India, Feb. 5 -- A Noida man has warned 9-to-5 employees to think twice before pouring money into a side hustle, saying that it could turn out to be a loss-making exercise without proper market research. Vishwas Verma's advice was rooted in personal experience - the Noida man revealed that he once started a shop selling eggs and juice outside a gym.

"Like many of us, I once believed small businesses are easy money...quick maths, instant profit. I believed it too. until I ran one myself," he said in an Instagram post.

Verma revealed that his brush with entrepreneurship began when he spotted a shop lying vacant near his gym. "The gym was in the basement, and so was the shop," he said in his Instagram video, speaking in Hindi.

Verma said ...