Skills learned from YouTube provided an opportunity to grow business during the Corona period. The television business reality show 'Shark Tank Nepal' brought in investors.

Sandhya Gaure, who has been weaving and shaping the seeds of the pot into threads, has taken her entrepreneurship to the next level by opening a shop in Narayangadh's Putali Bazaar on Friday.

She said that she initially started making various handicraft items from threads by watching YouTube. After not seeing much market for it, she increased her research. After seeing Africans wearing colorful artistic potes on YouTube, she decided to sell similar items.

Sandhya, who hails from Narayangadh Kshetrapur, is based in Butwal Jogikuti. She wandered around Butwal Bazaar in search of potes. 'After seeing Africans wearing yellow designer potes on YouTube, I also wanted to make and sell them.' But when I went to look for them in Butwal, I couldn't find any yellow potes,' Sandhya said.

This incident happened eight years ago. A pot is a very important item for Hindu women. Married women wear pots. She was shocked when she did not find the pot she wanted in the Butwal market. ‘Initially, I used to buy pearls for five thousand rupees and make garlands and sell them to my friends and sisters around me. After seeing African women wearing pots, I thought of making something similar, but when I could not find them in Butwal, I went to Kathmandu and bought a pot for 50 thousand rupees,’ said Sandhya. Seeing the pots, the women started choosing the design, color and size.

She used to buy ready-made pots from Kathmandu and sell them. ‘But my sisters thought I made them at home. They started asking me to make them like this, if they are long, make them short. That is why I did not even learn the art of making this pot,’ said Sandhya. Then she learned to make pot designs by watching YouTube. She had been selling the materials made in this way around the neighborhood. After

, she started selling the goods online by posting them on the social media TikTok. Maiti had come to Kshetrapur when the Corona outbreak started. She stopped here after the lockdown. She started working from the dead. She trained one of her sisters and made them weave the grandchild. ‘Now, four people are weaving grandchild with me. Four/five people who are in prison weave,’ said Sandhya. When

TikTok was closed in the middle, she promoted and sold the goods by posting reels and videos on Facebook. ‘I had seen the Shark Tank video while looking at Facebook. I also applied with my business idea. Later I got a call and went. An investment of Rs 2 million was also raised from there,’ she said. Entrepreneurs and business personalities of Shark Tank can invest in participants.

In the last Ashar, Cabinet Shrestha had invested Rs 2 million in Sandhya's entrepreneurial plan related to her grandson on Shark Tank. Sandhya inaugurated her first showroom in Putali Bazaar on Friday evening with the same Cabinet Shrestha as the chief guest. Her enterprise has now moved from online to showroom. She said that she has great hopes for the business to grow. 'It is a good thing to turn a traditional poison like grandson into an enterprise and provide employment to seven or eight people. That is why I am eager to invest,' said Cabinet Shrestha, who came to inaugurate the project. The grandson prepared by Sandhya is also ordered by Nepali women living abroad.