Lessons to learn from an Entrepreneur Mr. Romi Kulthia, Founder, Flight Mantra
INVC NEWS
New Delhi ,
Who knows the value of money better than an entrepreneur? A guy who haggles over a small amount of money with his vendors, but travels far to meet his clients. He faces a problem and tries to solve it while others crib.
The shock
Romi Kulthia perfectly fits the profile of a Jugaad entrepreneur. As from a middle-class family, Romi has started his career in school days by selling second-hand mobiles, as wasn’t privileged since childhood because of his missing father and has been reaching the ladder of success as a business owner by running telecom in Australia. His life came to a shock when he met with an accident and doctor certified him to be paralysed from his Lower part. It all changed one day when Romi was bedridden after his spine surgery he wanted to run some business in the same situation and was struggling for his day to day bread and butter hence made him search for online businesses and work and he landed to the marketplace and travel commerce. He decided to run the travel agency from his home and idea clicked and he succeeded in doing so.
Flight Mantra
India is an emerging superpower; the land of opportunities. Flight Mantra is a start-up aims to make flying an experience; an everyday experience for the inflation oppressed economy at large. It has been crafted with the virtues of dedication, reliability, customer-delight, and empathy. Flight Mantra represents the masses and believes in their need for a comfortable lifestyle.
It is an air ticketing portal. Having been avid travellers, they empathize with the requirement of imbibing ease while booking, swifter cancellation policies and upgraded back-end technology support to handle call volumes. They do not aim to be the cheapest; they aim at honesty in the endeavour.
Challenges
Things were going rosy for Romi as his friends and family also somewhat approved of it and he started expanding. He partnered with some online aggregators and took an agency from them on the commission basis (and a promise to sell tickets worth a fixed amount) and started networking with travel agents and started generating sales.
Lessons from journey Romi shares his key lessons from his journey:
1) Be focused on your work.
2) Never give up
3) Respect for your work.