Leaving home at age 15 with ₹300 and sleeping at Mumbai railway stations for two nights, Chinu worked as a door-to-door salesgirl selling knives and coasters for ₹20/day before launching Rubans Accessories from a tiny 70 sq ft mall kiosk.
Door-to-door rejection teaches you more about sales than any business school.
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