This is a story that dates back to the good old college times. The times when I made some friends for life. The times when the whole life revolved around them. Our source of happiness was nothing but the feeling of togetherness generated during the random sessions of mindless chatter and giggles. For the professors, we were nothing but a bunch of morons who were destroying their career by bunking classes. According to them we wasted few engineering seats which could have been offered to people who really craved for it. But nothing happens for no reason. I think the almighty had his own plans that he kept us going. It was one of those drunken nights when we started speaking out our mind. "We are wasting our life and not doing anything productive", said Karan. The comment sparked the attention of everyone. After few minutes into the discussion, we finalized that we all should channelize our time and resources in setting up a business. We agreed that we can succeed only if we leverage this bonding to establish a business. Further discussions revealed that creating fun was our greatest strength and may be our only strength. We had the skills which can transform a monotonous party into a happening one. We were famous in the campus for throwing and organizing the best parties. This was our Eureka moment when we decided that we should form a party-planner group.
The target group of our was the age group 15-25, mainly college going people. We realized that 25% of the city population falls in that range and that the opportunity is really big as party planning business is not really organized. We discussed the pros and cons of the business model whether we can really take it off. One major concern was that the target group likes to organize parties on their own and they usually don't have much funds in their kitty to spend. We realized that it would be difficult to convince sophomores and college going students to spend, whatever little they have, for a professional party-planner's services. But we somehow convinced our-self that we should at least give it a try. We did start that business and in an year we organized around 37 parties which was not a bad number. We did manage to make good money but after an year or so we decided to call it a day, Although we separated after we closed the business, I can't forget the times that we spent together. I cherish each and every moment we toiled to transform a difficult business plan into a successful one.
That is my story of togetherness. Similar stories are shared by many start-ups today which really inspires me. One such story is of https://housing.com/. Number of start-ups have only increased in the recent years and I am sure we will hear many such similar stories.
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