{"id":69,"date":"2014-02-04T05:59:03","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T05:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indiabizforsale.wordpress.com\/?p=69"},"modified":"2026-05-26T11:21:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T11:21:30","slug":"why-we-built-indiabizforsale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indiabizforsale.com\/blog\/why-we-built-indiabizforsale\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Built IndiaBizForSale – The Founders’ Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Originally published: February 4, 2014 | Last updated: May 26, 2026<\/em>, A note from Bhavin Bhagat, Co-founder, IndiaBizForSale<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most people assume IndiaBizForSale began as a business idea. It did not. It began as a problem Priya and I were living through ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Around 2011-12, our family owned a pharmaceutical business in Uttarakhand. For reasons familiar to many Indian family businesses, succession, life decisions, the next chapter, we decided it was time to sell it. What we expected to be a difficult-but-doable process turned out to be much harder than we had imagined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was no real place to go. No platform where serious buyers were looking for businesses like ours. The brokers we met asked for steep upfront fees with no real network behind them. Information was scattered, valuations were arbitrary, and confidentiality was almost impossible to maintain, every conversation seemed to leak somewhere. We were running a real, working business in a real industry, and yet we felt completely alone in trying to find the right buyer for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eventually we got through it. But we came out of that experience asking ourselves one question, over and over again, if this was so hard for us, what must it be like for the thousands of other Indian business owners going through the same thing right now?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That question is why IndiaBizForSale exists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We did not start this platform because we saw a market opportunity. We started it because we had been on the seller’s side of the table, and we knew exactly what was missing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This post is not a sales pitch. It is what I would tell you if you sat across from me with a cup of chai and said, “Bhavin, I am thinking of selling my business. Where do I start?”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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