5 boring businesses that almost never fail in India (anyone can start) — Transcript
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- 0:00Popular business ideas do not make real
- 0:02money. That is why Zomato built
- 0:04HyperPure to supply vegetables and
- 0:06cooking oil to restaurants. And Viva
- 0:08crossed 1,000 crore just making sauces
- 0:11for KFC and Domino's. Even an uncle in
- 0:14my neighborhood who buys old metal and
- 0:16cardboard from factories, people call
- 0:18him Kabadiwala and laugh at him. But he
- 0:20told me he makes 3 lakh a month because
- 0:23nobody wants to do this work. So there
- 0:25is zero competition. Today I'm showing
- 0:27you five boring businesses making crores
- 0:30in India right now. I got full details
- 0:32on how to start each one and the last
- 0:34one does not even need you to step out
- 0:36of your house. Stay till the end for
- 0:38that. Number five, vending machines. You
- 0:40buy a machine, place it in an office or
- 0:42college or hospital, fill it with chips,
- 0:44cold drinks, and chai. People tap their
- 0:47phone, pick a snack, you earn. No staff,
- 0:49no rent, no salaries. The machine works
- 0:5224 hours and never takes a day off. Each
- 0:55machine earns 15 to 30,000 monthly and
- 0:58costs 1 and 1/2 to 3 lakh. But if you do
- 1:01not have that, many companies now let
- 1:03you start on a sharing basis where you
- 1:05pay nothing up front and just split the
- 1:08earnings. Once the first machine makes
- 1:10money, you add the next one. 20 machines
- 1:13at 20,000 each is 4 lakh every month and
- 1:16all you do is refill them once a week.
- 1:19India has very few vending machines
- 1:21compared to Japan and America. So as UPI
- 1:24grows, this market has at least 10 years
- 1:26of growth ahead. But you are selling 10
- 1:28and 20 rupee items one by one, so there
- 1:31is a limit. What if one single client
- 1:33paid you [music] lakhs every month and
- 1:35kept paying year after year? That is
- 1:37exactly what the next one does. Number
- 1:39four, supplying raw materials to
- 1:41restaurant. India's restaurant business
- 1:43is expected to almost double by 2030.
- 1:46Every restaurant needs oil, masalas,
- 1:48sauces, and packaging delivered daily
- 1:51and most owners are juggling 10 to 15
- 1:54unreliable suppliers. Deliveries are
- 1:56late, quality keeps changing, and the
- 1:58owner wastes hours managing all of them.
- 2:00You fix that headache. Buy from
- 2:02wholesalers and supply to a group of
- 2:04restaurants in one area. Start with just
- 2:07one thing, like packaging or spice
- 2:09mixes. If you have 3 to 5 lakh, buy your
- 2:11first stock and deliver. If you have
- 2:13less, work as a middleman connecting
- 2:15restaurants with manufacturers and take
- 2:18a cut without buying any stock. Once a
- 2:20restaurant trusts you, they will not
- 2:22switch because finding a new reliable
- 2:24supplier is too risky for them. One
- 2:26client pays 50,000 [music]
- 2:28to 2 lakh monthly. 10 restaurants is 5
- 2:31to 20 lakh. Udaan built a billion-dollar
- 2:33business doing this. You just need one
- 2:35neighborhood, solid income. But, there
- 2:37is something even more boring, even more
- 2:40invisible, making even more money. I'm
- 2:42sure you held this product today, but
- 2:44never thought about who makes it. Number
- 2:46three, cardboard boxes. Packman
- 2:47Packaging in Greater Noida makes 20
- 2:49crore a year from plain brown cardboard
- 2:52boxes. The box your Amazon order comes
- 2:54in, your Flipkart delivery, your Swiggy
- 2:56parcel. They make 1 lakh boxes daily and
- 2:59ship to 300 cities. Online shopping is
- 3:02growing 25% yearly. So, more orders
- 3:05means more boxes, and that will not
- 3:07change for 20 years. Setting up your own
- 3:09unit costs 15 to 30 lakh, but you can
- 3:11start as a supplier who buys in bulk
- 3:13from factories and sells to local shops
- 3:16and online [music] sellers. That needs
- 3:17only 2 to 5 lakh. Learn the business,
- 3:20build clients, then set up manufacturing
- 3:22when ready. [music] Nobody makes reels
- 3:24about cardboard, and that is exactly why
- 3:26competition is almost zero. 20 crore is
- 3:29impressive, but what about something
- 3:31even tinier, even more invisible, making
- 3:34almost four times more? This one made me
- 3:37rethink what a good business even looks
- 3:40like. Number two, clothing tags and
- 3:42labels. 75 crore a year from tiny cloth
- 3:45labels stitched inside your clothes.
- 3:47Size [music] tags, brand logos, washing
- 3:50instructions that not a single human
- 3:52being has ever actually [music] read in
- 3:53the entire history of clothing. Over 200
- 3:56people working, machines running all
- 3:58day, millions of tags for big brands.
- 4:00Started small 30 years ago and quietly
- 4:02built a huge business around something
- 4:04that exists to be thrown away. Every
- 4:06piece of clothing needs four to five
- 4:08labels. India is one of the biggest
- 4:10clothing makers in the world. As long as
- 4:13people wear clothes, labels will be
- 4:15needed. The textile market is crossing
- 4:16350 billion dollars by 2030. Meaning
- 4:20more labels [music] every year. Start
- 4:22with one or two printing machines at
- 4:23three to 10 lakh. Find one garment
- 4:25company and that single client keeps
- 4:27your machines running for years because
- 4:29brands order in huge numbers again and
- 4:31again. Now, every business I showed you
- 4:34needs some money to start. Machine,
- 4:36stock, a vehicle. But what if you do not
- 4:38have three or five lakh? What if all you
- 4:40have is a laptop? This last one is for
- 4:43you. And uh a company doing this right
- 4:45now is worth 20,000 crore. Number one, a
- 4:48listing website for one type of business
- 4:50in one city. IndiaMART is worth 20,000
- 4:54crore and all they do is list businesses
- 4:56and help buyers find them. A website
- 4:58with businesses organized by what they
- 5:01sell. That simple idea is worth 20,000
- 5:03[music] crore. You pick one type of
- 5:05service in one city. Wedding decorators
- 5:08in Jaipur, gym equipment sellers in
- 5:10Delhi, interior designers in Bangalore.
- 5:12[music] Build a simple website using
- 5:14Cloud. List every business of that type
- 5:17with photos, prices, reviews, and phone
- 5:19numbers. Make it the best place on the
- 5:21internet to find that service in that
- 5:23city. Businesses pay you 500 to 2,000 a
- 5:27month. You also charge a small fee when
- 5:29you send a real customer their way. 100
- 5:32businesses listed, 20 paying 1,000
- 5:34monthly, that is 20,000 from one
- 5:37category in one city. Do it for five
- 5:39categories and you are at one lakh a
- 5:41month with no stock, no staff, no
- 5:44office. When If searches best wedding
- 5:46decorators in Jaipur on Google, your
- 5:49focus website ranks higher than a
- 5:51generic IndiaMart page. You own that
- 5:54search result and people find you free
- 5:56every day. As more small businesses want
- 5:58to be found online, this demand only
- 6:01keeps growing. Total cost is a domain,
- 6:04hosting, and cloud under 5,000 rupees.
- 6:07Cheapest business on this list with the
- 6:09biggest long-term potential. Quick
- 6:11recap. Five, vending machines for daily
- 6:13passive income. Four, supplying
- 6:15materials to restaurants for lakh level
- 6:17monthly payments. [music] Three,
- 6:19cardboard boxes riding the online
- 6:21shopping wave at 20 crore. Two, clothing
- 6:24tags making 75 crore from the most
- 6:26invisible product ever. One, a listing
- 6:29website starting under 5,000 rupees.
- 6:32None of these are trendy, none are
- 6:33viral, none will get on Shark Tank. That
- 6:35is exactly why they work. While everyone
- 6:38fights [music] over flashy markets,
- 6:39these boring businesses sit quietly
- 6:41making money year after year. Pick one.
- 6:43Start this month. I post videos every
- 6:46week showing how real businesses make
- 6:48money behind the scenes. Subscribe if
- 6:51you do not want to miss the next one.
- 6:53Thanks for watching. See you in the next
- 6:55one.
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