Choice is YOURS
Abhishek and Ashwani Singh first met during their schooling at AMU ABK High School. In their early childhood days, they both wish to pursue engineering. Ashwani continues with his vision and became an engineer. Talking about Abhishek, though he got AIR 2643 in UPSEEE and he was eligible to get admission in well-reputed engineering colleges. However, he denied admission to Engineering college and wish to move towards his dream which is to see the change in society.
In pursuit of his dream to have a better world, he shifts his focus from becoming an engineer to a lawyer. Presently, Abhishek Gupta Kaalecoatwale is an entrepreneur and running his startup. Not only this he is also, working towards the journal names as National Journal for Legal Research and Innovative Ideas. A brief about Kaalecoatwale.com. Indeed they are brand new concepts that Abhishek and his friend are working on. However, it is only when you dare to do something different the world will accept its presence and usability. Kaalecoatwale.com has been started with the aim to connect all the legal fraternity and legal students at a single platform. This platform is useful for everyone ranging from law students to lawyers to clients to legal advisors.
A Responsible Childhood
They both have a keen interest in entrepreneurship since childhood. To keep their passion fueled Abhishek Gupta Kaalecoatwale.com
tried his hands with Home Tuitions, transforming the small level business into an online one. At a very young age, he develops an insight towards business and the actual working of entrepreneurs. He advises and analyses small businesses and many such things.
While Abhishek Gupta Kaalecoatwale.com was taking coaching for IIT JEE, he figured out an opportunity from that even. He starts promotion about his coaching institute in his school. He did this by taking various seminars on his school premises regarding the same. In this way, he was earning along with his own studies. There isn’t a hard and fast need for him to earn at that age, however, he still did just to become independent also to feed his passion. Only a few knew that Abhishek is keenly interested in philanthropy. The money he earns from these sources and savings from his expenses is spent as an aid for the needy children. Indeed a noble thought at such tender age.
Inspiring life as a youth
Currently, Abhishek Gupta is a law student at the Faculty of Law, Aligarh Muslim University. On the other hand, Ashwani Singh is going to be an IT Graduate soon. They both are the curators and conceptualizers behind this virtual legal world kaalecoatwale.com. Abhishek is engaged with his two NGO’s Roti Bank, Aligarh, and Ummid Seva Samiti. He also teaches underprivileged students at his own expense. Further, Abhishek initiates “National Journal for Legal Research and Innovative Ideas” The aim is to promote research work, enhance legal academics, legal awareness in society, and promote original legal writing among law students and young academics. Also, to focus on bridging the gap between research and practice and Implementation of new and varied techniques of learning.
Under his mentorship, there are many students who have learned about legal research and writing and its importance in academics and in practical life. Till now almost 257 students have done an internship in kaalecoatwale.com and National Journal for Legal Research and Innovative Ideas.
Challenges and Hurdles
Life is about accepting the challenges along the way, choosing to keep moving forward, and savouring the journey. Abhishek too has his own share of challenges. The best thing about him is he never succumbed to any of the hurdles that come his way. In many interviews, he uses to cite his favourite quote that “YOU ARE BORN FOR A PURPOSE”. With such words, he keeps building on the challenges and struggles. From these challenges, he fights, learns and then brings that experience to work towards earning money. We can say for Abhishek that he has more than experience as, he started at a tender age, when no one thinks of earning, he has a different thought process under which he, earned, learned, and gave shape to his today’s entrepreneurial journey.
Struggles as an entrepreneur
In an interview, he said: “Too many cooks spoil the broth”, same is for Abhishek, he finds it very challenging to coordinate with a team. To build a great team to ensure the quality of the things is necessary and are of concern. To have a team who can provide your services with the same conviction, to learn, manage the fast-growing organization is a big task. He reinstates that it is not only with me but with all the founders who wish to build a name for themselves in the world. To stay positive, productive when things don’t dislodge, keeping the spirits high amidst failure and incomplete projects that just don’t progress might be a big challenge for the founder having their start-up.
Abhishek, recalls his time when at the time of initiating the idea of project Kaalecoatwale, he spoke to many Senior/Experienced Lawyers to execute this idea. Some of them disregarded the idea but many of them appreciated his idea to connect lawyers globally. Creating a virtual platform for all the legal fraternity all around the world is his aim. Along with this, Abhishek is working on a sensitive yet vital issue i.e. Online Dispute Resolution, in his area he wants to introduce Online Dispute Resolution at the place of ADR.
The decision to refuse Engineering
His life struggle, Abhishek, recollects the time when he was young and the decision about his life was taken by his parents and he decided not to progress towards engineering. For this he has prepared, appeared and has come 12 with those subjects and now he is refusing to opt for engineering. This decision was crucial as it was the question of his life and he was not so grown up to decide for his life. On the other hand, he was regularly getting calls from various engineering colleges. He refuses to all of them was because he wanted to see the change in society.
He understood that the path is going to be tough, as he has to prepare again for entrance and has to appear for different exams in other subjects, which he has not studied previously. His family was in utter confusion. Abhishek Gupta Kaalecoatwale.com, reassured his parents that this is the right decision that he is taking and it will give him growth and he is willing to work even harder towards this. He said it is always the criticism in the starting and appreciation later. In those dark times, one has to keep the faith and just keep doing the work, to trust the process is always difficult and soul-crushing, but that is where success really takes place so one must keep going, He added.
How he found an opportunity in the pandemic
When everyone is struggling to find a ray of hope during this pandemic of two years. Abhishek Gupta and Ashwani Kaalecoatwale.com startup story both engrossed in their project. Day in and day out, they both have been working towards having a prototype for the hybridization of Law and Technology. Abhishek worked hard for 6-7 months, however, in his words, he calls himself a smart
worker and his hard work according to him is smart working.
Finally, Abhishek and Ashwani Singh came up with their startup. A brief idea behind this is, in the general name “Kaalecoatwale.com refer to a person in a black suit who is practising law and judiciary. It is an online platform to get lawyer referrals done. This space helps you to find the right lawyer in your city. We are providing a platform for our lawyers and clients for direct interaction. Whether you are drafting your will buying/selling real estate, getting a divorce, or any other legal need, we are providing the best lawyers for all your need. You are looking for a lawyer, maybe you are a lawyer then kaalecoatwale.com is the right place to get connected.
At present we are having contacts from more than 300 lawyers across the globe. We at kaalecoatwale.com also provide online coaching for various law entrance exams with help of the best mentors from the various NLUs or top rankers of CLAT/AILET etc. kaalecoatwale.com Store provides all the things needed for a lawyer or for a law student like books, tie, bow, Coat-Pant Etc. In this way, kaalecoatwale.com is the premier one-stop platform for the legal fraternity.
Abhishek Gupta’s Entrepreneurial Success Mantras
- Serve quality over quantity
- Customer satisfaction must be the priority
- Solve the problem
- Bring a solution
- Be Honest
- Be Consistent
- Avoid Criticism
- Never put yourself on eggs.
A message for future startups from Abhishek Gupta
Trust the process, you are the game-changer. You have been born for some purpose. If you have decided to enter into entrepreneurship be ready to face the challenges. There will be a new challenge on every new day in your way. The vital is to have a roadmap followed by the strategy. When you’re ready with both, then it’s time to move ahead. Always have a backup plan i.e. Plan B.
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