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Dipesh GargFounder of Truelancer.com Published On: Saturday, September 05, 2015 Views 10102

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"Focus, Patience and just do it attitude is really important for every individual to achieve success."

Dipesh Garg is the brain behind Truelancer, an on demand curate freelance marketplace. He is the budding entrepreneur of technology world who foresaw the need of a reliable platform for freelancers, businesses and came up with a global marketplace. At Truelancer, you can find freelancers for all tasks pertaining to development, design, writing, etc. Dipesh’s patience and zeal to deliver the best keeps him motivated and is a big inspiration for his friends, family, associates and people who aspire to start their own business.

Though initial phase was tough, yet Dipesh faced all challenges brilliantly and brought Truelancer at the point of success and stability with his innovative strategies and marketing skills. It was difficult to get payment processing for the platform but the team found a solution for both national and international users.  Read more about Dipesh and his startup in interview below.

Please provide a brief overview of your product/ service.

Truelancer.com is an On Demand Curate Freelance Marketplace. It helps both new and experienced freelancers through its website. With the increasing internet penetration there is a increased demand of Skilled Professionals all over the world.

Truelancer takes care of entire process of Hiring a Freelancer, One can either post a project or Buy pre listed Service Gigs (eCommerce for Digital Services).

If you are looking to Hire Developers, Designers, Content Writers, Android Developers , Virtual Assistant or any professional just post a free project on www.truelancer.com

What inspired you to build the above product/ service?

Finding right talent is one of the biggest problem of every business and this problem has created big opportunity for skilled professionals.

Building Truelancer always help me fulfill my vision of impacting life of millions of people around the world, imaging today once can do his work sitting in any location this has helped people in developing countries to make good living by working for global employers.

What is your life mantra?

Just do it and have patience. I believe when you start give your 100% and have some patience during the journey and you will be happy with what you are doing.

What was the most challenging part of your journey till now?

With every business there are one or the other challenge for us the biggest challenge was getting payment processing service for our platform was the biggest challenge but we were able find the solution for this for both India and International users.

How did you overcome those challenges?

Continuous search for the right partners and with the right team we were able to solve those problems.

Share some details about the investments that you have been able to fetch for the business till now.

At truelancer we are blessed with right Angel investors who have put faith in us and the business we have raised a angel fund and are currently looking to raise our seed round of $1M to fuel our growth plans and support the community, also we are making revenue and will also be in operational breakeven in next 3 months.

How do you protect yourself from the problem of Brain Drain?

The only way to solve this problem is culture and innovation. You need to innovate and keep the right culture which keep the team together.

At Truelancer working to build something for billion people is the passion which help us focused.

According to you, what are the three qualities an individual must have to achieve success?

Focus, Patience and just do it attitude is really important for every individual to achieve success.

Which online tools/ services/ apps do you use the most and would like to recommend as well?

Slack / Trello / Truelancer ( we also hire freelancers ) are the services we use on daily basis.

Share any one habit which you think makes you more productive.

Keeping a ToDo list helps me be more productive.

Share any one habit which you wish to change in yourself.

I always want to find some more time for family and friends but land up spending more time in work.

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One tip to success:

Do it, Believe in It and be ready to change.

One mistake you believe every individual must avoid:

One should adapt to changes and be ready to make it when required.

One most important lesson that you have learnt till now:

Be ready for Surprises, in a startup live every day and bring entirely different situations.

What are your plans for next 3 years?

We are building for long time, right now we are focused on Asian Market and are aggressively working to bring more than 30 Million Freelancers online in next 3 years.

If you get a chance to start your career again what would you do differently this time?

I love what i am doing and would like to start early.

What are your top three getaway destinations?

Udaipur

Rishikesh

Nainital

Share a quote that inspires you the most

“Ask, Believe and Receive”.

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rashida

thanks for this information

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