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Representational image. Photo:: Pixabay Choosing a gift for your loved ones can be both a daunting and rewarding task. But what if your gift gives you an idea for your next venture? That is just what happened to two friends turned co-founders of Mastakala, a startup in Kathmandu. “It all started with confusion about what to gift our common friend. We wanted a give him a customised gift on his birthday. We looked around and took the pieces of wood we saw and decided to create a personalised table organiser,” Mastakala co-founder Nikhil Agrawal (28) shares. “It took us five to 10 minutes to put it together; it was nothing fancy. But the simple idea caught the attention of our curious friend who started asking if we were thinking about making it a business,” Agrawal says, “We had not, but, after that, we started considering taking the idea to the floor.” So, after three months of market research, the two friends started an office at their home and started making customised gift item...