Who is Sharaddha Sharma? How did she succeed as a female entrepreneur?

Shraddha Sharma is the Founder and Chief Editor of YourStory.com.

The YourStory platform brings you stories of entrepreneurs and change-makers, funding analyses, resource pieces, and the first glimpse of emerging trends from India’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, as well as profiles of great businesses and entrepreneurs from all over the world.

Although she was born in Bihar (Patna) in July 1980, Her dad was a merchant officer in the Indian Navy. After pursuing her graduation and master's degrees from St Stephen's College (Delhi), she enrolled in MICA Ahmadabad, where she pursued her MBA degree. Then, at that time, she met Gaurav, who was a math student, and they tied a knot with each other. Elaborating further, they both joined NBC TV 18. As a very skillful and dedicated person, Sharaddha became the youngest assistant vice president at NBC TV 18. However, she also worked for a popular company, Times Of India.

During her work, Shraddha met people who were willing to try their luck in the Indian startup business. While working for TOI, it was felt that there were many such entrepreneurs in India who had new startups and nobody even knew about them. They were also unable to find such platforms that highlighted their business stories, and ideas so that people could learn about their businesses. It was not that there was no media at that time. People did not know about the startup, or there was no news about the startup. The media only focused on big and popular companies, and then, she started to write her own blog. She named her blog YourStory. It turned out to be perfect for her blog, because here the story of small businesses and small entrepreneurs was kept in front of the world. This helped and inspired many businesses.

Later, it grew from a blog to a company. At YourStory platform, there have been more than seventy thousand stories handled by its passionate team, with a reader base of one million, and its content available in twelve languages. When it started, Shraddha did her best. In fact, she spent sleepless nights working on her company. There had come a time when she used to get a lot of rejections.

When she left the job at CNB, everyone used to treat her strangely, and during her journey through YourStory, her mom passed away. And after so much trouble, she now has the tag of the biggest story teller in India's digital space and India's biggest startup and entrepreneur story. Although the biggest personalities in the business world also invest in YourStory, like Vanikola, TV Mohandaspai, and even Ratan Tata. In 2010, she was given the Villgro Journalist of the Year Award. In 2015, her name was listed among 500 LinkedIn influencers across the world.

What is YourStory.com? How does it work?

YourStory.com is a media platform that covers the startup ecosystem in India.

YourStory.com is India’s largest media tech company for startups, entrepreneurs, investors, innovators, and change-makers.

YourStory has been the single most definitive storytelling platform for entrepreneurs, innovators, and change makers since 2008. Since then, it has published over 20,000 stories about entrepreneurs. YourStory, and sister platforms, HerStory, SocialStory, YS TV, YS Research, and YS Pages, have reached 60 million engaged readers. YourStory has been the most prominent startup ecosystem builder in India, hosting over 220 events across YS Meetups, Tech Sparks, Mobile Sparks, and She Sparks. These events have had a direct impact on over 1.7 million people.

YourStory is taking its boldest step yet as it embarks on its mission to reach out to the over 500 million Indians who will be online in 2017. This October, YourStory will unveil India’s first tech product that will publish original stories in Indian languages. Even as the flagship English platform, YourStory.com, continues to grow rapidly, YourStory’s team will create original content in Indian languages, starting with Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, and Marathi.

YourStory strongly believes in the democratisation of content and will give every Indian the power to tell their stories in their own language. Millions of Indians can narrate their stories through text, voice, or video. To get an invite to access the new vernacular platform, register at india.yourstory.com.

Now take a look at what the company says about themselves.

Our passion for entrepreneurship and its resounding global resonance is only matched by our zeal to bring our peers onto a single platform for a free-flowing exchange of ideas and visions. We work from all over India to bring the best and the brightest entrepreneurs into the limelight they deserve. The YourStory Team brings you stories of entrepreneurs and change-makers, funding analyses, resource pieces, and the first glimpse of emerging trends from India’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, as well as profiles of great businesses and entrepreneurs from all over the world.

The YourStory team primarily works out of Bengaluru, Karnataka, but has a presence throughout India through its correspondents in English and 12 Indian languages, including Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Urdu, Bengali, Oriya, and Assamese. What started as a small but robust group founded by Shraddha Sharma in 2008 has now grown by leaps and bounds, and yet it revels in its child-like enthusiasm about the ecosystem every single day. Our content across text, video, and social media is positive, vibrant, celebratory, even analytical, but never cynical. It reflects who we are as the best storytellers in the country! And who doesn’t love a good story?

We have published close to 60,000 stories of entrepreneurs and change-makers and helped more than 50,000 entrepreneurs access networking and funding opportunities. Our flagship event, Tech Sparks, is now in its eighth year and has become India’s biggest and most loved startup summit. We also hold other industry events such as MobileSparks to provide entrepreneurs in niche areas a platform for visibility, networking, funding, and mentoring. YourStory also works with some of the biggest brands worldwide, enhancing their visibility and engagement with a tech-savvy base of readers through high-quality content. Check out our offerings here. Our mission has been to tell stories that matter, stories with heart and drive, and that wouldn’t be possible without the passion of our team – they are the heart and soul of YourStory. They each have something that drives them to write, build, design, shoot, edit, and publish these stories.