Have a look at the success story of online ticketing platform “BookMyShow†and how the mastermind behind the idea — Ashish Hemrajani, overcame obstacles. He turned his dreams into a multi-million dollar company.While he was sitting under a tree and enjoying to radio promoting Rugby tickets, an idea hit to his mind. He studied on his idea, understood the market and planned a strategy. Then came back to India, left his job directly and decided to start his own company. At the age of 24, he started his first ever internet venture “Big tree Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.†with his head-quarter being his bedroom. Soon after, he influenced his friends Rajesh Balpande and Parikshit Dar to join the company. Parikshit took over technology and Rajesh controlled finance. Soon this trio began their journey together as entrepreneurs and moved forward for Bigtree Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.
As they had inadequate cash with them at that time, they started approaching investors. Well, after seeing their passion towards their fair-faced idea, they got their first investor JP Morgan Chase and they got this invest sending their proposal through fax.After all this, they began their venture under the brand name “Go for Ticketing,†which they later renamed it to “India Ticketing†in 2002, before finally being called “BookMyShow.
