r/IndiaEntrepreneur

Hi,
I am in the early stage of planning an fmcg business in India, focused on home essentials such as cleaning liquids and other house related items.

Before I invest in manufacturing, I am trying to understand the modern retail distribution ecosystem actually works.

My main question is around getting products into larger retail chain such as Dmart , reliance retail etc.

How does the process of getting listed with these chains actually work ?

2. Do I approach the retail directly, or do I need to go through a distributor ?

3. How does new brands gets their meetings with these retails ?

4. What kind of margin , listing fees , schemes , MOQ should I expect ?

5. Do large chains generally consider products from completely new brand or do they expect an established sales record ?

I am interested to know these details !

Thank you so much

I already run a profitable online business, but most of my work happens at night, so my days/evenings are pretty empty. Since I work online, I also don’t get many chances to meet people or build a good social circle.

I’m thinking of starting an offline business in Jaipur where I can spend my evenings, meet interesting people, build a community/network, and hopefully generate some decent income as well.

Maximum profit isn’t the main goal. I have around ₹3–4 Cr capital available and also own roughly 5,000 sq ft of land that could be used if suitable.

I’ve thought about things like a social club, sports club, premium café/community space, indoor climbing, etc., but I’m open to completely different ideas.

What do you think Jaipur is genuinely missing right now?

What is the best frugal way to get the idea check survey in the tier 2 cities of India ?

Looking to check what can be the potential of my idea.

Experts please advise.

I am M22 and I have been building startsups since college. Due to many reasons some failed while some got decent feedback.

But in my recently exited startup. There has been a pretty huge fight with my "investor" and things ended badly, had to write the company off.

This has got me wondering how should I actually proceed from now. To be honest I think I need someone experiences whom I can trust to mentor me. And I put high energy and decent experience of building things.

IAnd now I am offered to work in the core team without any salary expected to not make anything for an year ( Although the founder promises otherwise). Am genuinely not sure if this is right, if am getting cheated the 2nd time.

What is a typical journey for a core member in a start up. And more broadly what is the journey of an early entrepreneur?

Hey everyone,

​I am a business-minded individual working on an early-stage app concept in the local services space.

​Since I do not come from a software engineering background, I’m looking to connect with a developer who enjoys brainstorming tech concepts and discussing project feasibility.

​What I'm looking for:

​Someone open to a casual chat about app structure, tech stacks, and user flow.

​A developer interested in potentially partnering up long-term on an equity basis if we click and the idea makes sense.