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Historical Background of Entrepreneurship in India

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• Sach<strong>in</strong> Bansal and B<strong>in</strong>ny Bansal are from<br />

Chandigarh. Although they share the same last<br />

name, they are not related. They both were students<br />

<strong>of</strong> computer science eng<strong>in</strong>eer<strong>in</strong>g at <strong>India</strong>n Institute<br />

<strong>of</strong> Technology Delhi. Before the tremendous success<br />

<strong>of</strong> Flipkart, Sach<strong>in</strong> Bansal wanted to become a<br />

pr<strong>of</strong>essional gamer.<br />

• It was launch <strong>in</strong> 2007 by Sach<strong>in</strong> Bansal and B<strong>in</strong>ny<br />

Basal; who used to work for Amazon before start<strong>in</strong>g<br />

this project. Bansals went to <strong>India</strong>n Institute <strong>of</strong><br />

Technology for gett<strong>in</strong>g their graduation degrees.<br />

They <strong>in</strong>itially <strong>in</strong>vested their own money <strong>in</strong>to this<br />

bus<strong>in</strong>ess and later raised capital from big guns like;<br />

Accel <strong>India</strong>, Tiger Global and Naspers Group. 22

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