Prahallad Mittal is from a small city (Burla) in Odisha. The area’s economy is driven by education, medicine, civil engineering, and electrical engineering. He has started a startup called Homvery with two of his college friends during his Engineering Final year (Nov 2017). The concept comes to their mind by seeing the problem of getting good technician in his locality, and they wanted to solve that and came with the idea of Homvery.
Homvery provides all the home maintenance services like Electrician, Plumber, Appliances Repair, Home Sanitization etc from last 2 and half year.
Currently it operates in 4 cities including Sambalpur, Bhubaneswar, Jharsuguda and Burla in Odisha with a customer base of 5000+ and 50+ technicians onboard.
1. What were some of the challenges involved in your growth journey?
One of the challenges is to convince to the parents in every steps of the startup journey. Though I am graduate from one of the leading Government Engineering college from Odisha, all of my friends and relatives are having a wish that ‘I will work in an MNC’
The second one is very common, as a startup gaining trust from a customer. Being operational in Tier 2 and 3 cities, people use to think like “Yahan ka startup hai, chota company hai, accha service nhi hoga”
2. During COVID 19, how you managed your business?
We leverage the lockdown opportunity. Our revenue increased by 2.5x before COVID 19. Some of our services took 6-fold jumps while some services got affected like wedding planner etc. During 1st lockdown when people were thinking how to survive, our cofounders Rajat Kar and Ritesh Mittal use to spend the whole day in Municipality office to get permission to operate under Essential Services.
3.Do you believe success and spirituality coexist? Typically, society tells us we can only develop one or the other.
It depends on an individual. Both are not completely different or same. Success is what you get for your hard work, dedication and determination. In between starting up and success there will be many failures and to overcome those, spirituality gives you strength to get up and try again.
If you love your work, then no motivation is required to wake you up. Your work will be your motivation.
4. While working on the team how do you prepare yourself? What goes on in your mind?
You build a team and the team builds the Brand. You have to be very careful in that because one wrong hire can take your company progress downwards and one right hire can take your company to different level. But if you know how to convert the wrong hire to right hire then you don’t have to worry about team. You just have to check in which field that particular person is good at and can do wonders.
5. Your achievement in terms of your business success?
Creating an impact in the society is what success means to me. You have to earn money also no doubt but without an impact it will be of short term only.
6. Your advice to youngsters planning to enter this industry?
Do whatever you want to do but continue it for at least 1000 days with a small improvement every day. Once you continue it for 1000 days, you will master at it.
Dream and Think Big and Shoot for the moon.
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