1. 1. Growing up, I was always thinking about what I could do to change my life style. For years, I couldnt come up with anything, but during my 2 nd semester at Institute of Management Sciences, things started to get better. My Story I was born in 1991 in a small village of Swabi. Grown there as same as like other children grew. After getting admission in a school I started my business by selling notes, bringing books etc, for my class fellow from different shops. That became a business at that time for me as Ive saved a small amount in the start. I got motivated as my first venture become successful and so started selling Mobile phones and their accessories etc in very small age. This one became profitable too and people started calling me a Mobile Guru/Master. BUT This didnt mean that I stopped my struggle here. The spirit residing in me was convincing me to do more, to expand my sale to the rest of the world without any limitation. But suddenly, all things around me were changed due to the death of my father and so I stopped my struggle for some time. Now each and everything became new for me. The people, their and their behavior, the environment, the food and in the middle of all these problems, only I stood alone. I was the one standing alone. However, I completed my Intermediate with normal marks and started struggling for the admission in a university and accidently (feeling lucky now), I listed in Institute of Management Sciences Peshawar. On the other side, our financial condition wasnt so good, so like most of other students, I also started my search for something which I can do to earn extra money. At that time by mistakenly I received a message from an
2. 2. unknown number that if you want to earn money online? Send me your email address and that became the turning point of my whole life till now. I sent him email which were created with the help of one of my friend as I was not aware from internet like stuff. After getting the procedure through email I started my first online journey which was known as PTC (Paid to click) business. After 7 months of hard work and loosing almost RS 70,000, I came to the point that I am working on wrong side. So I invested my remaining money in another popular niche at that time called HYIP (High yield investment programs) (Double shah in Pakistan is the pure example of this business model). From the market I had generated more than $3000/- (Rs 300000) In 45 days. But in few days after joining, I came to know that earning money through this method is HARAM in Islam and the loss ratio is higher than profit. So again, I came back to the place with nothing in my hand. After quitting my work on HYIP I turned my luck in some other fields too including: ? Sharing crack version softwares for earning purpose (failed) ? Created a blog with the name of Mashable.pk (I was sued than as the name was registered trademark) once again failed. I was so much disappointed that I think if I set for explanation, then the words would come to end but at this stage one of my friend motivated me to start blogging with my own brand and finally the birth of my new baby child blog happened with the name of Techvela. After seeing so much failure now I was on a right path with right people (blogging community friends) on right niche with a clear vision/mission/aim in my mind to start helping people instead of earning money to protect people from Ponzi schemes. With the Grace of Almighty Allah and my hard day night work.
3. 3. I listed in Pakistan top 12 bloggers list in 2013 and top 10 bloggers list in 2014 convectively. I created and sold several successful blogs including my first one named Techvela. In 2013, I was selected as incubate at Entrepreneurship development center. In 2014, I received the best idea presenter award in a competition with 60 other ideas presenters held in KP by Peshawar 2.0 with the collaboration of Pasha Industry Pakistan. At the same time, I was featured on Tribune and Techjuice. I left my physical job at Legacy Pharma, Tasteintrain, and AVT Khyber in the same era. In 2014, I started my work at Institute of Management Sciences by arranging different seminars on freelancing, blogging, apps and games development to educate more and more people toward IM|Business (Internet marketing). Today I have 12 employees, 3 successful blogs, done 157+ projects, 87+ students enrolled for learning (including teachers of Imsciences/UET). And finally in 2015, I started KOKANE in joint venture with Mubashir Riaz from the money I earned online. He is a freelancer, blogger and more importantly my room Mate. Through all my Entrepreneurial journey, I had several failures (many of them are not- listed above). I simply learned from those and kept moving forward with my will and the prayers of my Mother. I have only one lesson for those who say that I have no skills, its not possible for me etc etc, the definition of disability (lack of work/skills) is something that will hinder you from being able to do something. I found my purpose. I found my strength, and now I want you to find your one!