India, May 24 -- Startup Mantra | DIY skill platform

Prateek Bharadwaj started Skillinabox with a sale of Rs.35 lakhs without even a product! Today his start-up, whichoffers online fashion design courses,rakes in revenues of Rs.2 crore a month

Fortune favours the brave and those with good intentions.

When Prateek Bharadwaj completed his Mechanical Engineering degree from VIT Vellore, he followed a path familiar to many graduates: he got a job.

"I worked with IL&FS Skills, the NSDC, and several other government initiatives at the grassroots level," he recalls.

This on-the-ground experience taught him a valuable lesson: for any education to be meaningful, it must empower the learner with skills that lead to financial independence.

"Vo...