1. How did you get your idea or concept for the business?

I used to always look at the guys working in the car scrap industry at Kurla
and I used to always wonder why are the people working in such horrible
conditions? Why are they using such age old techniques? Why the scrap
industry in India is so highly unorganised? Why havent we seen any change
in the scrap industry? And thats when I decided to revolutionise the scrap
industry and empower the people working in it

2. What was your mission at the outset?

Mission is something for the short term I would like to tell you about our
long term VISION at your scrap. We have this dream that no human will
be collecting scrap from the streets of India and Rag Pickers would just
disappear.
3. When did your charter the business?
From the December of 2015 I was working on it part time and launched
our website yourscrap.in on the 18th September, 2016.

4. What was your biggest mistake?

Spend my time starting a business/startup rather than going to a business
school.
5. How did you deal with failure?
I believe we should think of failure as more of a learning experience.
Failure happen all the time.
6. How did you learn from failure?
Never make that same mistake again.

7. What habits make you successful?

Reading books and speaking to like minded people
8. How did you distinguish yourself from your competitors?
None of my competitors have the vision like we do.
9. How many employees do you have presently working under you?
Right now one

10.What services or product do you offer or manufacture?

We help you turn your scrap into cash in about 90 mins. While we
empower rag pickers

11.How do you advertise your business?

Right now we advertise via pamphlets

12.What made you choose your current location?

Kharghar is our test market. If things work out as planned we shall
expand to the tier 1 citys of India

13.Whats your companys goals

Our mission is to get 2000 ragpickers into our platform and server at least
one million customers by the end of 2020

14.What is unique about your business?

We empower the Rag Pickers and turn them into micro entrepreneurs.
We create a better environment for our childrens children by helping you
recycle quicker

15.What are your responsibilities as business owner?

From customer satisfaction to driving the vision
16.What made you choose this type of business?
I just wanted to revolutionise this industry and empower the people
working in it

17.Does your company help the community where it is located?

Right now we havent started with any CSR activity