Young Entrepreneur Divyank Turakhia of Directi Group

Divyank Turakhia

Divyank Turakhia of Directi Group is remarkable young entrepreneur he started driving towards mission at age of 14.

About Divyank Turakhia

Born 29 Jan 1982. Started entrepreneurial journey at the age of 14 in 1996 by consulting big companies and helping them to start their business online and kept doing this for two year and in 1998 at age of 16 he and his elder brother Bhavin Turakhia borrowed Rs. 25000 as loan from their parents and founded a company name Skenzo which became no 1 Domain parking site within a year and Skenzo is still on top and leader in its area later on Skenzo became part of Directi group.


Till 1998 his company reached a milestone of 1,00,000 customer globally and tripled his revenue in next two years. His company was featured in almost all popular Business magazines and newspapers globally Times of India, India Today, Business Standard, Rediff, Money Today, CNBC, Business Week, Entrepreneur Magazine and many more.

He was invited speaking at various universities, Industrial conferences in India, US and China.

His early Life 


He was born in Bombay (Mumbai), India in 1982. From childhood he had interest in Computers and programming mainly in games. He didn't had computer at home because computers were too much costly at that time so he use to practice all his computer activities at school lab and rich friend house who was having computer. At the age of 9 he started programming games and he created his first 3 games as a school projects when he was of 12. The best thing was he learnt all programming him self and was also teaching to other student in his school.


He also sold school projects to his rich friend when he was 13 and they use to get A grade for projects which was not bad for what they pay to Divyank.

About his company Directi Group

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Directi is spreaded  all around the world and is global leader and has offices in India, China, UAE. Skenzo, LogicBoxes, ResellerClub, WebHosting Info are part of Directi and valued at $300 million having 550+ employes and still recruiting more every year. 10,00,000 customers worldwide. Having 25+ internet products to serve.

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Suhas Gopinath

Born 4 Nov 1986 Bangalore, India in middle class family his father was working in armed force and his mother was housewife. 

He started working from cyber cafe. As Suhas was from middle class family he didn't had enough money to spend daily on cyber cafe so he convinced the owner of cyber cafe that he will be running his cyber cafe during his (owners) lunch break and use to do his work. During this duration he learnt HTML and ASP which are required for developing a website and also made some friends in US and Europe through Yahoo Chat.

He wanted to own a website named coolhindustan.com for which he needed sponsership because he didn't had enough money to host it so he approached several Indian companies but none of theme were intrested in his project considering him as a minor child. Atlast his project was sponsored by an US company named 'Network Solutions' for 1 year.

After this successful project he got his very first job offer as freelancer from 'Network Solutions' but he rejected this offer because he wanted to start his own company. But was helpless because Indian law dosent permit minors (below 18) to start business. So in year 2000 he registred a company on name of Cliffords his cyber friend to whom he met through Yahoo Chat and in same year he setup Globals Inc websolution company at California and he was the only 1 worker in the company.

Globals Inc provided webdesigning and started getting more orders and accordingly he increased number of staff and his most of the staff too worked from cyber cafe. He didn't appointed staff by qualification but by their efficieny abd attitude. After that Globals Inc had grown as MNC-IT focused on Web development, e-Commerce and Mobile solutions. Globals Inc is now spreaded worwide in all major countries like US, Australia, Bahrain, Britain, India, Italy, Spain, Germany, Singapore, and Nigeria. Globals Inc had served more that 400 clients worldwide including Fortune 500 companies. Number of staff is now 400+



Achievements

* At 14 he was recognized as the world's youngest web develop for his project 'coolhidustan.com'

* Fortune 500 company offered him job of $2000/week pay a chauffer driven car and an executive apartment.

* At age of 16 recognised as the world's youngest entrepreneur by CNBC and e-Business, Canada.

* At age of 17 recognised as the world's youngest CEO by leading major media across world including BBC, Washington Times, Times of India and many others.

* In 2002 The European Parliament and International Association for Human Values conferred “Young Achiever Award” to him.

* In  the year 2005 he became the youngest recipient of the Rajyotsava Award conferred on him by Government of Karnataka.

* A non profit program named 'Building Entrepreneurship Skills in Youngsters' was initiated by him for whcih he was greatly acclaimed by the India's former president A P J Abdul Kalam and former Union minister Shri. Arjun Singh and many other awards and achievements
 

Inventions

His US based Globals Inc had developed "Student Management System". This system will inform parents about their childrens if they are in class or not through SMS or email. And also their performance, behaviour, attendence etc in class. Virtual marksheet on website itself.



Suhas is planning to shift his headquaters from US to India for which Karnataka state government had provided him 10 acers of land

Aircel Introduced Facebook Voice updates - Update your status from mobile withou internet

Aircel is one of the leading telecom service provide in India with 50 million customers. facebook is the toppest social networking site on the whole world. As we all use facebook we use it daily it has become a part of our life it has recently crossed user of 600 million around the world.

Aircel & facebook partnership had introduced a new & innovative way to connect with friend now you can record your voice and update on your wall and your friends can listen to it.

To start using this service you have to follow below steps

1. Call 51555 (normal call charges) - select language - while holding the call a screen will appear asking you your id & password

2. Enter login detail register your facebook Id

3. Conform the plan.

Charges will be 5 Rs per week and 1 Rs per minute for every time you update which is dirt cheap for this cool feature.


So good luck and ENJOY

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Gurbaksh Chahal is also known by his pet name ‘G’. He was born in Tarn Taran, Punjab, India. When ‘G’ was 3 year old his parents come to America and stayed with friend because of instability in India. ‘G’ stayed with his grandmother in India till age of 4 yr. When he was 4 he also was brought to Amerca by his parents ans was admitted in school.

His Entrepreneur Journey

When 'G' was 15 he was taking college courses while still he was in hidh school. His parents wanted him to be a Doctor or Engineer but he was not interested in science. (more).

Oneday 'G' came to know about a company name DoubleClick which was providing internet ad service. After hearning this he was intrested in make such business but he didn't know how to program. Then he found a guy in London providing such software and technology for which 'G' paid $30,000. Started online company with help of his brother. Just after 3 month he made revenue of $ 1,00,000 and $ 1million in a year. He named the company "ClickAgents". Then a investment bank called and asked him if he is intrested in selling ClickAgents and 'G' sold it for $40 million.

Again he found a second company name "BlueLithium". BlueLithium was the next generation ad network focusing on data, optimization and analytics and was a pioneer of behavioral targeting. In no time this company boomed and in Oct 2008 Yahoo bought this company for $ 300million cash.