| No. | Business | What's it about | Skills Needed |
Amount you need to start (Rs) | Gross Profit (%) | Break even period |
Company in the Name |
Entrepreneur(s) |
| 1 | Ultra-short temping services | Arrange temporary manpower for event managers. There are young people reaady to make some quick money and event managers are looking for more hands. | Networking | 1,000 | 20 | 10 months | Radicals, Mumbai | Chirag Bhatia, Varun Parekh |
| 2 | Shoe wash | Canvas shoes were cleaned earlier with just detergent and an old toothbrush. But people who wear today's fancy sneakers prefer paying a bit to have them cleaned by experts. | Knowledge of using the chemicals involved, marketing | 7,000 | 40 | 3 months | Shoe Laundry, Mumbai | Sandeep Gajakas |
| 3 | Food delivery | How do you lay out a dinner spread with the best dishes from the best restaurants in town? Or, get food from your favourite resturant? A specialist food delivery service can do just that. | Marketing and sales | 15,000 | 20 | 2 months | Dial-a- Meal, Hyderabad | Pani Kumar Reddy |
| 4 | Uniform making | B-schools are making dress codes compulsory for students. Law and medical colleges may do the same. Tie up with these institutions to deliver dresses at student-friendly prices. | Man management | 20,000 | N.A. | 1 year | Ecstacy Enterprises, Kolkata | Atiq Shah |
| 5 | Property management | Find a suitable workplace for business enterprises and save their time by doing all the cumbersome paperwork for them. | Marketing and sales | 50,000 | 50 | 1 month | E-States International,Pune | Sundip Joshy, Sachin Dhanwala |
| 6 | Telecom Business Consultantcy | With the spirit of entrepreneurship reaching new heights, leverage your knowledge and expertise to make business plans for budding entrepreneurs. | Networking | 50,000 | N.A. | 4 months | Tons Telecom, Bangalore | Sridhar Pai |
| 7 | Wedding planning | Weddings in India have unmatched opulence and are a long drawn process in some parts. Organise them for people who do not have the time. | Creativity | 50,000 | 15 | Depends on projects you get | TAB Events, Delhi | Rita Bhasin |
| 8 | Concierge services | Arrange services like medical treatment, babysitting and even plumbing for newcomers to a place. | Networking, communication skills | 50,000 | 10 | 6 months | Concierge 4 India, Delhi | Arvind Pandey |
| 9 | House keeping (hotels) | Help hotels keep their rooms spick and span. | Man management, communication skills | 50,000 | 20 | N.A. | Pristine Interiors, Delhi | Ritu Mukherji |
| 10 | Pre-recruitment and assessment exercise | There is a talent crunch in India. Help cos hire workers by preparing tests and then evaluating applicants on the basis of their performance. | Marketing and sales | 75,000 | 25 | 2 months | MeritTrac, Bangalore | Madan Padaki |
| 11 | Custom-making chocolates | Prepare the perfect food, chemically speaking, and serve in fancy wrappers. | Creativity, love for chocolates | 100,000 | 30-35 | 1 week | Rage Chocolatiers, Bangalore | Rashmi Vaswani |
| 12 | Bus service website | Inter-city bus service is booming. Create a webpage that shows all the bus routes and their rates and through which tickets can be booked. | Knowledge of IT, bus routes | 200,000 | 10 | 5 months | RedBus.in | Phanindra Sama, Charan Padmaraju, Sudhakar Pasupunuri, Bangalore |
| 13 | Custom-making festival gifts | Innovatively choose festival gifts for a client and have them appropriately wrapped. | Sensitivity, idea of direct gift makers' outlets | 300,000 | 20 | 3 months | Sacred Moments, Mumbai | Prakash Mundhra |
| 14 | Online ads | Have a directory of websites and use your access to those in charge of them to get the right niche ad space for a client, so that he maximises his reach to his target audience. | Media planning, knowledge of Net, networking | 300,000 | 20 | 1 year | Ozone Media, Bangalore | Kiran Gopinath |
| 15 | Verification services | Informaton security is a big concern for BPOs. Check the background of prospective employees to avoid corporate fraud. | Networking with police, legal knowledge | 400,000 | 10 | 6 months | Pinkerton Consulting & Investigations India (PCII), Gurgaon | Krishnendu Biswas, works for PCII as MD |
| 16 | Tank cleaning | Growing use of water tanks and concern for hygiene gives you a chance to displace the guy in dirty overalls and professionally clean tanks with the right equipment. | Tech-savvy | 400,000 | 30 | 7 months | TanClean, Mumbai | Sunil Uplab |
| 17 | Travel guide | Pollution, long working hours, stress - customise trips to forests, fishing riverines and mountains for those who just wanna chill | Knowledge about getaways, high fun quotient | 1,50,000 | 35 | 24 months | Outrigor, Bangalore | Sandeep Chakrabarti |
| 18 | Revenue credit billing | Manage the credit finances of hospitals that are outsourcing this job. The quicker you recover money for your client the more the chances of success. | Knowledge of insurance, networking | 2,00,000 | 20 | 3 months | Health and Insurance Integrated, Noida | Deepak Mendiratta |
| 19 | Merchandising services | Merchandising by business establishments is growing. Do it efficiently for them. | Marketing, creativity | 2,00,000 | 10 | 15 months | Desk Digital Print, Delhi | Yogesh Bharadwaj |
| 20 | Housekeeping (offices) | Help Shining India. Get its offices cleaned. | Man management, communication skills | 5,00,000 | 5 | 12 months | Collections, Delhi | Ramesh |
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