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Great Companies: How did you get your idea or concept for the business? Megha Misra : vLearnLive is a platform connecting both learners and educators; on one hand it is solving for the learners’ problems and challenges and on the other end, it is creating opportunities for educators across the globe to associate with the platform. For educators, there are no joining fees and enough flexibility is provided to choose the time-slots for teaching. This empowers the educators especially women to earn respectfully while working from home. For learners, the vLearnLive team endeavours to bring the best in education for all kids irrespective of their location. Whether the student is based out of metro, non-metro, rural India or in any other part of the world, the platform provides a perfect base for students to ace their skill sets by imbibing knowledge and not falling into the trap of rote learning. The educators use models, stories, relatable examples to explain concepts to the students that improves their grasping power. By doing continuous assessment, it is ensured that the kid’s performance improves with time. vLearnLive started its commercial operations in May 2017. At that time, the students or learners faced a plethora of challenges. For any additional coaching or learning needs, the child was largely dependent on private tuitions that had restricted hours of learning. There was no option to choose an educator from other parts of the country. The fees were non- negotiable and did not offer customized learning options.Every kid is unique and has different learning needs, so vLearnLive came into existence to solve the varied learners’ problems. Currently, the organization caters not only to the needs of the Indian students but also to the requirements of international students residing in the USA, UK, Kenya, GCC, Canada, and Switzerland. Great Companies: What are the various Services provided by vLearnLive Megha Misra : vLearnLive provides all kinds of learning support to kids whether it is curriculum-based or extracurricular activities. At vLearnLive, we are making life easier and learning accessible for all by catering to the requirements of school-going kids not only in metros but also in smaller towns and cities. The learning support is available for all kinds of board exams, all subjects, all Indian and foreign languages.The platform meets all kinds of learning requirements of students whether it is curriculum based learning, skill-based learning, hobby courses or learning national and international languages . So, whether a child wants to learn guitar, Vedic maths, dot mandala, science, maths , languages, different painting techniques, Rubik’s cube or scratch programming-it’s all there on the platform Great Companies: What makes vLearnLive different from hundreds of other EduTech Firms? Megha Misra : At vLearnLive, we offer a lot of benefits to students that are not available on any other learning platform. A few of the platform benefits are enumerated herewith: -Customised learning option for learners for State Boards /ICSE /CBSE / IGCSE or IB Board and for any learner specific requirement. -Option to learn from educators chosen by the students. -‘Topic-based’ learning facility, which is a one-of-a-kind feature in this industry. -Option to discuss the cost directly with the educator. -Choice of fixing the learning schedule with the educator. -‘Pay-as-you-go’ model of payment; no need to pay for the entire year or the entire session -Learner given the convenience of learning in the language of his/her choice. -Learners have a variety of options to choose from - can select from school based courses to language courses to hobby classes to skill development courses and more. Learner can place a request for his/her specific requirements and the educator reaches out to the learner directly via the platform interface.This kind of flexibility is not available on any other edtech platform in India. Apart from the above advantages, the biggest benefit is that the platform has excellent quality of educators registered on the platform.The icing on the cake is that these educators are experienced in teaching school curriculum. They identify the gaps and problem areas of the students and accordingly inspire and guide them to perform better in both curriculum based learning and extra-curricular activities.At vLearnLive, it is ensured that regular assessment and feedback is provided to the learner so that they can improve their grades and performance at school. Not only this, but we also run programs for the under-privileged kids as part of our Rural Education upliftment Program as we strongly believe that both education and skill enhancement options should be available to one and all. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Megha Misra : Launching this new concept was not something that was built overnight. Many challenges came in the way. Back in 2017, there was no acceptance for online learning. So, building trust, confidence, and acceptability towards online learning and teaching amongst the learners and the educators was an arduous task. Moreover, external vendors providing an online interface were exorbitantly priced. That is why vLearnLive built the teaching tool grounds up so that the educator can teach the learner online ,seamlessly, on the platform itself. “Herein, the learner can also share notes, assignments with the educator. As the pandemic struck the world, acceptance towards online learning has greatly increased and many players have jumped in the education sector. So, the most challenging phase is now! The good news is that we are growing continuously at a phenomenal rate and that is motivating us to continue the good work” Great Companies: How do you plan to grow in the future? What does 5 years down the line look like for vLearnLive? Megha Misra : The objective is to be the largest platform for all learning needs of the child cutting through all national and international geographies. If a child needs any kind of learning support whether it is related to school-based curriculum or non-curriculum based learning, vLearnLive aims to be the one-stop solution for all these learning needs. We are in a very exciting yet challenging phase of growth right now. There are many companies in the edutech space vying for customer attention wooing them with attractive discounts and offers. However, it is the golden period for edtech industry and with the value that vLearnLive brings in the lives of the learners, we surely are on the right track of growth. We are impacting the lives of students living in smaller towns and adding to their skills so that they have avenues to earn respectfully. We are also providing a platform to educators especially women to earn from the comfort of their home, thereby empowering them to earn manifolds by leaverging their skills. Great Companies: If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be? Megha Misra : Network, network and network- this is my single piece of advise to someone just starting out. By building the right network, one gets to learn new things happening across industries. It not only builds trust with other people but also skill sets that are needed to evolve continuously. This helps to attract the right set of people be it co-founders, team members, investors that helps to scale the business much faster!

Great Companies: How did you get your idea or concept for the business? Dr. Nitin Mittal: Twenty plus years of travel trade with some of the biggest names and another decade with the start-ups, I wanted to provide a platform which can be equally sensitive to large corporate clients to SMEs customer base, supporting their most frequented business destinations but bringing expertise in emerging geographies like, Egypt, Cambodia, Philippines, Saudi Arabia to Africa as latter not focussed by other major players, due to their volatile currencies, lack of branded properties and unreliable partners. However there were substantial queries for these locations since such countries are seeing major technological upgrades and no one to cater to them. We decided to concentrate on solving this problem and support them. Great Companies: What are the various Services provided by Hotel N Apartment Dr. Nitin Mittal: We provide personalised solutions for your employees business accommodation requirements, giving them best value of money, with maximum comfort - where each requirement is reviewed, options are well researched and finally giving them right solutions to choose ! In business especially, time is money and we brought a consultative approach against cut and paste solutions, as there are plenty in the era of Online Travel Agencies. From Hotels to Serviced Apartments to Serviced residences, for all your short term accommodation to project related stays, Hotel N Apartment caters to all your temporary business accommodation requirements. Great Companies: What makes Hotel N Apartment different from hundreds of other similar service providers? Dr. Nitin Mittal: We are in competition with NO ONE and have no desire to play the game of being better with anyone. We are simply trying to be better than the company we were yesterday. Keeping a motto of, We don't have to be smarter than others, we have to be more consistent in providing our services than the rest ! With regards to competition, I strongly believed in Gandhi's quote, "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then fight with you and finally respect you!" We are lucky to have reached phase 3 of the proverb, if not last ! Major differentiator is the personalized and analytical approach to each corporate client, where a dedicated customer service manager is assigned to respective accounts. In today's world where a pool of resources is working on multiple requirements, with no clue of specific ask for a client, this is a refreshing change where we put our customer and their preferences first and suggest options / solution basis their group's cumulative requirements and interest. We provide measurable savings even when compared to ruthless online rates, however the focus is to handhold the end user who is looking for a comforting stay environment especially when working in a foreign location, away from the family. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Dr. Nitin Mittal: Turning entrepreneur at the peak of your corporate career brings challenges in terms of anxiety and financial constraints. Also, being a bootstrapped company, I tried investing in this dream, by putting personal assets on mortgage and gradually funded by banks, although non collateral business loans came at a very high rate of interest however they were required since ours is a very capital intensive business model. We had to make a fine balance between growth, expansion and available resources. Great Companies: How do you plan to grow in the future? What does 5 years down the line look like for Hotel N Apartment? Dr. Nitin Mittal: We want to bring artificial intelligence and other technological advancement, at our mid office level, so we can understand the trends of future requirement basis mining the available data. Also technology to be deployed to understand the demand and supply dynamics, which would help in identifying the available inventories and negotiating them better, to bring cost advantage to our clients. We would also like to have offices in all the continents, giving clients advantages of local invoicing, saving them the cost of currency conversion and cross border transfer charges. Great Companies: If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be? Dr. Nitin Mittal: A mixture of a few pieces of advice. Anything is possible if you believe in it and have a passion to bring it to a logical conclusion. Always be committed and focussed. It is fine to try and fail, but never fail to try. You will never lose – Either U win or U learn ! Talent will get you in the door, but character will keep you in the room. Nothing will work, unless you Do! Website : https://hotelnapartment.com/

Great Companies: How did you get your idea or concept for the business? Kirti Mutreja: The inception of Virtuoso was more of an emotional decision turned into a practical solution. During my early days of career where I had to give up on my academia in medicine to pursue a job due to some personal challenges, I faced 25 rejections. The feedback being that I could speak well but didn’t have the confidence to work. I worked on myself and then after 30 days of rigorous practice finally climbed the first ladder to my success, got my first job with the same firm that rejected me previously. This inculcated the belief that you can influence the outcome by working towards it. Training indeed works! That’s where I promised myself that I will build a career by nurturing young minds and shaping them into the ardent professionals of tomorrow. I will let people learn from my failures and not just from my success alone. My vision is to make people see their success through my eyes. Great Companies: What are the various Services provided by Virtuoso Learning Solutions? Kirti Mutreja: We are a learning organization with behavioural training interventions being our forte. Virtuoso Learning Solutions looks forward to be the catalyst of change—for our partners, our populace, and the society consequently. We join hands with clients from the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors in all regions to identify their Highest-value opportunities, address their most critical challenges, and transform their enterprises by becoming the one stop solution for all their training needs. This ensures that our clients accomplish sustainable competitive advantage by building adept committed workforce and secure enduring outputs. We’ve also started extending our services to various colleges and schools so that we instil the right behaviour and strengthen the roots Great Companies: What makes Virtuoso Learning Solutions different from hundreds of other Learning & Development Firms? Kirti Mutreja: Our research based content, learning agility, and our passion for transforming lives is what makes Virtuoso different. We focus on the how part of the training rather than the what of it. So we work with various concepts & theories and churn them in applicable workable models/techniques where participants can directly apply the learning to better their lives and consequently contribute to the growth of their organization. We begin before we begin and end after it ends. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Kirti Mutreja: It’s been a journey. You grow with every new challenge that you face. Every person has his/her hits and misses. Am sure we are no exception. After my last stint at JPMorgan and working as a freelancer for about 4 years, it became challenging to acquire the first client ethically as a company. We took almost 6 months to convince someone to have faith in our abilities. One of the challenges was branding ourselves as an organization rather than an entity. There were a lot of times when I had to give up on the temptation of working in collaboration with other training companies to earn my bread and butter and believe in my newly laid turf. Great Companies: How do you plan to grow in the future? What does 5 years down the line look like for Virtuoso Learning Solutions? Kirti Mutreja: We currently have our presence Pan India and middle - east to some extent. We would like to test the international waters too. One of the goals is to venture into the arena of employability skills as well where we can create employment opportunities at the bottom of the pyramid too. We plan to work on the train & get hired model. Great Companies: If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be? Kirti Mutreja: To be successful and reach new realms develop the ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification. Learn to embrace the pain of today for the pleasure of tomorrow. We all fall, we all will face setbacks at some point in time. The bet is how soon you get up, gather yourself and move on from being a sore warrior to a soaring eagle. Website : http://virtuososolutions.co.in/

Great Companies: How did you get your idea or concept for the business? Sarika Gulati Gupta: My journey in the Video content creator segment, all started when I got married to a family of filmmakers & media professionals. Having worked with corporates at senior management positions ,I observed that every single day there was a need of Video content but it was too hard to find the right Video Production Agency. Agencies were too expensive or Quality was compromised when video was created by freelancers, thus there was huge opportunity for quality video content. That’s how Reel on Social was founded to meet this market gap. Our business is bridging the gap between demand & available resources to offer quality video services. Great Companies: What are the various Services provided by Reel on Social Sarika Gulati Gupta: AD Films/TVC’s, corporate films, training videos. We generate video variations using multitude story formats. Our portfolio includes long story formats such as corporate video and documentaries to ad films as short as 10 seconds. We also produce product videos, digital campaign films and training videos. At Reel on Social, we focus on retaining a client with solutions, which are unique, cost effective and curated creatively to meet the target. Thus, we offer end-to-end solutions from ideation to a final film. Our list of clients varies from MNC’s to SME’s. We are successful in creating multiple communities on social platforms with an audience of 1.5 lakh plus. Great Companies: What makes Reel on Social different from hundreds of other similar service providers ? Sarika Gulati Gupta: Quality content in affordable pricing is mantra to beat competition. Our expertise of producing high-end solutions in cost-effective manner helps our customer to drive content strategy for social media/TV for their product/services, hence making brand communication /selling/reach easy for them. Backbone of our company is Industry experts who have experience of working with brands & broadcast television. Our concept driven solution approach helps in providing customized/unique content to our customers. We have edge over competition with following offerings : End-to end solutions High end video production In house production facilities Experience of media veterans Timely & Cost effective approach Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Sarika Gulati Gupta: Hiring the right talent is always critical for us and we face challenges in this area. Great Companies: How do you plan to grow in the future? What does 5 years down the line look like for Reel on Social? Sarika Gulati Gupta: In our mission to engage businesses and build communities with video content ,we will continuously push ourselves : To create Revolution in content creation & Creating Positive difference To create revolution in content creation by setting up a Content Factory. To meet the need of business houses for quality video services. To engaging corporates & communities with video content &nurturing young talent Shaping Future talent Video +digital Academy. And creating sustainable revenue model Building communities content & its distribution, Hence making revenue by monetizing. Collaborating with advertisers- Ready & Customized content. Great Companies: If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be? Sarika Gulati Gupta: Focus on building unique value propositions while solving problem areas of your target customers and never miss on delivering brand promises.

Great Companies: How did you get your idea or concept for the business Sharwari Kulkarni: I worked with innovation ecosystem for more than 6 years and understood that it has a lot to offer to the education space. I worked on a number of projects in innovation and education with the government and CSR projects during this time and identified gaps in current innovation programs. Later, I founded my start-up, MakeShift to fill that gap. There were 2 important things which I got to understand while working on innovation programs: Students are encouraged to work on problem solving but holistic perspective to approach a problem is much needed. Inculcating the mindset of innovation and entrepreneurship is important if we expect our children to become future entrepreneurs. Our classrooms are still functioning in the traditional way and children have this fundamental question to ask: how to come up with new ideas? If classrooms opt for old pedagogy, how do we expect new things to happen? Hence at MakeShift, we provide avenues for holistic development of creative and innovative attitudes in children with our programs and help teachers to innovate for their classrooms with our teacher training courses. Great Companies: What are the various Services provided by MakeShift Sharwari Kulkarni: We have a mix of products and services. Courses for Children: We have courses for children on Design Thinking, Prototyping, Entrepreneurship, Financial Literacy for inculcating innovation and entrepreneurship mindset in them. A number of our courses are designed for children having a creative bend of mind where they can learn to lead with their creative abilities. These courses include Storytelling, Creative Writing, Content Creation: Blogs and YouTube etc. which help to inspire them to start their creative ventures. Services: We provide services for CSR, Govt and Schools for their creativity and innovation programs helping them with program curation, curriculum development, facilitation and mentoring. Teacher Training: Apart from this, we have a few carefully designed courses for teachers: Facilitating Remote Workshops, Online Teaching Strategies, Design Thinking and Metacognitive Teaching Strategies. Great Companies: What makes MakeShift different from hundreds of other Educational platforms? Sharwari Kulkarni: It is true that there is no dearth of education companies in India. At MakeShift, we go high on content. We are not a tech platform that connects teachers and students but we produce high quality content in house, train our facilitators and mentors and provide mentoring to students. Mentoring is our USP. All our facilitators are available on demand to help children in their projects. Secondly, our programs are designed to inculcate mindset and 21st century skills where we work with students to build their core capacities. Though our children produce amazing outcomes at the end, our focus is on exploration, understanding key concepts, experiments and mentoring. We provide holistic approach to creativity and innovation which is rare to find. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Sharwari Kulkarni: Being a bootstrapped start-up, our marketing expenditure is limited. We are building a community of committed customers first. With all the chaos in the education sector, it is very difficult to build a brand which speaks about quality of content, facilitation and mentoring. Second challenge is to find quality facilitators and mentors, people who really know their stuff and can deliver it to the best of the standard. Great Companies: How do you plan to grow in the future? What does 5 years down the line look like for MakeShift? Sharwari Kulkarni: We plan to grow as a market leader in creativity and innovation courses for children offering them to schools across India. We want to create 10,000 children creative leaders in the next 5 years. Great Companies: If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be? Sharwari Kulkarni: Trust the journey, you will figure it out. If you know you can provide value, stick to that. Don’t go behind trends. It takes time and patience to build impact driven companies.

Great Companies: How did you get your idea or concept for the business? KJ Singh: Since I was working in the similar industry at a senior position, we could understand the challenges for the clients which we were not able to service for want of bandwidth, capabilities, financial freedom, we decided to venture on our own with the help of Independent VC’s. Great Companies: What are the various Services provided by Evolve Brands Pvt Ltd KJ Singh: We Are a Techno Marketing Services company which provides the entire gamut of marketing needs for a client which includes Direct Marketing, Contact Centers, Events and Activations, CRM and Loyalty (B2B, B2I, B2C) , Web based technology solutions, Mobile and Retail Solutions, Integrated Inbound Response through QR code, Bar Code, Missed Call, Mobile, SMS, etc., Relationship Marketing and Field Marketing solutions. These are our Primary services however we also provide support services like Creatives and Print Production , Email, SMS and Whatsapp communication and Last Mile Redemptions. Great Companies: What makes Evolve Brands Pvt Ltd different from hundreds of other similar service providers? KJ Singh: We are probably the few loyalty companies who are a full fledged CRM and Loyalty Companies providing all the services under one roof with a Pan India coverage along with MENA region with existence of over 19 years. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? KJ Singh: Our biggest challenge today is the right kind of domain experienced people to manage the clients, as there are no training schools for teaching CRM and Loyalty and most the experience is learned over the job training and hands on and we require people with a marketing and technology background which is a difficult mix.. Other than that our competition being large MNC’s their processes and experience helps them to create inroads in to the large brands with their brand and reach. Great Companies: How do you plan to grow in the future? What does 5 years down the line look like for Evolve Brands Pvt Ltd? KJ Singh: Fortunately we have grown very well as a boutique company and have been profitable over the past 12 years. We have been steadily adding new clients however our focus has always been on getting inroads in to existing clients rather than new client acquisition, but over the past few years, we have been able to add 4- 5 new clients YOY and should continue to do so. Our oldest client is about 16 years and still growing. We have a large exposure in the Auto and Auto Ancillary Industry and are now planning some new technology innovations in the Auto Industry based on best practices to enable the Auto brands to scale up their After Sales approach. Great Companies: If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be? KJ Singh: Lots of opportunities are available every day to every one, keep your eyes and ears open to grab them specially the ones which are in your field and your experience.

Great Companies: How did you get your idea or concept for the business? Meghavi Vyas : My answer might just disappoint you and/or many others, but the fact remains that the idea of having my business around Image Management was purely destined. I just had no plans about getting into this kind of business. My academic qualification is in engineering which is miles away from the concept of Image Management. As a matter of fact I always lacked that extra dose of confidence since I was never particular about my own image(perks of being an engineer) Now when I look back, I strongly feel that my lack is what drove me towards Image Management. I wanted something which was not just superficial like putting on makeup but was scientific enough, logical enough to be accepted as a way of life. This is how I got into the business idea of using self as the biggest resource for success. Oftentimes I jokingly quote that I have a start up in self-esteem. I have been blessed to move from "Designing buildings to designing personalities" Great Companies: What are the various Services provided by Mega Image Consulting Meghavi Vyas : Mega Image Consulting deals with the clients in four major ways. 1) Training When we look at training it can be a Corporate training, group session for a closed group of a particular club or organisation, open workshops where the participant is broadly defined. This can be either on a behavioral aspect or a subject related to image enhancement. Here we discuss the most pressing and most common aspects in stipulated time. 2) Personalised Services When a person has specific needs to be addressed to, needs personal attention and personalized solutions, is not in a position to adjust his schedule with the group sessions, we go ahead with the individual one on one sessions. Here the sessions are tailor made to fit the needs and quieres of a particular client, no generic solutions are provided. Lot of senior professionals come to us to build their Executive Presence. 3) Uniform Design With more awareness and need of updating, uniform is no longer just a pair of shirt and trouser/skirt given to the employees. The companies who understand the impact of the attire on the company branding, on the morale of employees, and the perception created by their brand ambassadors(employees) wearing that uniform invite us to design a uniform that truly represents the company. 4)Keynote Image Management is still a less understood topic a lot of times. Corporates want to spread awareness around the subject and this is where keynote helps. Annual days, AGM, Womens Day, etc are some occasions where we get to share our thoughts as keynote. Great Companies: What makes Mega Image Consulting different from hundreds of other Training and Coaching Firms? Meghavi Vyas : Well, the focus at Mega Image Consulting has not been about being different from hundreds and thousands of other similar firms as much as it has been on creating impact and bringing in transformation. If that is a differentiator, yes we focus on transmutations. We, being a growing firm, still have a personalised service scope with our clients. The biggest differentiator, I believe, comes from the fact that I know the pain of not having an appropriate image and coming from there, I feel the untold pain of my clients, which definitely brings a sea change in how we treat our clients. Having authored one of the few books on Image Management in India, I can definitely say we have observed and dealt with quite a lot of day to day issues of people related to their own image, their Personal Brand. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Meghavi Vyas : Mega Image Consulting, being a smaller venture has its own set of challenges. Coming from a non-business family background there are a lot of doing-learning-redoing cycles which take up time, energy and money. Of course one learns from experts and time too teaches but even that has a cost. Having plans but lacking in execution due to dependency on certain factors becomes one of the biggest challenges. As an educator/coach the expectation of people to be constantly in that high energy and positive mindframe at times go too far. Apart from that we face the similar issues of marketing, revenue generation, building teams and so on. Great Companies: How do you plan to grow in the future? What does 5 years down the line look like for Mega Image Consulting? Meghavi Vyas : Mega Image Consulting looks to niche down in Personal Branding and come up with short programs, detailed programs and individual services for people wanting to build themselves as a Brand and not just remain a commodity. Great Companies: If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be? Meghavi Vyas : JUST BEGIN. I think this is the one thing I have struggled a lot while I was starting. The apprehension of should I - should I not, Is this right for me or not, will this work for my domain, my city, my personality and so on. The little voice inside will keep talking about doubts and fear - that is its job after all - but all you need to do is JUST BEGIN. Ofcourse, you want to be mindful of the risk factors but do not just stop taking action. The antidote to any fear you fathom is action. Make this your business mantra and I can safely assure you that you will be winning against one of the major challenges - time. In this fast age late is what eliminates your fate. Kill the doubt and JUST BEGIN.

Great Companies: How did you get your idea or concept for the business? Pooja Gavale: Well, while pursuing my Masters in Clinical Psychology, I've learned the absolute needs for 2-12 years kids & compared them with the current market scenario. I observed that everyone is focusing on only academic learnings, few of them are working on extracurricular activities, but there is a huge gap between the need of those kids and the available options to the parents. Academics are important but it is just one part successful life. To set an individual identity and to walk the path of life, one needs to give a look at all the aspects of Life. Unfortunately, the very huge set of people neglected this due to lack of awareness & negligence. Here we ShaRaSa Culture & Skill Development LLP with the help of our team of Certified and Professional Psychologists have designed and developed our own successful assessment and learning module for 2-12 year kids holistic growth, which is a fusion of our very own Ancient Indian Culture and Today's Advanced modern science. Great Companies: What are the various Services provided by ShaRaSa Culture & Skill Development LLP Pooja Gavale: We "ShaRaSa Culture & Skill Development LLP" have our uniquely designed training module in the interest of Kids Holistic Growth, which helps kids to develop and grow, Physically, Emotionally, Psychologically, Socially & Intellectually. We deliver these Exclusive Training Modules through our Activities Sessions, Day Care Services. To maintain the time balance for kids we also have a dedicated service portfolio in Academic Tuitions, Dance Sessions, Drawing Sessions, Abacus, Languages like English & Sanskrit & Many more which help parents and kids save their travel time, efforts, and its suitable for their economic decisions too. Great Companies: What makes ShaRaSa Culture & Skill Development LLP different from hundreds of other similar service providers? Pooja Gavale: We "ShaRaSa Culture & Skill Development LLP" are Unique and Different from the very formation of the concept level of the business. We have our specialized team of Psychologists who are dedicated to research, develop and deliver the best assessments and learning for kids, We are focused on Kids Holistic Growth & Development, hence we allow very few kids in one session. We have our uniquely designed PEPSI Module and 5C assessment criteria, we also have our Result measures which help us keep a track of Kids Growth & Development. We have designed some products like "ShaRaSa Champs" & "ShaRaSa Homeground" which results being a solution to the most common issue for the Kids & Their Parents daily challenge of Maximum use of Digital Screen, we set them with our uniquely designed product to almost "ZERO SCREENTIME Activities" Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Pooja Gavale: We "ShaRaSa Culture & Skill Development LLP" keep struggling and facing challenges in the awareness part of the Business, people are more inclined towards academic success or extracurricular part of of their kid's life, they are not aware of the fact that current phase of life and the situation around the world has impacted so bad on kids overall thinking, behaviors and body habits that it will be a big issue in their overall life and growth. Parents need to check on this and act on priority to get the focus on Kids Holistic Development with ShaRaSa and not only one or few aspects of the life. Great Companies: How do you plan to grow in the future? What do 5 years down the line look like for ShaRaSa Culture & Skill Development LLP? Pooja Gavale: We "ShaRaSa Culture & Skill Development LLP" are planning to expand PAN India in upcoming years, to every responsible parent who is aware and wants to give their Kids A Holistic Growth & Developed them Physically, Emotionally, Psychologically, Socially & Intellectually. Great Companies: If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be? Pooja Gavale: In this drastically changing world, Don't follow any path without knowing where it will take you. Break the Chain and Be the Change. At ShaRaSa - We Are Nurturing The Future.

Great Companies: How did you get your idea or concept for the business? Harsh Wardhan: Some part of it was always in me. In my 8th standard started renting out my video game. Got caught by parents so stopped it. Helped brother in his photo studio. Later in college life I started my coaching centre too. I failed in that as very soon I realised that I am not good in teaching academics. After graduation I realised my potential. I left two jobs in beginning of my career because they were not in my field of interest that’s design. I had to take them due to family and social pressure. But later I successfully got my dream job in a big MNC as Equipment design engineer under very experienced team. During my entire job life, I used to work very hard. But like most of us I always felt that I am underpaid. So I always kept on looking possibilities of starting something of my own where I can be rewarded in proportion to my efforts. The other reason was that most of the times I was fired by my bosses for late coming. I was trusted for work but cursed for discipline. These two sides were like nullifying each other any nothing was coming out. So finally after 10 years in regular job I made a decision of starting something of my own to maintain a work life balance and to get what I deserve. Great Companies: What are the various Services provided by HW Transformation Harsh Wardhan: We are completely into Mechanical Design Services. It itself is a broad term. It includes all type of machine design to some extent. We are helping clients to realise their dreams. We can help in:- 1. 2D and 3D modelling of almost any machine on earth using Solidworks and Autodesk products. We have perpetual licenses of Solidworks and Autodesk offers term license for adhoc need. 2. Research and development of new products with minimal supervision. 3. Reverse Engineering using point cloud. 4. Vendor Development and evaluation. 5. Manual Engineering calculations to clients standard. Great Companies: What makes HW Transformation from hundreds of other Manufacturing Companies ? Harsh Wardhan: We are service providing agency. Not a very big group but small team of engineers working together. We give our 200% to the projects. Its our zeal because of which we build a long term relationship. We believe in steady and regular growth. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Harsh Wardhan: Being a small team and without any financial backup we can’t expand rapidly as we can. Many times I have to play multiple roles. Since I started this, I have become a It engineer ( software and hardware) repairing my pcs on adhoc basis. I have become an accountant handling accounts. I have become an corporate advocate dealing agreements myself. I hardly gets anytime to work as a mechanical engineer. Great Companies: How do you plan to grow in the future? What does 5 years down the line look like for HW Transformation? Harsh Wardhan: My plan is to develop new solutions, getting it patented, selling the patent or launch of product of our own. We are not doing it for clients but soon we are planning to work on real life challenges parallelly. I do realise this is a very challenging path but this is the only path to grow exponentially without much investment of money in advance. Down the line 5 years I see we having a high tech LAB with all the advanced manufacturing solutions solving real life challenges and playing our role in developing the country. I personally find environmental technology very promising. Tony Stark is my inspiration, I know its fiction but not impossible. In real life I admire Elon Musk. Great Companies: If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be? Harsh Wardhan: Frankly speaking I don’t call myself a businessman but I am a professional like doctors, Architects, etc. So not sure my advice is good from business point view or not. I can only say find the good in you and make it best. Don’t follow the crowd. Just think what are you good at and nourish it. You can only succeed when you enjoy your work, there is no other shortcut.

Great Companies: How did you get your idea or concept for the business? Deepali Pandey : I did my Bachelors of architecture from GCA Lucknow,During Bachelors degree my main focus is to design with nature.then I passed Gate Examination and applied for Masters in Landscape architecture in one of the best institute in India,I got a selection in School of planning and architecture New Delhi.During Masters we have worked on various master planning projects in urban,Domestic,Regional level and successfully completed my masters in landscape architecture and got the Gold Medal for the Best Outgoing student year and recipient of the Narendra Juneja Gold Medal for the Best Thesis Project 2011,Department of Landscape architecture, New Delhi After working for 8 years with two of the largest and most prominent landscape architecture firms in the India and started my own firm A + D Design Studio. I have gained extensive design experience on many notable hotels, resorts, residential developments throughout India and have had the opportunity to work with foreign Architects and many other Private Developers and Private Corporates. Landscape architecture focuses on the relationship between people and the environment. As the world’s population grows the pressure on our resources increases. People are more aware nowadays of the importance of preserving the environment and because of this, landscape architecture is now viewed as more important than it used to be in architecture, we keep building design & planning in mind but landscape has been ignored considerably,I think it is a very important parameter. Regeneration of polluted areas,Climate change and pollution are severely affecting freshwater supply in many areas.The endangerment of wetlands is especially big problem because they have a lot of biological diversity, filter stormwater and control floods.Landscape architecture protects wetlands and seeks solutions to provide storm-water management in a natural way.Landscape is a very important factor for the benefit of our environment, that's why I took my business forward,We work on projects ranging in size from large-scale master planning commissions to mid-sized institutions to small urban interventions. Regardless of scale or typology, our multi-disciplinary design staff create environmentally advanced, technical projects, promoting greater social engagement and ecology for every project. Great Companies: What are the various Services provided by A+D Design Studio Deepali Pandey : LANDSCAPE MASTER PLANNING - Typically applied to large scale residential or mixed use developments, these services establish overall landscape character for the project. Deliverables are depicted through the preparation of illustrative plans, sections, elevations, character imagery and hand drawn perspective sketches. LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE SERVICES - Detailed landscape design services that evolve from highly graphic conceptual visuals into highly technical documents intended for site construction implementation purposes. A + D Design Studio documentation is of the highest quality, yet simple enough for the Client's understanding and contractor's use for implementation purposes, even in the most remote of locations. Landscape Master Planning Landscape Planning and Design Parks and Recreation Planning Golf Course Landscape Exterior Hardscape Water Feature and Pool Planning Planting and Irrigation Landscape Maintenance and Remedial Programming LEED and Low Impact Development Strategies Streetscapes Urban Design Graphics and Site Modeling Construction Documents Bidding and Construction Contract Administration Physical Planning Great Companies: What makes A+D Design Studio different from hundreds of other landscape architect firms? Deepali Pandey: • Provide design excellence throughout every aspect of each project • Procure good quality projects that offer challenges with rewarding results • Ensure a proactive approach through all aspects of business • Establish strong working relationships with reputable Clients • Be available for Clients • Offer competitive and reasonable professional fees • Be successful and profitable • Pay extra special attention to detail • Hire knowledgeable, good quality and trustworthy staff • Promote an environmental design approach as appropriate for each project • Be flexible and unique in business approach • Offer casual and an enjoyable work environment Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Deepali Pandey: As a Landscape architect the challenge we have always faced”—defining and communicating what landscape architecture is, both to the public and to other design professionals, to ensure that the value of landscape architects’ work is understood and recognized. Other recurring topics included the economy, finding work, dealing with limited project budgets, competition, climate change, and water scarcity. Though such challenges can seem insurmountable at times, there is still a great deal of optimism to be found. For some, “There has never been a better time to be a landscape architect.” And as one respondent put it:“Today we have great opportunities to redefine public spaces, as the value of parks and innovative open space design are in the news and have the eyes of the public. We need to use this momentum and set the standard for excellent open space design; these are exciting times for landscape architects!” Great Companies: How do you plan to grow in the future? What does 5 years down the line look like for A+D Design Studio? Deepali Pandey: I do not have a precise role in mind, but my aim over the next five years is to be at a place where I can make a difference as a Landscape architect. Business advancement is significant to me, so I look forward to taking on more responsibilities and gaining more industry awareness in the process. Hopefully my Landscape professionalism will allow me to help the business achieve the desired goals in the coming years.I have to push myself further and work hard so that I can take my business to the point that I dreamed of. Great Companies: If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be? Deepali Pandey : Follow 4 D's Desire, Dedication, Determination and Discipline. Don't believe in Luck,Believe in Hard work.

Great Companies: How did you get your idea or concept for the business? Sharon Lobo: When I started out my freelancing journey, I came across quite a few people that had the money but couldn't find quality writers. That's when I decided to focus on quality content and started expanding by adding multiple services around it like Website development, LinkedIn Optimization, PR, etc. My sole focus with the company is to produce something that is valuable to the brand's audience rather than just focusing on likes and comments on various social media platforms. The biggest asset that my company has is, the services provided by us were literally asked by the clients. I started out by writing a few blogs, it was my clients that came to me and asked me to add multiple other services because of the speed and quality of delivery. This is what I always say, rather than just speaking and showcasing your services, ask your clients what they want, they will always give you the answer. Great Companies: What are the various Services provided by Quirky Writers Media Sharon Lobo: Quirky Writers Media is a 360-degree Marketing agency that provides both online and offline Marketing. In a pool of specializations, we bring all Marketing services under one roof; making it a one-stop solution for the growth of Brands. We solve the problem of expensive marketing by eliminating the need to work with multiple agencies and quality damage by offering premium services taken care of by experts. Everything that you can think of in terms of Marketing is what we offer right from Brochure creation to Website development to Award shows. We have been known for our prompt Content writing services, Organic LinkedIn Services that have helped countless B2B founders in COVID times, and Animation videos that are delivered within a week which usually take a month. Great Companies: What makes Quirky Writers Media different from hundreds of other Marketing Agencies? Sharon Lobo : Before I even mention this, I want to talk about how we need to stop looking at being completely different especially in the agency world where everyone's services are almost the same. Of course, you should have a USP but you don't need to stand out all the time, you can offer the same services as others, there's enough for all of us out there. Just make sure you are offering quality services. As for us, when we looked around we saw that everyone was just offering one specialization and companies had to go to multiple agencies which caused disengagement in their Marketing strategies, hence we launched as a one-stop solution. With the budgets and time that startups and solopreneurs lack, they couldn't afford to onboard multiple agencies and that's exactly what we get done for them in half the time. Additionally, I will be completing a decade of working in the Marketing world, which brings in the expertise and experience that startups need to grow from scratch to scale. Besides this, we don't work with packages and a one size fits all model, we ask the clients what their 6-months-goal is and what budget they have in mind for a monthly retainer and then based on that curate a customized package that will do their brand maximum good. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Sharon Lobo: Today everybody who knows how to use Instagram thinks they are a Marketing expert. Marketing has shifted from understanding the depths of consumer psychology to just how many likes and followers you have. This has ruined the reputation of Marketers and what they are capable of. Many times when clients come to me they barely have any faith in Marketing as a whole and when I talk to them I realize they were working with some 14-year-old who told them they could bring in leads and failed to do so. My biggest challenge then becomes to first restore their faith in Marketing before even onboarding them as a client because unless you believe in it you will not be patient enough to see the results. The second challenge is not understanding the difference between sales and marketing, many a time clients come to us and want to see leads right from Day 1. There is no understanding of branding or how Marketing can really help their brand. Great Companies: How do you plan to grow in the future? What does 5 years down the line look like for Quirky Writers Media? Sharon Lobo : In the past 4 years we have gone from a purely Content writing agency to offering some marketing services to a full-fledge 360-degree Marketing agency and we will continue to keep expanding in the same sector. Quirky Writers Media has plans of launching various products in the Marketing world that will help budding Marketers find a place to get practical knowledge. We are also looking forward to growing our client base further in the international markets of Dubai, China, and Africa. To sum it up, in the next 5 years, we are looking to have a team of 100+ members working towards bringing back the essence of true marketing while also helping the youth who are interested to pursue a career in this field. Great Companies: If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be? Sharon Lobo: Define what success means to you, it can either be a full-blown agency with thousands working with you or it can be you sitting in the Himalayas working with just 10 clients. There is no 1 definition of success, like how we are taught by society. Take a book and a pen, go to a quiet coffee shop, and ask yourself these questions, What makes me happy? What kind of lifestyle do I want to pursue? What kind of career do I want to build? Where do I want to live in the next few years? And all of these questions should be answered just by your own thoughts. Not your mother's, father's, teacher's, teachings no, just what you want to do, and then you will see everything falling in place. Website: https://www.quirkywritersmedia.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/quirky-writers-media-0b37011b3/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/quirkywritersmedia?utm_medium=copy_link Twitter: https://twitter.com/QWM_Bytes Link to get a free Marketing Checkup Report: https://vztxryvy8dt.typeform.com/to/VD5KtUNw

Great Companies: How did you get your idea or concept for the business? Manish Keswani: There were 2 incidents which led me to becoming the co-founder of PaperTrue. One was a playful yet thought provoking riddle which my son put me. He asked me if there was anything that I could teach every living being on this planet what would it be. I couldn't come up with a suitable answer. So, I asked him what his reply to that question would be? He said, I'd teach them to communicate. That answer stayed with me. A few days thereafter, Rishi, who was earlier a member of my team in one of my previous businesses, approached me with this idea that would help people communicate better with impeccable written English. This would be especially useful for the research community, it would prove to be a boon for writers aspiring to become published authors, it would be awesome for anyone wanting to communicate better using perfectly written English. It was a no brainer for me to say yes to his idea. That's how PaperTrue was born. Great Companies: What are the various Services provided by PaperTrue Pte. Ltd Manish Keswani: Every service that one needs for error free and effective English language documents. Whether it's academic in nature about getting researchers to get published in high impact factor journals or it is to ensure clear communication with the objective of impressing evaluators with an error-free and improved thesis or dissertation, we've got it covered. Of course, we also help writers craft and publish impeccably written impactful books, just as we do for ensuring powerful screenplays and scripts with our full range of broad spectrum yet specialized services. Great Companies: What makes PaperTrue Pte. Ltd Services different from hundreds of other similar service providers? Manish Keswani: Speed of service coupled with the reliability of being error-free and effective. Even though we offer the industry's lowest turn around times, we're renowned for offering highly dependable quality of services which is evident from the ratings we enjoy, the reviews that our customers write, thereby enabling many others to make PaperTrue their first choice for professional editing and proofreading services. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Manish Keswani: Being a professional editing and proofreading service provider, we maintain an extremely high level of confidentiality not only in terms of the documents we process but also in terms of who our clients are. Some of the World's best known businesses, brands, writers, authors, researchers and even publishing houses are our clients. Our customers include some well known names from the Middle East, China as well as from North America. Even though we earn accolades and adulation for the quality of the work we do, we don't mention those names as references to develop more business for ourselves. So, spreading the word about our services organically is a bit of an uphill task. But we're overcoming that as we gain more and more popularity among the academic community and the tribe of writers who we've helped become published authors. Great Companies: How do you plan to grow in the future? What does 5 years down the line look like for PaperTrue Pte Ltd? Manish Keswani: We're in the process of deploying AI and ML tools to support our customers as well as to greatly enhance efficiency of our editors. We're also progressing towards success on the dual offering or hybrid offering of automated English language improvers coupled with human sense and sensibilities. Great Companies: If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be? Manish Keswani: Entrepreneurship is a very long term commitment. It's meant for those who can be optimistic while being realistic. Also, if you've decided to start, start soon, if possible, now. As it is, all that anyone has is the present moment. Webiste : https://www.papertrue.com/ Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/PaperTrue Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/papertrue/ YoutTube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-zHBtXoE1RgNixjSWls7jg Twitter : https://twitter.com/Paper_True