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“A picture is worth a thousand words” is an old saying, and heaven forgive the cliché but it applies here. When it comes to online photo printing and personalized merchandising, I was quite unaware that one person could seamlessly bind the two. However, now that he has done it, the cohesion looks obvious. Ankit Khanna is a 27 year old Entrepreneur and young by any standards who has created itasveer.com – online photo printing and personalized merchandise service.

He pursued the ideals of an entrepreneur for his own reasons which he states saying “Regular job doesn’t give you enough freedom to showcase creativity, acumen and skills in a most useful and resourceful manner. Creating something from scratch and watching it grow bigger as a baby gives immense satisfaction. Nothing can match the same.”

He has jumped many hurdles and cleared them all, each one taking him closer to his goal. On his tests of entrepreneurial skill he says “There were many. When we guys started, we hardly had any noticeable experience to carry out any function. But we are determined to learn and that kept us going from day one.”

“Paucity of funds and lack of business acumen were the key challenges. The team was small and task was huge. So scarcity of good talent was missing. In any business, cashing key contacts is necessary which we lacked. But we picked up these later quite well.”

Ankit is known for saying “always be hopeful” and adds “At times, you might get frustrated and disappointed, and feel like giving up. This is very natural and bound to happen. I never took these thoughts seriously and dealt with these situations maturity.”