!
Her future plans include having 400,000 sellers successfully netting in profits through gharobar.com. Their short term goals and strategies include achieving a 30% growth year-on-year, building a Seller App, upgrading their current website, reaching a wider audience through social media campaigns, flea markets and corporate tie-ups.
Her well-oiled support system, which includes her in-laws, supportive children and her husband, helps her to achieve her entrepreneurial dream. Avani is of the opinion that women themselves are the biggest challenge. Her advice to budding women entrepreneurs is to dream big, be assertive and build a reliable support system.
To know more, please visit www.sixhats.co.in
For her initiatives, Avani deserves a Standing Ovation!
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