“Success is not measured by what you do compared to what others do, it is measured by what you do with everything you have.”
Who Is Teja ?
Sai Teja Ramesh is a young entrepreneur in India,
- He is the CEO of Thibstas, A company that serves businesses to grow in the modern world,
- Founder of Art Experimenter, which primarily focuses on combining art & science to create fun stuff.
Trust the process. Be patient & work
Teja was born in Hyderabad, India. grew up in a lower middle class family seeing the struggles of his parents. Who taught him how we make money is more important than how much we make.
“Humble Beginnings”
Teja, was extremely mischievous as a child, out of that curious nature he used to put his hands on everything from mud to fire, splashing in rainwater to climbing trees. always curious about everything around him.
The Story
It was probably the time when Teja’s dad lost his job in 1997 and his family couldn’t find a stable and reliable income source. His parents tried doing different things such as raising buffaloes to sell milk, make and sell food items, his mother used to do tailoring and his dad went to do small electrical works, what ever it was they struggled just to get enough money to pay off the debt and survive.
As a boy Teja grew up seeing these hardships and tried helping parents doing support tasks. He really know how it feels to be poor in life. He started doing things like selling mangoes on streets, buying and selling stuff.
As a child he was curious about everything, very creative, interested in art , science and business but average at school. He secretly wished to grow up soon, become successful to solve the problems of his parents.
So as all typical Indians do, He joined engineering and wanted to become successful by studying well, little did he knew that he will find hard fitting in the system of education, which was not built for people like him “Entrepreneurs.”
The Lost wanderer :
Always curious to learn something new to grow in life experimenting with everything possible, alone but never lonely in school and college.
He was trapped in this education system and he didn’t want to end up in to a career path that he never wanted to do.He wanted to become a scientist as a kid and start a business around his inventions but that was not happening with the education he is getting.
Finding Yourself – The Unknown
When he understood that all this education or “degrees” can help him to land on a safe job but can’t help him to achieve his dreams to create businesses and inventions to change the world.
He decided he need to figure out what he should do himself, but he didn’t know where to start. He read 100’s of books self help & “business books” especially, tried to take multiple online courses but all of these theory is worthless without execution. So, the path to find himself began.
Passion Check
He decided to test everything he can to find his passion , he understood that he wants to build businesses but where to begin there are too many options and too many ways and he is interested in a dozen or more things.
Life was a mess, he decided to check his passion by trying each and everything he is interested to do.
Made a list of things to try , and understand what he is really passionate about to do for the rest of his life.
90% execution & 10 % planning
EXPLORE
So the journey began & he tried everything from acting, martial arts, drawing, teaching art to kids, electrical engineering, selling stuff on streets, working for electrical projects as a worker, and selling clothes. he really wanted to know what he is made of, just to understand ! and taste stuff. while working on multiple startups and part-time jobs.
Experimenting & learning how to record videos
National Karate Tournament- 2015
Teaching Kids - Part Time
Visiting Industries & Factories
Learning By Doing.
First job - used to work 9-5 and work on his dream in the evening 7-1
The Shift
After doing various things , he was making money to support his family a bit but , It was not at all bringing him close to his dreams , may be he created a bubble which is comfortable even though he is exploring.
There was something missing what was that ? Its time for a shift,and he made that shift.
The Fall – First Failure :
He started his startup “Creative Tuitions” also known as “Innovative Learning Hub” an education-driven academy that provides coaching on various hobby classes, with his college mates, which blew up and managed to grow to 200K turnovers within just 5 months, little did he knew he was going to learn his biggest lessons in life, He faced his first failure after there were clashes within the partners and he has to come out of the startup he started.
Taking the big blow with pride – Never complain
He took the responsibility for his failure and understood there is a lot to learn.
Learning The Hard Way – Essentials of being an entrepreneur.
Going step by step – Strategize and Execute – Patience is everything
The Preparation – Finding Skills Necessary.
Trained himself working under various small business owners, startup owners for little or no money.
Learning from mistakes
JOURNEY WITH STARTUPS & BUSINESSES
Innovative Learning Hub
After leaving from his own startup in 2015 he restarted It in 2016 ran it successfully for 3 years. Managed 80+ Tutors as a Solopreneur, Taught 100’s of students.Closed Because he was not happy doing this, he really don’t want to do this all his life.
I believe information should be free, if something is taken as a fee it is for the time of the instructor & because of practical training a student will get.-Sai Teja Ramesh
Lessons Learnt :
Focusing on long term and keeping financial resources aside for it is really important for a business to survive.
2015-2019
Sleepless Late Night Works
Lonely Long Walks & Empty Pockets
Uncertain -18 hour work days
The Hustler with in.
Working on Multiple Startups & Part Time Jobs
No bike, no car - nothing fancy - Bus Rides
Confused, Messed up - Working 24*7
2016-2017
Swiftz Men
Door step services everything ranging from wall decors to day to day services.
Worked for free, Started with his college mate, Was an awesome experience, helped to start everything from scratch. and made it in to a workable business. Touched almost 5000+ clients.
Lessons Learnt:
- Its really important to do market research before getting started and differentiate the product or service,
- Bringing the business online is a must.
- without forming business systems, a business is hard to manage even with a team.
Remembro
An app we thought which could reinvent and disrupt social media.
Faced Investors , Didn’t make it because we didn’t have enough answers for app monetization, and app prototype was not up to mark.
Lessons Learnt:
Execution is the key, no matter how one speaks execution creates all the difference in the world.
2017-2018
2016
Memory Wrappers
Event Management Company
Worked for free, which got closed because of some personal issues of the founder.
Lesson Learnt: A business must never depend completely on one person.
2018
Alivioo
Online Marketing Agency
Worked with various startups & small businesses,
Now it’s renamed and relaunched in 2020 as Thibstas Media
2018
Marsintelli
Website & App Development Company
Helped in lead generation & sales, worked for free part time, learnt how to build websites & do awesome designs.
2018
Animolycka
Animal Welfare
NGO
2018
Plantflo
Plants Based Community
Worked for free, part time.
2019
Spansules Pharma
This is not a startup , but I call it a 20 year old startup,Worked as Executive Assistant to CEO & Project Coordinator.
Completed a 5 Cr INR project which was pending since two years with in 3 months after taking charge.
Learnt alot about management, project management, business systems & mindset of a business owner.
Reason to work: To learn and understand how the pharma industry functions.
THE JOURNEY CONTINUES
Currently Working On The Following
Currently Working
CEO: Thibstas Private Limited
Thibstas is A Modern Day Problem-Solving Company For Businesses.
Currently Working
Founder: Art Experimenter
Art Experimenter is Focused On Solving Needs Of Artists, Innovators & Creative Entrepreneurs.
Currently Working
Co- Founder
Memelabs.in Is a sub brand of Thibstas Media, Focused on Viral Marketing Through Memes, meme marketing, meme promotions, and branding with memes.
In Progress
Founder: Scrapor
Eco-friendly solutions for sustainable waste management as well as for global cleanliness.
Have a project in mind?
If you have a great idea, reach out to me. Whether it is a small or big project, I will listen first and get back to you with a plan.