Meet: Deboshree Dutta
Founder of: RoomPlays
Tell us about your business:
RoomPlays is the first Global Virtual Interior Design Platform, that transparently connects Home Owners with Interior Designers, entirely online! We're Democratizing Interior Design, so everyone can have a well-styled home!
Interior Design has traditionally been for the affluent, and mostly inaccessible to most people. At RoomPlays, we aim to make quality Interior Design & Home Decorating accessible to everybody.
We empower Women-led small business Interior Designers, Creators & Freelancers to monetize their creativity by offering bespoke virtual design services to a global clientele, with our platform approach.
What was the best piece of business advice you were given when you were starting out?
Ask for Help : This is bigger than you and you need to bring people in to help shape and grow this into its full thriving potential
Knowing what you know now, what would you have done differently when you were first starting out?
I'd have started earlier. I was afraid to Fail : Failure is the first step to learning.
My learning - Don't hesitate to try something out because the worst thing that can happen is you learn something incredibly valuable!
Name the biggest overall lesson you've learned in running a business?
Do things that don't scale : Think big, Start small. Its ok if you're handcrafting every response, nothing is automated, you're manually doing a lot of things. Its ok. Its how everybody starts!
Does your culture influence your choices and decisions? If yes, how?
YES. I'm breaking through in the Home & Design space in the US Residential market - largely dominated by White Women. I hesitate to even show up (brown skin, Indian accent) on my own Instagram channel. Instead I've chosen to own it - and enroll fellow (white) designers to join and present a united face for RoomPlays. We're in the business of democratization - and we intend to be truly explore and showcase our diversity - in ethnic & economic backgrounds
In moments of self-doubt or adversity, how do you build your resolve?
Tap into your network. Build your tribe. Founding a business is an incredibly lonely journey- find your cohort of fellow founders to share and support through the million tough decisions you have to make as a business owner.
How do you balance your workload? What does self-care look like for you?
I'm a creator (@deesignplay) - I need to have an outlet for my creative energy. I take on simple fun DIY projects that spend a weekend just detaching myself from my business and immerse myself in a project or two. I know it sounds like more work - but that's really what I need to get my brain to relax :)
Discover more:
https://roomplays.com/
@roomplays
