ZippyMochi
ZippyMochi

Closed 3 Cr+ revenue in the last year as a bootstrapper ❤️

No ads No SEO No paid PR No swanky offices No employees No investors

Just a small team mostly working from home in a tier 2 city, and lots of support from friends, family, early customers and professional contacts who believed in us.

Two ventures, social impact and healthcare.

Incredibly meaningful, important and rewarding work.

This was probably my biggest revenue year as a full-time entrepreneur. Time has flown away quite literally for me. But we probably got enough runway for a year or two now, which makes it worth it.

We could start scaling up this year onwards, but it would require more working hands and possibly investors if not loans.

Team would never give up autonomy to impatient capital, that much is certain. Hence leaning towards loans. Finding compatible team mates for long term growth is also a huge task.

Maybe I will choose to stay at this scale and not expand further. Haven't decided yet.

I have more work than I can handle, which is a great problem to have for a business owner (albeit stressful 🥲).

The last few years have not been easy at all, juggling work along with helping dad recover from his heart attack. Living with parents again, cutting expenses, planning finances was difficult. Savings went to zero multiple times. Back pain and spinal cord issues cropped up from sitting too much. Went through bad breakups that seemed impossible to get over. Lost family members that were close. Cried a lot.

Many positives too though. Reconnected with friends and family after moving back home. Made new friends over time. Got covered in the news for our work (NDTV, CNBC, Indian express, brut etc), more coverage coming soon probably. Watched Bryan Adams and Udit Narayan live. Went for road trips with friends as well as solo treks. Started exercising and lost 5-6 kgs.

Blood, sweat and tears on the rollercoaster of life. Never imagined crossing thirties would be so life changing for me.

Going for a vacation tomorrow, but with laptop. Hopefully won't need to use it much 🤞

Thanks to all the well wishers and friends here. Very grateful for your support , feedback and kind words 🙏

21d ago
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PrancingPotato
PrancingPotato

What’s the product or service you are selling?

ZippyMochi
ZippyMochi

Social impact - customized products and services for MNCs mostly

Healthcare - medical and dental equipment sales and services for doctors, hospitals, colleges, clinics etc

PeppyBanana
PeppyBanana

Congrats and best wishes 🎉

PrancingMuffin
PrancingMuffin

Without ads? Hard to believe.

PrancingCoconut
PrancingCoconut

If it's not D2C, ads won't make a world of difference for a startup I think

PeppyUnicorn
PeppyUnicorn

Way to go!! 👏👏👏

ZippyMochi
ZippyMochi

Thenkyuuu

SnoozyPotato
SnoozyPotato

Sab kuch bta dia ab name b reveal krdo

ZippyMochi
ZippyMochi

Nah, not anytime soon :p

BouncyNugget
BouncyNugget

Do you have a opening? Would love to join your team.

ZippyMochi
ZippyMochi

No openings, sorry :)

JazzyQuokka
JazzyQuokka

How many years of experience do you have and in what roles have you worked on in the

ZippyMochi
ZippyMochi

Can't give an exact number on yoe, been working since childhood. Officially, 10-11 years.

BouncySushi
BouncySushi

Fantastic! What's your sales process?

ZippyMochi
ZippyMochi

Don't really have a process tbh. We have quite a few incoming leads every month, just need to go through them and get orders.

Apart from that I'm trying to start outbound cold calling/messaging/visits as well, but haven't had much time for that. Just the inbound stuff keeps us busy enough. And our work brings us referrals from happy customers.

Nothing sells stuff better than good work that's memorable, and the customer's word of mouth. We are the market leaders in our area for certain things. But getting there took us a long time too ofc. Literally 20+ years of work.

BouncySushi
BouncySushi

Nice, how do you get the consistent inbound leads?

GoofyBoba
GoofyBoba

Hey @Bhidu me and my family are in similar healthcare business in bangalore . Let's chat ?

ZippyMochi
ZippyMochi

Sure, happy to chat in DM

SquishyTaco
SquishyTaco

Let me know if you require any support or if you have any opportunity as freelancing you can reach out to me on sohailpatel64.60@gmail.com

GroovyBanana
GroovyBanana

Great journey. Feels like you have experienced a lifetime of experiences in a short period of time. I work in the embedded hardware domain. Let me know if I can be of any help in your journey.

ZippyMochi
ZippyMochi

It does feel like i aged fast or grew up early haha.

Do send a DM about yourself and your work, would love to know more.

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