The Testament

24th April, 2012.

The day it all began. My entrepreneurial journey as the founder of the university tabloid called ; I was just a first year college kid. The paper reached 10 colleges, 12000 students. From this paper to SpotHealth. It's been quite a ride. :)

When things work, it's magic. You feel like you're at the centre of a revolution. It's a heavy trip! Failure, in contrast, makes you feel like a solo traveller lost in a desert. The scorching sun feels so close to you, that it could burn you, and you wouldn't feel anything.

Both the experiences mean something, and teach you a lot. More than anything, they teach you that you're only a part of the big story that plays out. You can try, but these things (art, companies, relationships) have a life of their own. You can't "force anything". The trick is to go with the flow and see where the road takes you. You think ten ideas in pursuit of something great, and one clicks. You never know! "Something great is right around the corner" is a great line to live by.

It's been 9 years since that day. 9 years, and...running Newsapers, Online Media, Manpower Outsourcing and so on! Eventually creating employment opportunities for close to 1500 people from 300 cities. Working for over 150 companies, having done a business of over a Million Dollars, easily. Little successes, big failures. A lot of fun.

From this paper to SpotHealth. It's been quite a ride. The game is on, and "something great is right around the corner", right? Right.

Cheers! :)
- Nishant Mittal

The Testament started on this very date. A bunch of freshman year college kids wanted to do something great, so they kicked some dust and got on their feet.

It's been eight years since then and we've been changing ourselves everyday. We started as a print publication, went on to do pioneering work in Market Acquisition & Manpower Outsourcing, followed by attempts at revolutionizing the recruitment industry with some solid tech platforms. Phew! Taking our learnings forward and aiming higher, we even went on to create Cread - a social networking platform for artists to collaborate and monetize their work. The ride has been crazy and it's surreal to think that we did all that work.

In this entire journey, we did a business of around a million USD, working with over 1200 people across 220 cities of the country. We served over 100 companies; from Fortune500s to the biggest startups of this country, we saw them all. It's been a journey full of ups and downs, strikes and failures, laughter and cries, and most importantly - changes. It's been a journey full of changes.

And change is what has happened yet again. We've initiated a new startup called ClassEat which wants to make healthy living a mass movement. We've done some really innovative work in the field of biotechnology and are carrying it to the masses with our social networking platform focused on health. Working in stealth mode, we've won a few competitions, incubation from a couple of funds, and the trust of a lovely angel investor. It's exciting, but we'd need a lot of luck and support to make it big! With you rooting for us, I don't think it'll be a problem at all. Cheers to that!

I want to end this with a few lines from The Brook, by Alfred Tennyson:

For men may come and men may go,
But I go on forever.

That's the spirit, folks. Happy eighth birthday to The Testament family. Infinite love and respect!

Yours truly,
Nishant Mittal

This is great advise! If you're trying to avoid non-vegetarian food, it makes sense to go to places which only make vegetarian food! Read on!

CC. Great job, ClassEat!

If you’re a vegetarian, AVOID (places that sell) Non Veg food Expecting every restaurant to cater to your seriousness for vegetarianism isn't practical. To avoid Non veg food, you'll have to go for 'Veg only' places.