Take Few Hours Off Work: Avneet Makkar

I have been working with my other co-founder who has been a close friend and colleague for the last 9 years. So, when we started the company a year and a half back, we knew each other’s strengths and weaknesses well and we believe that has helped us a lot in working together as a team. From our experience I feel that there are two possible reasons why conflicts can happen :  Work division is not very formalized when you are in a start up. This could result in issues at times as co-founders may have different views on things. Secondly,   initial years are tough for the start-ups as you face new issues every day. There are times when you feel nothing is going right and at this time, what you need is a lot of mental strength & positive attitude.

We have had our share of conflicting viewpoints but we when that happens we have taken a few hrs off work, discussed it and cleared off the air before things worsen. So, talking through things and being open to each other I think has worked the best for us.

Avneet Makkar is the Co-Founder & President-Business Strategy and Operations of CarveNiche. Prior to this, she has worked with Infosys and Tata. She is a graduate in Computer Science and Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Warangal.