Nishchal’s further teams are spread over the teams of his respective startups. Those teams can’t be found here on this page for this page is strictly dedicated to the team of Preseed, but you can likely find them on the team pages of his other startups.
Nishchal's professional summary before Preseed
Below are photos from Nishchal's various talks that had moved and shaken some humans
and
ideas,
into
newer shapes and forms.
Nishchal is not a conventionally educated man. He dropped out of college. However,
he is
a
learned and observant man, but most importantly, he is a meditative man. He learned
his
early
entrepreneurial lessons by leading a team of extraordinary men and women while he
was
only 23. To
know
who were the people he led in his first company FloEco India Pvt. Ltd., and what
they
went on to
become, click on their names to know these stars — Parag
Arora(YC),
Siddharth
Khattri(Google &
Techstars), Neha
Kesarwani (cofounder www.vertoe.com), Kabeer
Jain, Siddharth Yadav,
Vinay Yadav, Puneet
Bharti,
Akshay Gupta, Mustafa
Shahansha, Puneet Bharti, Varun Rajput,
Atul Agarwal,
Radhika Kapoor
and Jatin
Agarwal.
This
was his first team, and he was their first captain. He has a knack for identifying
talent before
it
reaches the rest of the world. It may have been painful to have lost that team, and
starting from
scratch, from that rock bottom. This situation must have had something to do with
Nishchal's new
found
raised bar at Preseed.
Somewhere along the way, Nishchal got offers from companies like 91 Springboard and Embibe, by
their charismatic founders to join
them
as a co-founder and director. He had to politely turned those offers by these
game-changing
men
and women. Nishchal was to be on a mission of his own. Something only he may be
destined
to do.
Today
those businesses are at over 200 million dollars in valuation, while Nishchal is
building a
Chinese
bamboo. It is deeper below the ground than above it.
To say the least, his constant advice will help you understand your business
ahead
from some new
standpoints, perhaps, over a noticeable period of time. He will prepare you for
your
investment/incubation readiness. The slide deck you will make together will help
you
raise
investment. However, that is the least of the reasons he will help you in the
making
of a right
Slide Deck. What is the most important reason he will do this exercise for? This
is
the process
with
which he will reveal your company to you with some new standpoints. His
questions to
you, and
your
understanding thereafter can make all the difference.
Over the years his $100,000 backed startup failure with the above-mentioned
star-studded
team in
2010
at his ripe age of 25, to starting Preseed as a community in 2012, up to now, Jan
2014,
he often
finds
himself and his team advising a lot of business owners and friends, who have come
to us
seeking
his
advice on new ways to do business in the new, ever changing age of free information
and
free
tools.
However, he has been so caught up until now in building from the ground up, upon his
own
ideas
listed
at Preseeded and that he
never
formally
got
the time to start our consulting for such businesses and startup friends out there,
even
though in
his
personal capacity, in the past, he has advised and executed for companies
like
—
1. Libra Mattresses
(among
the top 5
mattress manufacturers in India) - Nishchal aided them in 2009–10 in improving their
brand and
design.
They give his team's designs the credit for making one of their foam product their
best
seller.
2. Jeet India
Limited (a SME
in
food and beverage) — In 2009–10 Nishchal with his team (that later placed in
organizations like
google
and O&M) worked on their brand, their packaging, their ERP, their IT infrastructure
etc.
3. Invest Care — In early
2011
Nishchal
and
his team deployed IT infrastructure solutions for them through his other co-founded
startup called
BizOnTech. (Note-: He dropped out of BizOnTech soon after to split from that team,
to
focus on
something more inspiring, that now is called Preseed).
4. Om Sai Global — In the
mean
while to
make
ends meet Nishchal started advising Om Sai Global on harnessing the internet better
and
graduated
to
training their teams. Soon after he became the CEO there for a brief period of 3
months
as that
allowed him more authority to attempt some overhauling in their company. He did not
continue
thereafter for he was not motivated to serve real estate business.
5. Many more such business consulting stints happened till 2011 December, when he
finally decided
to
not work as a consultant to SMEs anymore, to focus back on what mattered to him the
most. What
mattered to him the most was building Preseeded, which of course in those days around the mid of
2011
was just a
thought in his mind, without a form. For Preseeded, Preseed had to happen first. So he started building
Preseed.
His main interest of work always lied in building startups from bottom-up, for that
leaves more
room
for some soulful innovation. He liked to innovate on even the way businesses are
managed, let
alone
the product the business is building. His appetite for technology and good design
transcends by
far
the appetite for technology and good designs in most businesses in India. (Although,
ironically,
in
spite of having the skills and sensibilities, he is unable to devote time to improve
designs on
his
own website :p).
His biggest challenge in consulting SMEs was that they often lacked the creative
work
force needed
to
execute what my advise may have contained for them. Hence, it was a fair decision by
all
regard to
stop advising others to focus back on starting up a business that fulfilled his
desire
to co-build
important things that mattered. So, if you are building something important, that
leads people
to
experience greater freedom in his perspective, count him in.
A hand full of action oriented, extraordinary humans that I can make great
timely impacts with
the
help of, through the collective of their startups and our mind.
Thes are some of the projects Nishchal advised or connected, often for no
benefits. Just out
of
his love for entrepreneurs:
1. GameXS.in — Helped them raise their
seed
investment in
2014–15.
2. Ebikego — Nishchal advised them and
made
way to have
them
get a consultant who eventually was hired into their management team.
3. Zipgo — Nishchal connected two
entrepreneurs Jitendra
and
Pritesh for he felt they were headed for a common goal. After a few years,
they
cofounded
ZipGo
and ended up raising $55 million together.
4. 91springboard — Connected the
cofounder of 91
Springboard, Varun Chawala with someone whose company Varun acquired for his
father’s travel
business.
5. Co-living and homestays — Spent ample time exploring accommodation
industry
with a friend
Minakshi as a
potential partner.
Nishchal
and Ritesh Agarwal, founder, OYO once lectured together about the
entrepreneurship and the
accommodation industry in India.
6. LawClik — A firm we are looking to
lay
our mind and
connection to, to make a dent in the legal industry with. The founder is a
friend who often
collaborates with Nishchal over their legal industry tech thought.
7. eduSquare — I
am involved with them as a friend over matters of their growth. Soon we will
translate this
friendship into a business handshake.
8. www.IVAT.Com — I have been offered to
join
them as a
co-founder. This deal is under negotiation
9. Delhi Furniture Company
10. DIY Guru — An education company that can lead Indian students into
contemporary education
about mobility. Nishchal is looking to find an investor for them.
11. Potbelly — Its an award-wining restaurant chain of regional food, and it
is
winning.
Nishchal
helped them hands on during the first few months of Potbell’s start.
Nishchal's few other attributes we love
Nishchal is here to sincerely help change your status quo, to ensure that you get at
least one shot to
do something impactfully different. His attributes are as different as the result he
wants to create,
even culturally. Some of those attributes of his we love while some others find
amusing:
1) He rides bicycles and shows up for most
ings(and parties) in shorts and
t-shirts, needless to
say, sweaty and muddy. He doesn’t care about what he is wearing and he also doesn’t
care about what
you are wearing.
2) He has huge concerns over effective visual communications, especially if you are
designing to
communicate with your customers for customers won't get into long verbose
conversations with you. He
feels if you invest on communications right, it would really facilitate his task of
‘GROWING THE
COMPANY’. If you are an alive company with some real on the ground traction,
sometimes, the first
job he may want to get done for you is getting this aspect of your business right.
We hope we will
find you prepared to invest time and money on this.
Note -: Good designs seek good payments. If you are not willing to pay the graphic
designers well,
we won’t take the responsibility of your visual communications. Actually this stands
true for any
vendor services.
3) He may get really really profound and verbose at times, almost on a whim, but
that's because he
has a very liberated sense of possibilities, passion backed with logics that may
take you time to
comprehend just like most groundbreaking logics in physics may take time to
comprehend.
4) He is even further north of the optimistic side, from other people’s perspectives
(especially those
who are still found conducting business in traditional ways*). HE IS REALLY REALLY
DREAMY, YET SIMPLE.
5) He never thinks not backed by an investor is a problem or a big deal, so you also
please stop
assuming that it is. It definitely is a means to an end, no doubt, but not having it
should not mean
you stop the hustle. Be creative in even how you make your ends meet. Where there
is a will there
is a way. Look carefully at how he is trying to do the same for himself.
Traditional ways :-
A) Poor visual communication.
B) Without harnessing the internet.
C) Unclearly defined roles and responsibilities of the staff.
D) Uninspired management apart from the co-owners.
E) No Business plan.
F) Ineffective or delegation of tasks.
G) Unoptimized resource including the available human resource.
H) Little or no funding.
I) Disbelief and bad payments against exceptional quality.
At PRESEED YOGA these are also some of the aspects we work on.
5) He never thinks money is a problem or a big deal, so you also please stop
assuming that it is. It
definitely is a means to an end, no doubt, but not having it should not mean you
stop the hustle.
6) He will say a point once and in most cases, it would be communicated to you in
written words. We
already assume that you are inspired enough to take action on the point he has
stated. So, don’t
expect us to send reminders or follow up till you yourself write to us telling us
the status of
whatever the point of concern was. He hates to repeat. It's not an ego thing. It's
the ‘duplication
of the same effort’ that he is against. It is the same as inefficiency.
7) Twitter is one of the best ways to get in touch with him. He prefer it over
emails and phone
calls.
8) We hate to see his time getting wasted with you. You are not the only
business/idea/goal/dream he
is dealing with. So, please value his time. Value your time too. If you save him
time, he will most
certainly make this world a better place.
9) He is critical(but not over critical) and brutally honest. In fact so much that
sometimes we lose
people for they get offended. But, that helps us in filtering bozos. We just hope
you are not one of
them who we lose.
10) If you are not being creative and liberal, we are not interested in you.
At PRESEED YOGA these are also some of the aspects we work on.
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The investor we need must be altruistic. No investor who is not interested in something slow, but absolutely grand, will fit the bill.
Dig him on Google search or/and on his twitter, @naval.
He is among the wisest tech investors in the world.
Most importantly, he has his heart and mind in the same place as our founder, Nishchal.
Exactly the same place.
Nishchal is hell bent on getting to Naval Ravikant, for Preseed.
Especially given that Nishchal's app, and our first portfolio startup, www.Chattodo.co will be very useful to Naval's portfolio companies, Angellist and ProductHunt.
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Testimonials, from the demonstrations of the first version of fb page
in its first year, 2013-14.
9/25/2013 0:06:51 Shubham Arora
Absolutely Great shit!
More than anything, I got to benefit from what Nishchal had to tell about the
Counter-Culture." "I would love to see Preseed getting involved in workshops of
scale
far larger than this.Also, Akshay was talking to me about a Preseed workshop at BITS
Pilani. Lets take it forward!"