{"id":1184,"date":"2021-04-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/?p=linkedin-61"},"modified":"2021-04-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T00:00:00","slug":"i-was-21-yrs-old-when-i-started-my-first-business-that-too-with-an-intention-to-earn-phone-expenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2021\/04\/10\/i-was-21-yrs-old-when-i-started-my-first-business-that-too-with-an-intention-to-earn-phone-expenses\/","title":{"rendered":"I was 21 yrs old when I started my first business that too with an intention to earn phone expenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was 21 yrs old when I started my first business that too with an intention to earn phone expenses<br \/>\nIt was in 2000.During those days calling India from US was very expensive,I use to spend above $700\/month for india calls when my salary was $4k\/month after taxes.Most of those calls to talk with my girl friend,love of my life and now my life partner<br \/>\nThat expenses forced me find ways to make extra money, Thats when I found an opportunity,Directly buy calling cards in bulk from telecoms in wholesale and sell in retail to make profits<br \/>\nI started selling calling cards to friends and co-workers making few cents\/card. In next three months I was earning my phone expenses<br \/>\nAfter 2 yrs I converted that business to Ecommerce site, started selling online.With lot of ups and downs eventually It became multi million dollars business\/year before it was acquired.Rest is history.<br \/>\nLesson Learned:<br \/>\nThere is no such thing called small or big business every business starts at zero and gradually grows to become big.<br \/>\nSimilarly every business has to go through ups and downs to reach a stable stage only patience and persistence wins in long run.<br \/>\nI write MyLifeLessons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was 21 yrs old when I started my first business that too with an intention to earn phone expenses<br \/>\nIt was in 2000.During those days calling India from US was very expensive,I use to spend above $700\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkedin-posts","wpcat-18-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}