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Amul's own page for prospective franchisees, the cleanest example of a low-investment franchise in India: setup costs excluding property usually run Rs 1.5 lakh to Rs 6 lakh by format, with no royalty or revenue share. An Amul Parlour needs a Rs 25,000 refundable deposit, 100 to 150 sq ft, about Rs 80,000 of renovation and about Rs 80,000 of equipment.
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- There is no royalty or profit sharing; you earn the retail margin on Amul's products.
- A Scooping Parlour needs 250 to 400 sq ft, a Rs 50,000 deposit, about Rs 3 lakh of interiors and about Rs 1.5 lakh of equipment.
- Apply only through Amul's own channels; you bear the shop, staff and power costs.
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A current (July 2026) guide to starting a home tiffin or dabba service: the Rs 100-a-year FSSAI Registration is the one universal requirement, no GST is needed below Rs 20 lakh of turnover even on Swiggy or Zomato, and the real gatekeepers are your housing society and municipal by-laws.
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- FSSAI Basic Registration costs Rs 100 a year and covers home kitchens.
- Below Rs 20 lakh turnover a tiffin service does not have to register for GST.
- Get the housing society or landlord NOC in writing before investing.
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A clear July 2026 checklist for a consulting practice in India: no licence for generic consulting, Shops and Establishment in most states, professional tax where levied, GST at Rs 20 lakh of services turnover, an LUT for zero-rated foreign billing, and why you do not need an IEC to export services.
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- Only regulated professions (CA, CS, lawyer, architect) need a professional body registration.
- Register for GST at Rs 20 lakh, or earlier if company clients want your GSTIN.
- Start as a proprietor; move to an LLP or private limited when partners, liability or hiring demand it.
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The official description of Mudra loans for non-farm micro enterprises in manufacturing, trading and services: loans up to Rs 20 lakh in four tiers (Shishu, Kishore up to Rs 5 lakh, Tarun up to Rs 10 lakh, and Tarun Plus up to Rs 20 lakh for those who repaid a Tarun loan).
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- Mudra covers small business loans up to Rs 20 lakh through banks and NBFCs.
- Tarun Plus (up to Rs 20 lakh) is only for borrowers who have repaid an earlier Tarun loan.
- Applications up to Rs 5 lakh should be decided within two weeks, per the banking code the page cites.
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The government's own summary of PMEGP, the credit-linked subsidy for new micro enterprises run by KVIC: the subsidy is 15% of project cost in cities and 25% in villages for general applicants, and 25% and 35% for special categories, on projects up to Rs 50 lakh in manufacturing and Rs 20 lakh in services.
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- General applicants put in 10% of project cost; special categories put in 5%.
- The maximum project cost for the subsidy is Rs 50 lakh for manufacturing and Rs 20 lakh for a business or service unit.
- Projects costing up to Rs 10 lakh under PMEGP need no collateral, per the page.
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Lijjat's own account of how seven women in one building in Girgaum, Mumbai, started making papad on 15 March 1959, and grew into a women's organisation of more than 45,000 members with 83 branches. The plainest Indian proof that a home business started with almost nothing can scale.
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- Lijjat began with 7 women in one residential building in 1959.
- It now counts more than 45,000 member sisters across India.
- It began with papad and later added masala, atta and detergent.
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FSSAI's own order setting the food licence tiers in force from 1 April 2026: Registration up to Rs 1.5 crore turnover, State Licence above Rs 1.5 crore and up to Rs 50 crore, Central Licence above Rs 50 crore. It supersedes the old Rs 12 lakh and Rs 20 crore limits most guides still quote.
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- A food business with turnover up to Rs 1.5 crore needs only FSSAI Registration, not a licence.
- State Licence covers Rs 1.5 crore to Rs 50 crore; Central Licence is above Rs 50 crore.
- The order took effect on 1 April 2026 and replaces every earlier threshold.
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This is the concrete how-to for collecting problems on purpose. It walks through Amy Hoy's Sales Safari method, where you observe a group you understand where they already hang out online, in their own words, and harvest the pains they complain about repeatedly. It turns keep a running list of frustrations from a slogan into a repeatable practice.
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- Watch a group you know in the places they already gather
- Record the pains and workarounds in their exact words
- Patterns that repeat across many people point to real product ideas
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