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Great Companies: How did you get your idea or concept for the business? Tyronne Devdros: I launched soap™ the digital transformation company in April 2020 amidst pursuing the Digital Business Leadership Program [DBLP] at Columbia Business School, NYC. Digital Transformation is about ‘New Thinking to build and implement a sustainable competitive Go to Market Strategy’ for a business amidst market forces. Its sole purpose is to create and deliver optimum solutions to address challenges that a business is currently facing as well as anticipate future challenges, especially in uncertain and turbulent economic times. Globally and in India, there are large and successful legacy companies in the field of Research, Data Analytics, Strategy, Technology and Transformation Solutions. Transformation has been a much talked about subject over the past decade or so. The Big Technology and Management Consulting Firms around the world have been designing solutions using Technology and Technological aided tools to help increase human and process efficiency, economize costs, and increase profitability for businesses to enable them deliver higher value to their stake holders and end users. soap [sum of all parts] ™ is a synthesis of the technique, experience, knowledge, and the meticulous pursuance of honing skills over decades in key domains of transformation namely, Research and Data Analytics, Marketing Communication, Strategy, and IOT & Technology, by its key team members. A business is built with different sources of Capital. (Not necessarily in this order). Any business must raise and create Intellectual, Financial, Human and Technological Capital. A Business also needs to build on its Social Capital. [SO.APT] ™ soap’s transformation process can be applied to any industry and business irrespective of its size or scale. [SO.APT] ™ the soap transformation process is a method to harness the value of all these sources of Capital and to be able to create and unleash a competitive advantage for the business to compete fairly in the marketplace. The soap transformation process also helps a business create ‘social relevance’ for itself in society. While the Big Technology & Consulting Firms focus on the Big-Ticket solutions for their clients, soap™ caters to entrepreneurs and businesses that would shy away from a strategic solution that recommends a technological revolution either in their business model, culture, processes, and/or organisation/ capital structure. soap™ the digital transformation company was built on this very idea. We strive to be a brand that helps a business deliver sustained value to its stake holders and end users thereby creating ‘social relevance’ for itself in the marketplace. Great Companies: What are the various Services provided by soap the digital transformation company? Tyronne Devdros: ‘A Brand is a Business. A Business is a Brand’. The [SO.APT]™ soap transformation process is a method of ‘Human Intelligence’ fuelled by technique,experience and AI powered Analytical tools that helps a business re-examine its vital stats, dispassionately and purely from the view of all its stakeholders and the overall ecosystem it operates in. Our key offerings are as follows: Situational Analysis: This function involves a Data Driven discovery method to evaluate and validate the challenge a business is facing in real time while mitigating the risk of losing. It also defines the Unique Quotient [UQ] of a business while creating a sustainable competitive advantage for the business to compete. Prescriptive Analytics: A Problem-solving framework to deliver optimal outcomes for a business to choose from and compete. Go to Market Strategy: Using a Discovery Driven Strategymethod of thinking to ‘Go to Market’ with the same product/ service or ‘Go to Market’ with a new product/ service, both to ultimately deliver sustained value. Great Companies: What makes soap the digital transformation company different from hundreds of other Strategy Consulting firms? Tyronne Devdros: We look at Technology as an enabler, wherever required as an impetus to our method of ‘Human Intelligence’. All transformation solutions do not necessarily have to be supported by a technological re-hash or advancement. ‘You DON’T have to turn the business on its head to get to your Goal’. Transformation as a discipline starts in the human mind. It does need an army of people, a complete make-over of processes or replacement of human capital or a big fat budget to get the job done. At soap [sum of all parts] ™ our focus is to work with ‘what’s on hand’ and the ‘all hands-on deck approach’ thereby extracting the optimum of current resources be it human, financial, and operational, using our method of ‘human intelligence’ without ‘draining the coffers’ of a business to achieve the goals set by the business. We break the challenge up into micro pieces, study it, test it and then scale. This method allows the business owners to, at an efficient cost, experiment, iterate and arrive at the most optimal outcome to operate and scale. soap [sum of all parts] ™ as an expression of a belief, a will, and a relentless drive to create, customize, collaborate, and convert a desirable outcome for a business, especially in undesirable business circumstances. We ask the right questions to lead us to the potentially correct solutions. We ‘Simplify Solutions’. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Tyronne Devdros: Having launched in April 2020, ‘The beginning of Dark Times ahead’ as I call it, as a start-up enterprise, our biggest challenge was to establish our credentials in a market amidst ‘dampened spirits’ in clients caused by the compounding effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Despite limited resources available to us to promote our services, we earned the trust of a few clients who worked with us over the past 18 months. Our focus over the next 24 months is build a spectrum of clientele across industries to create our ‘Body of Work’. The effects of COVID-19 Pandemic may have pulled us back momentarily in our pursuit to achieve our business goals for now, but it will certainly not hold us back in our relentless drive to achieve business excellence in time to come. Great Companies: How do you plan to grow in the future? What does 5 years down the line look like for soap the digital transformation company? Tyronne Devdros: At soap [sum of all parts] ™ we will continue to invest and focus on our method of ‘human intelligence’ as a key asset of our business offering. Training and Up-Skilling with the latest methods in Strategy and Technology will be our focus to deliver value to our clients. We will continue to develop tools in Strategy to sharpen our offering. We are also working on collaborations and are considering external funding to build scale to our operations. Great Companies: If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be? Tyronne Devdros: Millions of Good Ideas don’t see the light of the day for the lack of funds to support them. They remain unfulfilled dreams of an individual or a group of people who dared to dream but didn’t have the money to make them a reality’. While that statement might hold true in most entrepreneurial debut’s, I refused to believe in that statement. When I set out to be an entrepreneur, 18 months ago, after being trained and certified in Digital Transformation by Columbia Business School, here’s what I told myself … Articulate your Business Idea (Hypotheses) clearly and in simple terms. Test YOUR HYPOTHESES. Test It. Test It. Test It. and keep testing it! Don’t go by your Gut. Test your Hypotheses with prospective customers. RECORD THEIR FEEDBACK and ITERATE. You may not like what they say about your idea/ offering but if they must buy your idea in the future, you better get it RIGHT before YOU GO ALL IN! DON’T BORROW MONEY TO SUPPORT YOUR IDEA. BUILD YOUR IDEA WITH THE LITTLE THAT YOU HAVE. BUILD IT SMALL, TEST IT, GET IT RIGHT. Once you get it RIGHT, you will find the money to scale up. As an entrepreneur, develop the WISDOM to find the right idea, have the WILL & DETERMINATION to choose it and the COURAGE to make it endure through the toughest times. WebSite : https://www.soaptransformation.com/ Twitter : https://twitter.com/soapdigital Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/soaptransformation/

Great Companies: How did you get your idea or concept for the business? Bharatbhushan Nirmal: Have been into the Market Research Industry for almost 16+ years , so it was not so difficult to get the idea. The people (Freelancers) who were associated with me during my tenure in Market research were the people who encouraged me to take a plunge into becoming an entrepreneur, I personally had no courage to take this move concerning the budgetary and investment constraints. Great Companies: What are the various Services provided by ROSE Research and Promotions Bharatbhushan Nirmal: Our major chunk is into Field & Tab (Operations and Data Supply), almost 95%, this is the challenging part when we talk about a typical Market Research Project. Our Services Include: Qualitative Studies ( In-depth Interviews, Group Discussions ) and Quantitative Studies (Central Location Test, Face-to-Face Interviews, Opinion Poll, Product placements, Concept testing, Customer Satisfaction Studies, Employee Satisfaction Studies, Mystery Audits, Mystery Shopping, B2B, B2C, Industrial Studies) Great Companies: What makes ROSE Research and Promotions different from hundreds of other Market Research Firms? Bharatbhushan Nirmal: We are different because we don't over commit and accept our limitations and weaknesses. We talk very practically to our clients and don't give them last minute shocks. Most of the clients are not very interactive so at times we have to initiate the feedback sessions to keep improving our offerings and services. 80% of the clients want to keep it very simple and clean so we try to be straight to the point. Companies know how to do research but the most challenging task is how to manage people and that is where we are try to put our efforts. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Bharatbhushan Nirmal: The struggle is with the maintaining of the quality and rates of the services, lately this industry has started evolving and we can see lot of competition and clients are choosy when it comes to the pricing. Quality is secondary, if proper budgeting is not done we struggle to maintain the man-day rates and that impacts to a certain extent on the quality of service, so we have to continuously balance the quality and cost of the service. Great Companies: How do you plan to grow in the future? What does 5 years down the line look like for ROSE Research and Promotions? Bharatbhushan Nirmal: We are not focusing of growing number of clients ( that has to come naturally) but main focus is on giving good service and generating repeat business. Getting higher number of clients has a disadvantage when we are not able to give proper attention and also there will be a lot of distraction. So satisfied clients will help by spreading word of mouth publicity. 5 Years down the line we want to have a very stable business with at least a branch in all the Metro Cities in India with a secure job to all the employees. Great Companies: If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be? Bharatbhushan Nirmal: Keep your Clients and employees satisfied and happy and you will sustain. Website : https://www.rosemarketresearch.com/ Facebook_Bharatbhushan Nirmal - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004056696428 Facebook_ROSE Research & Promotions - https://www.facebook.com/ROSE-Market-Research-Promotions-192023365008781 Google_ROSE Market Research - https://g.page/r/CT4kDou7iD9uEAE Linkedin_Bharatbhushan Nirmal- https://www.linkedin.com/in/bharatbhushannirmal Linkedin_ROSE Research & Promotions - https://www.linkedin.com/company/rose-market-research-india

Great Companies: How did you get your idea or concept for the business? Lalith Dhanush: Throughout my school and college I was a very average student in academics. I used to feel very annoyed being in class because I used to never understand why we need to learn all this. It came to a point where I spent most of my time in extra-curricular activities, especially being on stage as I loved doing that. My extracurriculars grew so much that I won tons of competitions during my degree which boosted my morale. I was even named the President of my Student Council for the work I had put in. I applied for a couple of universities abroad to study masters in entrepreneurship because I felt working under someone was something I never want to do. Not just did I get placed in University of Limerick, Ireland, I also got a 25% scholarship. Best part about this was my marks had nothing to do with this scholarship, it was my extracurriculars, my skills that helped me bag it. In my final sem of Masters, my team and I got a chance to participate in an Entrepreneurial pitch contest hosted by CitiBank. We had to come up with a product or service that Solves a problem that exists in society. While brainstorming about different ideas it hit me that there is one problem all students face and complaints about back in India. The education system, how it doesn’t help us much because all we do is byheart concepts, throw it all out on our exam papers and then forget it as there is no practical application taught for most of the concepts. I was abroad on a scholarship only because I was clear that speaking on stage is what I really like and spent all the time in gathering various skills that can help me lead a successful life. It was this secret formula that became our business idea and we named our business More Than Textbook. A company that helps students find their true passion, upskill themselves and learn everything apart from the textbook that makes them successful. We won that contest along with another team. We got awarded 10,000 Euros for the contest while the other team got a chance to get incubated. At this time, it really hit me how powerful this idea is and how it can really change the future of India. Hence I took a one way back ticket to India, to start my own company called More Than Textbook to share the secret formula of career success with the youth of the country and revolutionize the education system. Great Companies: What are the various Services provided by More than textbook Lalith Dhanush: More Than Textbook offers Career Clarity workshops to students between 18 - 25 years old. It's a 6 step process to attain career clarity and have an unstoppable career. First is self awareness, to truly identify what a person is interested in, good at and really likes doing. Second is upskilling, to help students acquire Life skills such as communication, leadership, networking, etc. that will help them succeed irrespective of the career they choose. Third is Internships, to help students explore their interests, work, gain experience and truly understand if that’s the career they really want to pursue for the rest of their life. Fourth is community, a place where people come together for a specific purpose as it helps in building strong networks because in life your network is your net worth. Fifth is volunteering, it really helps shape one's character and instills them with the power of gratitude and humanity to have an infinite mindset that aids success. Lastly, its mentorship, to be with someone who is already living their dream and take guidance from them to assist their career. Great Companies: What makes More than textbook different from hundreds of other Education & Training Firms ? Lalith Dhanush: Our approach to learning is what makes us stand out from the rest. All our workshops are a mix of activities and learning because we believe learning is the highest when people are having fun. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Lalith Dhanush: Covid19 outbreak. As a company that started in 2018 we were really climbing up the ladder one-step at a time. By the end of 2019, our progress was on a high, we had a lot of projects offline where we had impacted 10000+ students yet with the covid outbreak all colleges were forced to cut off most of the additional workshops and just focus on academics. It was a big hit for our company which forced us to create online courses, online funnels etc which we are continuously working on till date and hopefully will get back to our peak soon. Great Companies: How do you plan to grow in the future? What does 5 years down the line look like for More Than Textbook? Lalith Dhanush: Our future plan is to tie-up with the top colleges in Bangalore in such a way that we become a part of the curriculum. We are launching my own show called The Lalith Dhanush Show where we will invite people from all career spheres to understand how they got there and make it big in their career. I have also authored my own book which will soon be released about how anybody can take their career from average to unstoppable. With all this we aim to impact at least 100000 students and help them gain career clarity to live an unstoppable career. Great Companies: If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be? Lalith Dhanush: Don’t take advice from anybody who isn’t living the dream that you want, not your friends, not your family and never your relatives. Engrave this in your head “He who has never seen the pinnacle of success can never guide you to be there, they will only hold you back”

Great Companies: How did you get your idea or concept for the business? Sagnik Ghosh: The idea of WorqHat mostly revolves around a problem that even I had faced. I was passionate about programming when I was about 14-15 years of age. Now, when I was in my 2nd Year of Computer Science Engineering, and I was completing some courses from an Online Platform, I realised that I came up with a lot of questions, and I wanted to contact someone, maybe even a senior, to help me with my doubts. Also, the cost of Education has been rising daily, so I wanted to build a platform where students could connect with mentors, educators, industrial professionals and even their peers, who can act as a support for the student throughout his University Journey. Great Companies: What are the various Services provided by WorqHat Sagnik Ghosh: WorqHat is an Online EdTech Marketplace that uses a Networked Approach to Shift Focus from Teaching to Learning and building a better-prepared workforce as per industry expectations, university students with better employability & better preparation for the future. We believe that it is easier to Learn a Subject when you Live, Work and Earn from it. We have released the platform for Early-Access Program, and it is available for you all to try it out. Through WorqHat, University Students can connect with Mentors, Educators, Industrial Professionals and even their peers from universities across the country, for clearing their doubts, getting academic guidance, and even they can host a community meetup, where people having the same interest can meet online and discuss their ideas. University Students can even get feedback on their college projects from industry professionals and other educators as well, and if an Industry likes the project then they can either purchase it or the student gets a chance to work with that industry on both a long and short term basis. We are assisting a student in University throughout his 4/5 year journey through constant guidance and mentoring by people who have walked on that path before. Great Companies: What makes WorqHat different from hundreds of other EdTech Firms? Sagnik Ghosh: There are approximately 993 universities and more than 50,656 colleges, and almost 80 million university students are pursuing multiple courses at any point in time in India. Most of the EdTech companies in the higher education sector are teaching through Pre-Recorded Video Lectures and coaching students to build more and more projects but they have very limited one-to-one doubt clearance/guidance & Mentoring session and students are unable to get feedback on what they are doing. We are building WorqHat as a platform only for the University Students & Fresh Graduates – A credible source of displaying their skills and knowledge as they need more exposure and better accountability of the skills. Now students don’t only learn while they are in University, but they now have a platform that can assist them in sponsoring their treats and coffees as well. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Sagnik Ghosh: So being a university student and a Start-up Founder at the same time has challenges of its own, and it’s like, people generally have one life that stresses them out, I have two of them. Sometimes, it is a challenge, balancing both University coursework and running the daily operations at WorqHat, but there’s a thrill in doing it as well. Great Companies: How do you plan to grow in the future? What do 5 years down the line look like for WorqHat? Sagnik Ghosh: As I mentioned before we are in the Early Access Program right now, and at WorqHat, we are taking it one day at a time right now. We look forward to making a mark each day, taking this organization a step forward. Five years down the line, we look forward to expanding across the whole of Asia, as one of the most prominent EdTech platforms, helping transform the lives of millions of students. We want to take WorqHat to a position where Students can share their WorqHat profile as a credible source of their skills and knowledge. Great Companies:If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting, what would it be? Sagnik Ghosh: The one piece of advice that I would give is that being a student Founder is a tough journey, and I would say that Start the business for all the right reasons. Some of the right reasons being - You feel for the cause, you feel for the topic, you are passionate about it. Money is not the right reason. The presumed “Cool” quotient attached to being an entrepreneur is not the right reason. Try being the change you wish to see in this world. Build something that can bring about a change in the lives of people.

Great Companies: How did you get your idea or concept for the business? Namrata Dhasmana: Ideation started during pandemic when I envisaged wealth creation is so important to give a boost to our economy. In one of my interview of Global Voice of India I mentioned about deflation vs Inflation and that was the time when I decided to have my entire knowledge and experience put in the practice for larger impact to improve the economy in my capacity. Moreover, I am in my second innings of career and As a Coach I see people losing focus in their lives, organisations having narrowed outlook towards business and people. As a certified Business strategist and People Coach- I took it as a responsibility to formalise my credentials and give an impact to the society economic growth and there the “Evolution Services” was conceptualised. “Evolution” comes with a philosophy of creating excellence in development of people and business. In Evolution we bring uniqueness in our services and apply differential strategy with our clients to create competitive advantage in industry. After having 19 years of my diversified industry experience as a Leader, I decided to take on another responsibility and as a CEO my vision goes that every person is important and has the opportunity and obligation to make a difference. My team is creative and sets the pace. Great Companies: What are the various Services provided by Evolution Services Namrata Dhasmana: Thanks for asking this. Evolution is in alignment with the rapid changing demand and supply of the industry. As an experienced professional I have seen our business model follows having the experts and providing best of the services to our customers. Although we have been player in the industry, yet formalised in our entrepreneurial journey to give a larger impact. After having witness a real VUCA and future of work, we have broadly designed our following services -Coaching Leadership Team Coaching One o One -Consulting Business Consulting -Corporate Trainings and Development. Our every service comes with an evolutionary development of people and business with a blend of systems thinking and design thinking and specific tools and business models. Great Companies: What makes Evolution Services different from hundreds of other Training & Consulting firms? Namrata Dhasmana: Our Team creates difference. We are all in Together. We have Thought Leadership of senior Veterans of industry. In addition to this as CEO my vision goes with differential and focussed strategy to create benchmarks in the industry for my clients and customers. We understand when our organisations are data driven we come with a sweet spot between People, business and technology as one of the best practices. Being a Strategist from IIM L and Certified Coach, our Evolution Services joins this industry with a vision of blending the contemporary business models with Spiritual Quotient to give our customers a Purpose driven business and life. The aspect of SQ (Spiritual Quotient) also covers the governance and compliance of our customers in business consulting. Moreover, Evolution caries her brand of Customer Centricity as it integrates with other core values. Evolution has her own unique philosophy of development by evolving and growing step by step. We give our customers Purpose in their Lives, their business and People development and that’s where Evolution comes with her unique principle of creating difference in the industry. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Namrata Dhasmana: Yes! I also have my challenges of putting all ideas in one place to provide some unique and best services to my clients, those long nights of working on laptop to design business model. To begin forming a team, website etc. I am a design thinking practitioner, and that’s why I did not take much time to do empathy mapping with customers and get aligned with them and then was in the industry for so long and have been an active contributor. As a coach with close to 280 hours of coaching, I have heard and coached people of various cultures, so I have an understanding of the industry and customers. Then, I was thankful to my mentor for being there who helped me in getting my ideation in the Execution phase. Great Companies: How do you plan to grow in the future? What does 5 years down the line look like for Evolution Services? Namrata Dhasmana: Smiles. I have my vision of growing and diversifying in other fields of business. As of now we are focussed on creating long term associations with our clients and taking their business to next level in the industry. Our customers and team will make us rise. Together we will go far. Five years down the line Evolution will create jobs in the economy and will have her name endorsed as one of the most Liked company by their Clients and Customers. I will take a Pause on this right now.😊 Great Companies: If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be? Namrata Dhasmana: Just pick up a pen and a diary and start conceptualising your idea. Always remember what you are giving to your clients when you are thinking to start your entrepreneurial journey. Rest Trust the Universe. Keep your finances in order and have clarity in what business models are you coming up with.

Great Companies: How did you get your idea or concept for the business? Amarnath Sankar : Well, the original idea we got from our college days. We were literally dreaming of doing and floating in the domain of visual storytelling and visual media, which in fact resulted in the formation of CAT Productions as a media production company by the year 2013. Great Companies: What are the various Services provided by CAT Productions [ C A Technology Entertainments Pvt Ltd] Amarnath Sankar : CAT Productions is primarily focused on creating B2B video content. Corporate films, advertising films, product movies, campaigning movies, etc. are our key products that would help organisations to position themselves the way they wanted in the market and which would help them grow their business with the kind of strategic storytelling we are bringing with our video content. Great Companies: What makes CAT Productions [ C A Technology Entertainments Pvt Ltd] different from hundreds of other Video Production firms? Amarnath Sankar : #CATQuality is the benchmark that differentiates us from the other production houses in this country and the world. CAT Quality is the quality of delivery we have for our video content in terms of its quality of visual, quality of storytelling, quality of execution, and it is a quality that is reflected in all aspects of our organisation. The personalised experience the clients receive from our end, to the harmonious relationship we keep with our vendors, and so on and so forth. The total paradigm of quality reflects upon all aspects of our enterprise is what differentiates us from the rest of our competitors. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Amarnath Sankar : I would say every day we have struggles and we face challenges in our business. That's where the entrepreneurial spirits come in, because entrepreneurs always take leverage of challenges and struggles and convert them to opportunities and hope. So, personally, we love facing challenges and resolving them, which would enhance our potential as entrepreneurs as well as category leader in business. Great Companies: How do you plan to grow in the future? What does 5 years down the line look like for CAT Productions [ C A Technology Entertainments Pvt Ltd]? Amarnath Sankar : In 5 years, of course, we are looking forward to expanding our presence in more markets, looking forward to serving over 500 corporate customers (now we have 100+ customers, so we are looking forward to having 500 corporate customers in our clientele) and looking forward to exploring the possibilities of emerging content production styles, including virtual reality content production. Great Companies: If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be? Amarnath Sankar : The single piece of advice for someone kickstarting his/her journey as an entrepreneur is this, that person should start it out of the passion that person carries in his/her heart, because I truly believe that the passion in our domain and the willingness to upgrade ourselves is what makes someone a successful entrepreneur.

Great Companies: How did you get your idea or concept for the business? Meena C Shah: Many years ago, as I taught my son, I would look up American websites which had downloadable worksheets for children. Of course, this was not entirely according to the Indian syllabus. Thus, I decided to create this for our children so that it helps them with their school work. Thus, parents can download these worksheets from the Starchild Marketplace. I have opened this avenue for educators who too want to sell their educational products. My son would also play a lot of educational games on his computer which we had got on floppies from relatives abroad. He would be very engrossed in doing his Grammar, Maths, Science and even some Geography. He loved studying this way. His concepts and foundation became very strong due to this. Thus, with the advent of the digital world, I decided that we must give our children this advantage and went on to create Starchild’s Mission Play2Learn. Great Companies: What are the various Services provided by Starchild Education and Learning Meena C Shah: Starchild offers - Mission Play2Learn – an academic quizzing platform where children can solve interactive quizzes and worksheets while being engaged in a game. As they solve, these worksheets are automatically graded, they are awarded marks too. This game has 10 levels. As the child crosses each level, he is rewarded with medals and titles. This motivates the child to do more. We also have the Starchild Leaderboard which shows the top 10 students. The Starchild Marketplace – where downloadable worksheets are available. Other educators can also sell their educational products there. Signature Online Courses for school students. Great Companies: What makes Starchild Education and Learning different from hundreds of other Education firms? Meena C Shah: Starchild emphasizes on building a strong foundation for students from Std. 1 to 7. As we are all aware, practice is what makes perfect. Whether it is riding a bicycle or swimming, as children we practiced continuously every day. Then we could drive a car, ride a bicycle or swim with great confidence and the learning is for forever, for life. It is never forgotten. The same goes for learning. Revision and practice are the very essence of a strong academic base. We also believe that when learning is fun, it is forever. Motivation and creating an interest in learning is fundamental to Starchild. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Meena C Shah: In the initial stages, I found it difficult to understand how a business would work. As an educator, my responsibilities were different but here I found more responsibilities and much to learn. It has been a great journey of learning as I learnt to manage social media, marketing and whatnot which are required to run a successful online business. Great Companies: How do you plan to grow in the future? What does 5 years down the line look like for Starchild Education and Learning? Meena C Shah: Starchild will continue to add to its ever growing basket of education products. We are moving towards becoming an academic quizzing platform. We also are working towards creating online courses ourselves as well as in collaboration with others. We see Starchild becoming a household name among students and parents. Great Companies: If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be? Meena C. Shah: Determination and dedication are the keys to success. Never give up whatever your difficulties. There are always solutions to problems. They can all be overcome. Keep learning and keep growing.

Great Companies: How did you get your idea or concept for the business? Tejas Wani : We had a Passion for traveling. Initially we Started the Business as a Part time / Side income during College time. But later, it was difficult to leave this passion aside and to opt for a job; Thus We continued with the same :) Great Companies: What are the various Services provided by Around the Globe Holidays Tejas Wani : Domestic Holiday Packages in India, Family/Honeymoon etc International Holiday Packages Group tours Student tours Industrial Visits Corporate tours Great Companies: What makes Around the Globe Holidays different from hundreds of other Tours & Travels Firms? Tejas Wani : Better Service. Reasonable prices. Locations of hotels. Most importantly, we make sure that guests' money would be worth the cost they're paying. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Tejas Wani : Nothing as such.People who want good services they don't fall for low cost hoax which most of online agencies create. Great Companies: How do you plan to grow in the future? What does 5 years down the line look like for Around the Globe Holidays? Tejas Wani : We're doing well in tourism.. Couple of goals though To improve tourism in Rural India and create opportunities for people out there... And second is to come with the hotel chain of our own. Great Companies: If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be? Tejas Wani : Never compromise on service.. It's okay to lose a client for once if the client is looking for cheap services.. They do come back to you next time..but if you compromise on the services against low cost, you'll lose the client forever.

Great Companies: How did you get your idea or concept for the business? Arvind Chawla : Once I actually saw a patient where he lost his life due to non availability and unorganized service of Ambulance and this incident stuck into my mind and I decided to transform this unorganized and pathetic service industry into a well organized industry so that precious lives can be saved . I did a survey on grass root level and spoke with people, taking their views and asking the difficulties they face while they have to transfer the patient during emergency and post a thorough survey I decided that I had to have start with Medical Services Industry. Medical Standards in India were lacking so behind from the outer world that nobody was bothered to even talk about it and do something Standards of Hospitals were definitely on raising side but to get to the Hospital in Critical times was the challenge which was costing precious lives. We chose to Improve Transportation Sector in Medical sector. Great Companies: What are the various Services provided by ME007 Hospitality Pvt Ltd ? Arvind Chawla : We @ ME007 are providing a complete medical ( Emergency & Non-Emergency) services from last 4 years which includes Patients transport from Bed to Hospital or vice versa taking care of the critical aspects like time, condition , intense care etc. We have set up our Dispensaries @ ongoing Mega Projects Like HPCL Refinery Barmer & ReNew at Bikaner where we take care of every medical need of staff on site with the help of our elite team of medical officers . We are into Health & wellness program for Corporates where we conduct regular health checkups , taking care of their physical & mental health by conducting yoga , meditation etc. to help prevent conical disorders which are very common nowadays due to work related stress. We are also providing Medical insurance for corporate and retails . Great Companies: What were the challenges you faced in the starting days? Arvind Chawla : As they say – Starting of something new is always the hardest. I struggled so hard initially , got just Rs.6000 in my hands , I rented a place to live and managed food for 3 months on it . Secondly I was so surprised see how unorganized this sector was and Ambulance Owners and Drivers were implying their monopoly on behalf of their worst period Vehicles and cheapest equipment’s.. Sometimes we even had to pay driver to tuck their shirts in. Great Companies: What makes ME007 Hospitality Pvt Ltd different from hundreds of other Medical Services providers? Arvind Chawla : After doing our research and finding so many loopholes and scopes we made a list of set of standards for ourselves and for our vendor. We raise the standards of the process so high that these created barriers.It is our strict policy to reject the vehicle if it is more than 3 years old. We always take care of the patient’s medical needs on the way and keep a proper track from picking up the patient to dropping him . Entry and Exit Barriers are so high that is difficult both ways – entering into our standards and exiting them as well. Right now we have a fleets of 2500 Ambulances across country which also Includes Air Ambulance and train Ambulances as well, and this was all possible due to our Vendor Selection Criteria , no random vendor can be on boarded without passing and fulfilling our criteria’s. From background check to physical condition of ambulances to the use of High end equipment’s etc. etc. Great Companies: How do u plan to grow in the future and how 5 years down the line looks like to you? Arvind Chawla : We have very high end dreams about growing and that too across the Globe , so we are in transit to become an MNC which has its services to offer with same standards all over the world. We are taking every bit of help by technical interventions and bring these services integrated in an app, its been developed and we are reaching out in the market for the feedbacks and suggestions , what else could be brought to the platform and so on. We have our eyes on opting 108 Services in different states if INDIA , from there we can continue making differences in medical field and showing the society that every live counts and matters. Great Companies: If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be? Arvind Chawla : Let me just call it a Bible piece of advice, when you dream about something , don’t stop chasing it , and the time is crucial which is of 36 Months. So just hold onto it to 36 months at least and put your more than 100% honest efforts . That dream or project must be your only and only priority . You need to clear your head & thoughts in order to do so Website : https://emsplus.co.in/ Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/care.emsplus Twitter : https://twitter.com/ems_plus Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/company/emsplus-india/ Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/emsplus007/

Great Companies: How did you get your idea or concept for the business? Dr Meghna Mevawala: As a child I was absolutely impressed with doctors and hospitals; unfortunately I suffered a major health setback in my teenage years which undid my plans of medical studies and all my continued education plans abroad. My mind was teaching me something new: I was knocked down hard. But I was given another chance. An admin job in a holistic form gave me a fresh opportunity where I met a Nutritionist. She intrigued me so much when she actively listened to people's problems and provided custom made solutions, which till today has been my USP. My alternate systems of medicinal naturopathy doctorate further makes me one amongst the very few who approaches dietetics and nutrition in a methodical tailormade clinical approach and the fellowship in functional medicine greatly helps as does my 5 year stint in hospitals as absolute on the job experience. Great Companies: What are the various Services provided by Vrieves Dr Meghna Mevawala: Broadly classifying it into 1. Sports Nutrition 2. Corporate Wellness 3. Hormonal Balance 4. Lifestyle Management 5. Weight Management 6. Ailments 7. Wellness for Children Clinical & Sports Nutritionist Helping Humans tackle obesity effectively Empowering Sports Enthusiasts with Peak Fitness Working alongside Corporates to achieve maximum productivity Corporate Wellness : Our mission is to have our clients improve holistically & scientifically the way they look and feel about themselves.We firmly believe lifestyle modification is the key to achieving good health for life. Eating well for us at Vrieves - The Nutrition Clinic simply means making the right food choices without deprivation. Nutritionally inspire each client to pursue all their dreams and goals with better mental health, stable emotions and more happiness quotients. Great Companies: What makes Vrieves different from hundreds of other Nutrition Clinics? Dr Meghna Mevawala: I truly believe that your everyday food & lifestyle choices can be the most powerful things you do for your health. I’ve built a career combining my two great loves: nutrition and active listening. Let me also add that I am Qualified! Life Sciences Degree (Mumbai) Diploma in Alternative Medicine (Kolkata) Diploma in Nutrition & Dietetics (Mumbai) Medicinal Naturopathy Doctorate from Trinity International (UK & Caicos Islands) Certified In Fitness Nutrition (ISSA) Fellowship in BHRT and Functional Medicine Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Dr Meghna Mevawala: Managing people's self beliefs, working in a system where a lot of people wish to look at life with shortcuts, and every time i travel outside of my house or my clinic hope and wish that fellow humans would meet with wellness professionals and not always experiment well-being on their own. Their struggles and challenges are right royally my own. Great Companies: How do you plan to grow in the future? What does 5 years down the line look like for Vrieves? Dr Meghna Mevawala: Life isn't about your age. Life is about living. Let me explain that with two stories A senior citizen aged 65, with uncontrolled sugar levels met with me and thoroughly understood her food habits and timings. 90 days, with regular online counselling sessions and education on diabetes management brought it down from a HbA1c(3 month sugar reading) of 10.6 and blood glucose levels of 256mg to the good controlled normal of 5.7 and 117 respectively. Active Listening at Vrieves is another phenomenal USP which makes positive health changes a breeze. A young lady of 22, struggled with obesity because of her PCOS issues, we jointly worked with an endocrinologist and helped the lady shed 48 Pounds and also helped correct her PCOS post her evaluation and metabolic panel test. Clinical Nutrition is a specialty at the centre. I shall look forward to hand-holding 1,00,000 individuals to live their lives fully through one on one customised sessions, group sessions, medium to large corporate events and as a keynote speaker is the 5 year way forward plan. Great Companies: If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be? Dr Meghna Mevawala: Actively listen, implement good intentions into easily actionable plans, provide milestones to re-start living right, help clients understand eating the right foods at the right timings and the right amount of daily exercise which shall do wonders to all those who approach them.

Great Companies: How did you get your idea or concept for the business? Rohit Raj: As a young kid, I have always been inquisitive about codings, electronics and robotics related stuffs. So, started my journey when I was 15 years old by working on Arduino & Raspberry Pi based projects. By passing years I made some projects like Obstacle detection Robo Car, Floor cleaning robo car, Drones and much more. I’m just crazy about drones and it’s the one of my all time loved projects. Being good knowledge about the different programming languages, later on I started learning, experimenting and working on Ubuntu and Kali Linux based platforms. Also have been the member at various Google Developer Groups like Mumbai, Delhi, Jalandhar). Later on I decided to start my own venture and then I started my venture with named ' Techsics' which is a tech solution provider company. But Techsics is not my first venture , it's my second venture. Before 'Techsics' I started with online training programme which was basically for classes 1 to 5 students. But after running for few months due to some reason we decided to shut down our online training programme. And later on I continued with 'Techsics'. I had also been the youngest Indian delegate as well as Former Campus ambassador at IMUN(International Model United Nations) 2020. In the second wave of Covid-19, we have also launched two applications which are health based and other one was Covid-19 based. Great Companies: What are the various services provided by Techsics Rohit Raj: We offers services on app development, drones development, website development, home automation, workshops, Graphic designing, VFX and more product based services to come. We conduct workshops in various institute, colleges and schools on robotics and future technology. Great Companies: What makes Techsics different from hundreds of other digital services companies? Rohit Raj: Techsics is basically a tech solution provider company which deals with drones, web and robotics related stuffs. So anyone with their skills and knowledge can work with Techsics. For example; if I found even a student of any class having amazing level of knowledge and creative skills I will offer him a job rather than asking him to show his degree and qualifications. Because age doesn't matter for doing any work or learn something new. The only thing which works is your passion towards your work. So I think this thing makes 'Techsics' a different company as compare to other companies. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Rohit Raj: Basically I'm an 18 years old teenager. So when I was at initial stage of my startup, people wouldn't consider my ideas & opinions, owning to my young age. They always used to tell me that you are very young and you don't have knowledge about business and you can't do it , you don't have any ability and talent and etc. etc. Great Companies: How do you plan to grow in the future? What does 5 years down the line look like for Techsics? Rohit Raj: At recent, we are providing service based tech solutions on drones, workshops and robotics related stuffs. We are working on some product based gadgets and in upcoming future we will launching our product based projects in the market which will be so beneficiary for digital world people and upcoming generation. Great Companies: If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be? Rohit Raj: According to me, if you really want to do something in life and wanted to reach at your dream goals then always keep focus and believe on you and your ideas, passionate about your work, be productive, keep patience, work smarter than harder and reach to your destination.

Great Companies: How did you get your idea or concept for the business? Nurul Islam Choudhury (NIC): Founded SamsuPro because I always wanted to be an entrepreneur, but the platform HoppingShopping has a story and let me tell you that. As an Indian I have noticed that we are using more ‘Made In China’ (Chinese) products than ‘Made In India’ products. Our government (GOI) is taking many initiatives to promote and encourage to manufacture products locally, under ‘Make In India’ and ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ in relation to economic vision and economic development in the country. Some of the Indian manufacturers are facing multiple challenges that includes lack of funds, low profit, poor infrastructure, difficult to survive when competing with foreign products. Overall as Indian we are not working hard to retain our culture, we are more attracted to the foreign culture and we are adopting them very fast instead of learning our culture in dept and presenting them in a modern form. At HoppingShopping we plan to empower Indian manufacturers and sellers with an Omni-channel market place to sell their products and through our actions we will re-initiate our lost culture as we do business. Great Companies: What are the various Services provided by Samsu Pro Consulting Solutions Pvt Ltd Nurul Islam Choudhury: At SamsuPro we are in process of developing multiple applications and platform for the Indian market, which we will reveal at the right time. But at present we are focusing for the newly launched market place. HoppingShopping is an online marketplace for buying and selling made in India products. We are promoting Indian manufacturers running small scale businesses so that they can sell their products to a larger customer base across pan Indian. This will help manufacturers to increase their sale and the customers will be able to buy authentic products from different Indian states/region without travelling. We are running a consumer feedback system, which will help us to improve the quality of the product. We are working towards to make shopping experience better for our customers, hence we are controlling end to end experience. Great Companies: What makes Samsu Pro Consulting Solutions Pvt Ltd different from hundreds of other eCommerce Platforms? Nurul Islam Choudhury: Our motto is to be Alibaba in India, so that we can empower Indian manufacturers and sellers (Selling made in India products) thus we can contribute to the growth of Indian economy and India. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Nurul Islam Choudhury: At present the biggest challenge is trust factor, we are working hard to gain and retain the trust for both business partners (Sellers) and customers. Until a person don’t trust us, they will not do business with us. Great Companies: How do you plan to grow in the future? What does 5 years down the line look like for Samsu Pro Consulting Solutions Pvt Ltd? Nurul Islam Choudhury: Five years down the line we want to see Hopping-shopping among the known ecommerce brands, selling millions of products per month and contributing a little in making India USD 5 Trillion economy. Great Companies: If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be? Nurul Islam Choudhury: Every entrepreneur has different stories because they write their own story. Now it’s time for you to write your own story, be calm, be focused, be collaborative and take quick action.