Entrepreneurs Of india Like PC Mustafa

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• PC Mustafa

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• PC Mustafa, story of a man who was born in
  lower-middle class family, his biggest ambition
  at that time was just to wear a clean white shirt
  to school every day, like some of his privileged
  classmates.
• He was a son of a daily wager who grew up in
  Chennalode, a remote village in Wayanad district
  of Kerala.

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• Mustafa was so weak in studies and even he got
  failed in 6th standard. This was a much needed
  shock for him.
• His maths teacher, Mathew sir suggested his
  father to give him another chance and Mustafa
  proved himself, he came first in class seventh.

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• Later Mustafa secured admission in Farooq College
  in Kozhikode (Calicut) for his pre university
  course and then got admission in NIT, Calicut.
• He got his first job in Motorola, Bangalore.
  Company sent him to Ireland for a project and
  then he shifted to Citibank, Dubai.

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• With Citibank, his monthly salary was more than 1
  lakh. He sent his first salary 1.3 lakh to his
  father to pay all his debts. His father wasnt
  able to believe that his sons one month salary
  is more than his lifetime debt. Holding that
  money even brought tears to his eyes.
• After working for 7 years, Mustafa returned to
  Bangalore in 2003 and enrolled for MBA at IIM,
  Bangalore.

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• He was having no dreams of becoming Entrepreneur,
  he wanted to be an Engineer.
• When one of his cousin suggested the idea of
  making Dosa batter and supplying it fresh.
• Mustafa decided to invest in it and he invested
  25,000 to start the company immediately.
• Its not about ideas. Its about making ideas
  happen. Scott Belsky,

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• Mustafa and his cousins came together and found a
  small place of around 550 square feet and started
  with just two grinders, a mixer and a sealing
  machine.
• As they planned to supply fresh Idli and Dosa
  batter so they named this venture as ID Fresh.
  

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• From making 10 packets of batter everyday with
  the help of 5 people only they grown up to an
  organization of 1300 employees making 50,000
  packets a day.
• iD Fresh Food, a private limited company, was
  founded in 2005 by Mustafa and his four cousins -
  Abdul Nazer, Shamsudeen TK, Jafar TK and Noushad
  TA. Mustafa holds 50 percent share in the company.

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• As the demand of their company was increasing day
  by day, Mustafa invested another 40 lakh in 2008
  and again in 2009 he sold one of his property in
  Kerela to invest another 30 lakh into the
  business.
• Soon they expanded their business to Dubai as
  well. They are also planning to expand it in
  other countries (US, Malaysia, Singapore etc).

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• Today ID fresh is producing more than 50,000 kg
  every day in their main plant in Bangalore with
  the total investment of around Rs 4 crore  (Rs 40
  million) and revenue of more than Rs 100 crore
  (Rs 1 billion).
• Mustafa says to all the aspiring entrepreneurs
• If you have the passion to start something,
  do it immediately. Don't wait for tomorrow.

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