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The box of patience is empty

        All Entrepreneurs who have been in my shoes ever will understand my situation. My startup Awesummly, which was launched in July 2015, is yet to get funded.         Around April 2016, we received soft commitment from Partha Ventures and Anirudh Dhiman for seed fund. Anirudh asked us not to look out anywhere else as he promised he will fund us. By October-November 2016, he refused to fund us. Around 6 months of hanging helpless, just to fuck us at the end.         In September 2016, we cracked The Fault Show, a reality show for startups. In the Fault Show, Vikas Bhargava and Kashmira Shah promised us to fund. And the promise is yet to be broken. It has been 6 months already. This time its just not soft commitment, in fact all the papers, including Term Sheet, are made. Just one of the investor Kashmira is yet to sign it. She don't even pick us call or reply to WhatsApp or email. But Vikas is still assuring us, th...

Awesummly story on yourstory

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Thanks  yourstory ‘Three idiots’ are building Awesummly product to digest news Nitin, Ankit, and Deepak were wandering from one company to another without direction or guidance in search of the first step. It was sheer fate that brought the three entrepreneurs together. Before meeting each other, each of them had unsuccessfully tried their hand at several startup ideas with different teams but had always failed due to unfavorable circumstances and lack of motivation in teams. It is always difficult to pursue entrepreneurship after a stage of life when you can’t risk losing a regular source of income and have family pressure and responsibilities.. Inception of the Idea A night in U-block Gurgaon, when the power had gone off for hours, saw the beginning of new ideas. Deepak came out of the building to get some fresh air and found his neighbour, Nitin, sitting outside the building. That night they talked for four hours and found they shared a similar bent of mind. N...