Maharajas of Scale

Akshay Chaturvedi's entrepreneurial journey is a story of humility and persistence.  An entrepreneur at heart, Akshay is excited about the impact a startup can have. He begins a venture putting students and mentors together. A few thousand downloads and a few months later, he realizes that he needs something much bigger. Something that will bring in revenues and is monetizable. He shuts down the venture and embarks on a journey of learning, working at Snapdeal and doing an MBA at ISB. In the process, he realizes that what he was personally doing - helping other potential students get into ISB could be the right angle to put on top of his erstwhile mentor network idea. He dives in and begins LeverageEdu and LeverageEdu picks off well garnering a lot of users in a matter of months. So much so that, when it comes to funding, he is in the position of choosing investment firms that match his value ethos to help him realize the larger goal of creating something big. What failures did he encounter on his first journ