🏡 Build a home (Issue 025)

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In today’s Issue 📥 :

• Build a home.

• Why Those Who Try, Win in the Long Run.

• No other country that.

• Amazon and Womennovator team up.

Build Your Dream Home, One Step at a Time with Bengaluru-based BuildAhome

The Indian construction market has long been plagued by challenges that make it difficult for traditional contract workers to execute projects, including antiquated designs, delivery obstacles, labor shortages, and payment delays. As a result, a significant portion of the industry continues to function in the same unorganized manner, hiring independent contractors and dealing with numerous problems during project construction.

One entrepreneur seeking to correct these issues is Abhijith R Priyan, CEO of BuildAhome. Priyan’s vision is to create an ecosystem that provides the right regulation and a systematic approach to home construction. He believes that dream home construction is an emotional journey that should be memorable rather than burdensome.

Building Green Homes

Since 2016, BuildAhome has helped turn over 750 homes from the blueprint to reality and has set up an experience center in Bengaluru. The company is now focusing on green home construction, which Priyan believes is the next big thing. BuildAhome strives to address the negative impact of the industry on the environment, particularly in terms of carbon emissions and pollution, by prioritizing sustainable construction. This process involves using environmentally friendly materials, energy-efficient appliances, and innovative design solutions that reduce the home’s overall impact on the environment.

Accountability in Construction: BuildAhome takes complete ownership of the construction process, eliminating the risks and uncertainties that come with working through middlemen. The company provides advanced payments to creditors, vendors, and laborers, ensuring that each project receives the appropriate funding. This strategy allows BuildAhome to purchase goods directly from the source at more favorable prices.

Customizable Packages and Milestone-Based Revenue Generation

BuildAhome gives customers the opportunity to customize packages based on their requirements. These packages are made available in two full-service options: Rs 1470/sq ft and Rs 2700/sq ft. Customers can also check the progress of their construction through the BuildAhome app. The company also has a milestone-based revenue generation for every stage of home construction. Each customer pays this out to BuildAhome in phases at the completion of every milestone in their construction journey. There is no commission or percentage cost associated with home construction.

Rising Above the Challenges: BuildAhome has overcome significant challenges in the unorganized Indian construction market. It has completed nearly 300 projects to date, with over 450 ongoing projects. The company is developing fresh technology to design homes, including the use of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), which is gaining traction among customers. BuildAhome has been profitable since its inception, growing at 100% year-on-year, and generating over Rs 60 crore in revenue in the last fiscal year. In FY 22-23, the company has already closed over Rs 120 crore.

Catering to Everyone’s Dream of Building a House

BuildAhome caters to everyone who dreams of building a house for themselves. It has ongoing construction projects across 18 cities in South India, including Bengaluru, Mysore, and Chennai. The company considers JSW Homes, 100Pillars Construction, and Brick&Bolt as rivals. Priyan and his team are committed to continuing their mission of providing affordable and sustainable home construction solutions to the Indian market.

IMPROVEMENT SIP

Why Those Who Try, Win in the Long-Run

Optimism is often associated with success, and for good reason. Research has shown that optimists tend to have better mental and physical health, as well as higher levels of achievement in their personal and professional lives. But why is this the case? According to some experts, it all comes down to the way that optimists approach challenges.

Unlike pessimists, who tend to see obstacles as insurmountable and give up easily, optimists view setbacks as temporary and believe that they can overcome them. This mindset helps them stay motivated and persistent, even when things get tough. And because they believe that success is possible, they are more likely to take risks and try new things.

This is why optimists tend to win in the long run. Even if they initially underestimate the difficulty or length of a particular challenge, their belief in their ability to succeed keeps them going. And because they are willing to take risks and try new things, they often end up achieving great things that would have been impossible if they had given up at the first sign of trouble.

Of course, there are no guarantees in life, and even optimists sometimes fail. But as entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban has said, “You can’t guarantee success, but you can guarantee failure: never try.” In other words, if you don’t even try, you’re guaranteed to fail. But if you have the optimism and persistence to keep going, you just might surprise yourself with what you can achieve.

So if you’re facing a challenge or pursuing a goal, don’t let the fear of failure hold you back. Instead, channel your inner optimism and believe that success is possible. Even if you don’t know exactly how long it will take or how difficult it will be, keep pushing forward and don’t give up. As the saying goes, “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.”

HOT SIP

Amazon and Womennovator team up to empower 200 Indian women entrepreneurs to conquer the global market

Amazon India has recently teamed up with ‘Womennovator‘ – a global incubator for women entrepreneurs – to help 200 Indian women entrepreneurs take their products to the international market through Amazon’s online platform. This partnership aims to provide entrepreneurs with the necessary support and tools to establish their global brands from India.

Diverse Product Categories: The 200 entrepreneurs that Amazon is partnering with through Womennovator come from diverse product categories such as apparel, beauty, jewelry, spices, sanitation, handicrafts, home décor, and office products.

Support through Global Selling Program: Amazon will onboard these women entrepreneurs through its e-commerce exports program, Global Selling, over the next 24 months. Amazon will provide them with all the necessary support as well as tools and technologies to create a robust e-commerce export business, including skill development workshops and training on the listing of products, pricing, global logistics, and more, at no additional cost.

Commitment to Enabling $20 Billion in Cumulative E-commerce Exports from India

Bhupen Wakankar, Director of Global Trade at Amazon India, stated that Amazon is committed to enabling $20 billion in cumulative e-commerce exports from India by 2025. Wakankar added that Amazon is focused on making exports easier and more accessible for businesses of all sizes through partnerships such as this.

Tripti Singhal Somani, Founder of Womennovator, expressed excitement over the partnership and said that the organization aims to empower women through its initiatives such as the Global Roadshow, Creators Fest, 100 Power Women, and Incubation and Acceleration Program.

Amazon Global Selling Program

Amazon Global Selling is Amazon’s flagship e-commerce exports program that helps lower the entry barrier for Indian MSMEs (Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises) to start or expand their online exports business. The program was launched in India in 2015 to support Indian exporters to reach customers worldwide through Amazon’s international websites and marketplaces.

Remarkable Growth

Today, there are more than 1 lakh exporters across India on the program, showcasing millions of Made in India products to customers in 200+ countries and territories across the world. The Indian MSMEs exporting through the program has surpassed $5 billion in cumulative sales till now.

Amazon continues to work with industry peers, trade associations, state and central government bodies, and export councils to bring the benefits of e-commerce exports to Indian MSMEs.

SMALL SIPS

Bhaang Ki Goli: The Delhi Police has time and again utilized social media for issuing advisories and raising awareness in its quirky way. This time, the department has advised a person against driving if he consumes bhaang or cannabis. The advisory came after food delivery giant Zomato shared, in a tweet, that a person named Shubham had repeatedly been enquiring if the platform delivers “bhaang ki goli”.

Fake Work: Thousands of tech staffers at Meta and Google do “fake work” and were brought on to fulfill the “vanity metric” of hiring, according to the outspoken investor and tech veteran Keith Rabois.

Passes away: Veteran actor and filmmaker Satish Kaushik – who essayed loveable characters like “Calendar” in Mr. India and  “Pappu Pager” in Deewana Mastana – passed away in Mumbai on Thursday.

Valentine’s Day 2046: NASA is currently tracking the asteroid 2023 DW, which will make a close approach to Earth on February 14, 2046, and even presents a small threat of crashing into our planet.

The Plane That Disappeared: Malaysian flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing on March 8, 2014, but never landed. The MH370, instead, vanished into thin air and was never found. Nine years on, the disappearance of MH370 still remains a mystery. What happened to the plane? A new Netflix documentary tries to peel the layers and explores different theories.

With CHAI ☕

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How to: design financial products and services for women.

Aww: Yoga time 🐩

It’s Interesting: The distance (in miles) a person’s DNA would stretch if unwound and linked together is 110 billion.

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