Women Entrepreneurs

She was asked to join London School of Economics before she declared that it was music she would rather go for instead of continuing her studies after graduation. She was born in Delhi to Tamilian parents and was brought up in the company of a Bengali couple. Later on, she moved to Mumbai and is now settled in Bangaluru. Kavita has performed with almost all great playback singers of the industry and has given famous numbers for many actresses. She says that if you have your focus intact, bad people won’t influence you and God will take care of...

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She took her chance in a field which is already been tapped by lots of players. Monica Agrawal, from her personal experiences, noted that there is a need of online portals that could allow the customers to customize their products with luxury type packing. She finally took the plunge as she launched her online gift portal Gogappa.com We present an email interview with Monica. Q1. Tell us about your childhood and your studies. I grew up in Mumbai and completed my undergraduate studies here. I then went to San Francisco for pursing my Masters in CS. Being in Silicon...

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Women entrepreneurs are making a real difference in India, growing within their industries, stimulating passion for learning and delighting their customers with innovations. One such example of a leading woman entrepreneur is Anisha Singh, Founder and CEO of mydala.com, which is India’s first and largest group buying/social commerce portal offering city-specific and pan India deep-discount deals. The 3rd Edition Women Leaders in India held recently in Mumbai, conferred the prestigious ‘Leading Woman in Retail’ Award to Anisha Singh, for pioneering the concept of discounted deals by leveraging the power of social commerce in India, which has today become a...

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Ritambhara is a serial entrepreneur, a Business Lawyer, Speaker and Author of various International Publications, specializing in corporate commercial laws and Intellectual Property Law. She also has significant transactional experience in transactional legal (M&A, private equity, structured lending and funds structuring), general corporate (foreign direct/portfolio investment, JVs and other corporate advisory including tax) and IP Portfolio Management. She is managing partner at Intelligere. We had an email interview with Ritambhara. Q1. Tell us about Intelligere. How do you feel there is a need for IPR consultancy in the business scenario? Every business consists of tangible and intangible assets. With...

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YourNextLeap.com is a recommendation engine which acts as a virtual career counsellor to help students make smarter career decisions. It involves a suite of online tools, which use psychometric evaluations and math models on past admission patterns, to give out personalized suggestions. The applications help students increase their chances of admissions by finding colleges where they have maximum chances of admissions and also choose the right stream of study. Headquartered in Pune, India, the venture was started in October 2010 with a team of young and enthusiastic professionals from top Indian colleges. In a short period of time, the...

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The entrepreneur and investor spectrum is always abuzz with activity. On the web sphere, a lot is happening. There are websites, portals, and domains that bring these two ends together and make them work out on business plans that can be launched to bring about a change and a successful venture. Creating a business plan is what entrepreneurs are mostly concerned with when they have to approach investors for funding. Though there are many workshops, events and mentoring sessions that tell entrepreneurs how to do it, it still take a lot of effort and time to develop an effective...

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Aruna Gopakumar, Founder, Navgati started her venture as a provider of quality learning events. Founded 11 years ago, as an independent consultancy by her, it converted into a formal organisation 6 years back when the team felt that they had something significant. By education Aruna holds an engineering degree from Anna Univ (1991) and a PGDM from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (1993). She started her career in HR with IBM in Bangalore and moved to Sasken where she grew to head the HR team. Aruna has studied Transactional Analysis as a tool for personal growth for the last...

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Kids are the hope of future. They carry within themselves the potential that will further the cause of human race. In every doctrine around the world, it is mentioned that in the purest form, man is indeed God. God created human-kind in its own image. However, like the ocean put in a vessel with condensed freedom, the potential of each individual could vary from low to high. But, no human is without the spark of the creator. At the core, we all are fueled by the same universal energy. Okay, quick switch to the practical world, which is like...

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About CraftMyGift: CraftMyGift creates unique gifts high on creativity and personalization. It is not simply a gift shop but works as a gift advisor to suggest and create gifts which are perfect for your special occasion. There is a strong undercurrent in the consultation part when the company works with clients to create personalized and customized gifts for various types of occasions. CraftMyGift was started in 2008 with a vision to make the art of gifting an enriching experience. CraftMyGift creates gifts for individual occasions, corporate gifting as well as for events. CraftMyGift also works with corporate companies for...

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Venture Background: PINCHd is a free web-based service that leverages your social graph and existing means of communication to answer the the question “who’s down” to go out. As a member you will be able to see who is down to hangout when you are, toss ideas around for what to do or where to go, and finally see what everyone is up to in one place. See who wants to hangout, figure out what you want to do, and actually make things happen. Our mission is to create simple technology that helps friends get together in the real...

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