05 May, 2013

Having got an opportunity to accompany her husband to a tour of Thailand some 35 years ago, Mrs. Kamala Shrestha was quick to realize an opportunity to introduce a new professional sector back in the country, after a quick environmental scanning during her stay. Surmounting the ubiquitous family and societal restrains in a typical Nepali society, Kamala Shrestha pioneered the profession of a beautician, and through her continual perseverance, she has successfully established the profession as a main-stream stake in the national economy, thus proving herself as an exemplary self-made entrepreneur.

24 April, 2013

The 41st edition of Last Thursdays with an entrepreneur featured a man who is known for his diversified roles—Mr. Sujeev Shakya—a business executive with a societal conscience, Mr. Shakya holds a graduate diploma in international marketing from Boston University. He is a chartered accountant, a business strategy maker and the founding member of Beed Management.

18 March, 2013

Mr. Binod Chaudhary has a dream to list his company in the Wall Street Stock Exchange which he believes is possible with hard work and determination. He studied in a community school Aardsha Vidhyalaya in Ghathaghar, Bhaktapur. He comes from a family background of entrepreneurs and businessmen and because of this reason he had a modest base in doing business. Although he came from a business background he still faced a lot of difficulties in his early days.

10 January, 2013

Mrs. Laxmi Sharma also known as “The Button Lady” and Nepal’s first women tempo driver who attended school only for three days is now the proud proprietor of Laxmi Wood Craft Udhyog. Mrs. Sharma was born in Maharajgunj, Kathmandu on 18th November, 1949 A.D. When she was only five, she was sent to one of the palaces in the country as a maid servant to serve the then Princess Bunu Maharani, sister of the then king Tribhuvan. She was assigned a job of cleaning the temple inside the palace as well as preparing for the daily Puja. After serving the princess for six years she left the job at the palace.

07 December, 2012

Mr. Rabindra Puri always wanted to study Fine Arts but his parents wanted otherwise and so convinced him to study law. As per the wishes of his parents, he enrolled as a student of law. Alongside, he also clung on to his own dreams by studying Fine Arts. He had a hard time balancing both his studies for a couple of years because he hadn’t told his family about having joined Fine Arts too. Eventually, his parents came around—he was doing well in both the subjects and had started making sculptures too. His family let go of their objection and paid for both his courses.

04 October, 2012

Born and raised in a remote village in the eastern part of Nepal, Mr. Umesh Shrestha passed School Leaving Certificate (SLC) in 2028 B.S and has been involved in the education sector for the past 32 years.

07 September, 2012

Born and raised in Nangi, a remote village in the mountainous Myagdi District of western Nepal, Mr. Pun spent his childhood grazing cattle, and attending a village school. Pun's life changed dramatically when his father, a retired Gurkha, took a remarkable step of moving the family to the southern plains of Nepal and investing their entire savings in his son's education.

10 August, 2012

Originally from Suri VDC in Gorkha district, Mr. Gurung is currently involved in agriculture based business which he has been running for the last 18 years. He came to Kathmandu from his village for higher education. He had heard that Nepal was rich in the variety of herbs and so he wanted to learn about possibilities of entrepreneurship in the sector and that was how he went on to enroll in Ayurvedh campus. He recalls how during his days in the Ayurvedh campus in 1990 the country had just got the multi party democracy.

06 July, 2012

Nischal Basnet, is the director of the recent Nepali movie ‘Loot’ that has taken the Nepali film industry by storm. With his parents wanting him to become a Doctor or an Engineer, Nischal always wanted to do something different. Right after finishing his SLC in 1998, Nischal started training with a football club aspiring to become a professional football player, but that didn’t work. He then also wanted to become a single that didn’t work out as well.

08 June, 2012

Having recently completed ‘The Great Himalaya Trail’, Dawa Steven Sherpa, is a young tourism expert and a successful mountaineer who runs his family business Asian Trekking Private Limited. Dawa has been involved in Tourism and with this family business since 2005.