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Great Companies: Please tell me something about the business and how did you come up with such an idea? Sarah Sheridan: 2007 started off as a high street agency with sales then added letting in 2008, changed to hybrid agency with no premises in 2013 first in the area to take the modern approach to estate agency. Great Companies: What are the various services and products provided by your company? Sarah Sheridan: Residential property sales, Lettings and block management. Great Companies: Why should one choose you over others in this field? Sarah Sheridan: Honesty we always pride ourselves on the best advice for our clients not what is best for us. We have local knowledge and all the services of a high street agent without the high fees. Myself and my husband run the business and are very much at the forefront keeping the service personal and always professional for our clients. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Sarah Sheridan: Making sure home owners and landlords know there is an alternative to the high street agent. Great Companies: What do you think are the few main things which are most important for a successful business? Sarah Sheridan: Consistency, honesty and valuing your clients.

Great Companies: Please tell me something about the business and how did you come up with such an idea? Kara Northcott: I heard about the business when a friend lost her husband.  She encouraged me to have a look at it on line and they were looking for a distributor here in New Zealand. Great Companies: What are the various services and products provided by your company? Kara Northcott: We create diamonds in 5 different colours in 3 different shapes and various sizes from 0.03 carat through to 2 carat. Great Companies: Why should one choose you over others in this field? Kara Northcott: As far as I know, we are the only company in New Zealand able to offer such as service.  We give people the encouragement to believe in the future and find their own path forward after losing a loved one so that they can feel comfortable, confident and enjoy life again. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Kara Northcott: At this stage due to covid 19, enquiries have really dropped off, however this is an opportunity once a number of restrictions have been lifted. Great Companies: What do you think are the few main things which are most important for a successful business? Kara Northcott: I believe in being very genuine, sincere and caring.  The loss of a loved one or pet is a very emotional time and I want to help people through this process.

Great Companies: Please tell me something about the business and how did you come up with such an idea? Pradeep Pandey(Ravi): Natural image is a complete photo and video solution. We provide all type of services related to photography, and videography. We are proficient in wedding photography, Pre wedding photography, Candid photography, Product Photography, modelling photography, cinematography and wedding videography. Main Idea is to provide best photography solution for different class of people in the society according to their convenience and budget. Great Companies: What are the various services and products provided by your company? Pradeep Pandey(Ravi): We provide services in all types of videography and photography. We provide printed mugs, t-shirt, key rings and all personalised gift items. Great Companies: Why should one choose you over others in this field? Pradeep Pandey(Ravi): We are customer friendly and our main aim is to provide best services to the customer according to his needs and maintaining his budget. Customers’ satisfaction is our satisfaction. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Pradeep Pandey(Ravi): Getting good respect in the field of wedding photography is the main struggle for wedding photographer. Wedding photographer is always seen with prejudice view and an orthodox thinking. Some customers bargain for the last payment and sometimes it gets hard to get the whole payment. Great Companies: What do you think are the few main things which are most important for a successful business? Pradeep Pandey(Ravi): Time management, commitment and the main thing is customers satisfaction which plays the main role in expansion of one's business.

Great Companies: Please tell me something about the business and how did you come up with such an idea? Arun Thomas: We started in 2007. At that time there were no dedicated bike portals in India. I jumped upon the idea when I sold my brother's bike through corporate job boards. Great Companies: What are the various services and products provided by your company? Arun Thomas: Trade Second Hand Bikes, Book Test Drive for New Bikes, Get finance for used or new two-wheelers. Great Companies: Why should one choose you over others in this field? Arun Thomas: Bikes4Sale is the only fully paid classifieds website for two-wheelers in India. We charge a small listing fee from Seller and that keeps the fraudsters away from the platform. So, the trust factor is much higher than free classifieds platforms. Also, our used bike valuation tool (launched in 2011) gives a very good idea about the current market value of the bike. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Arun Thomas: We are bootstrapped. Lack of funds is the main struggle which we face. https://www.bikes4sale.in/ LinkedIn Profile - https://www.linkedin.com/in/arunthomaskb/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Bikes4Sale/ #bikes4sale #sellbike #buybike #newbike

Great Companies: Please tell me something about the business and how did you come up with such an idea? Avijit Sarkar: I started my career in Entrepreneurship with my company Avifa in 2012. At that period of time, I had just started college and I had to juggle my time between a night shift BPO and my classes. It was turning out to be very difficult, one thing I was looking for was a system to track time and attendance. To manage the employees I was initially using pen and paper. With time it struck me that why not make a simple app to track attendance, location and selfie. A few years later, the BPO sector was plateauing and so was my interest in it. So I pivoted to IT servicing. Avifa runs as an IT service company till date. With time, I realized that I wanted to be a product player, and my core interest was to solve everyday problems with technology. Without looking elsewhere, I took that small app for tracking attendance and created Regular.li. Regular.li now runs as a small attendance tracking solution for SMEs across the globe. After a few years, while running Regular.li, I made it a practice to call at least 20-30 customers a day. And every day it was so painful for me to go through an excel, copy the numbers to my phone, and call. Thus I made a small app to auto-dial numbers from an excel sheet using an app. It was an interesting solution, a simple app could auto-dial numbers from an excel, save the result of the call, and allowed me to store notes. A couple of months later I fine-tuned the app and GoDial was born. GoDial is now a fast-growing product across SMEs, Colleges, Individuals, and any sector where phone calls are being made. This has been my journey so far. Great Companies: What are the various services and products provided by your company? Avijit Sarkar: With Regular.li, we provide a replacement for hardware-based biometric Attendance solution using our Mobile app. With GoDial, we allow you to empower your team with an autodialer and CRM that automatically places calls and tracks leads. No hardware required. Great Companies: Why should one choose you over others in this field? Avijit Sarkar: The simplicity and usability of both the products are the primary differentiator. With both the tools you are started off in under 2 minutes flat. We have developed the UX in such a way that training is not required. It’s a fully automated flow. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Avijit Sarkar: Being a bootstrapped company we have to struggle a lot. Other than that, Sales are a major challenge, especially doing it organically and without funds. Great Companies: What do you think are the few main things which are most important for a successful business? Avijit Sarkar: Everybody believes an Idea is such a big thing. To be honest, the world is so big that one idea comes to multiple people at the same time. Then you have to build it well and then you need to be at the right time and at the right place to sell it. So to sum it up, I believe that Product-market fit, execution, and ability to sell, are the key things to a successful business. Regular.li  Website : https://regular.li Android : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.avifa.regularli iOS: https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/app/regular.li-attendance-tracking/id1114015098?mt=8 GoDial Web : https://godial.cc Android : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.avifa.godial iOS : https://apps.apple.com/in/app/godial-auto-call-center-crm/id1492309932

Great Companies: Please tell me something about the business and how did you come up with such an idea? Biju Kandamangalam Soman: The name was suggested by my wife and we came in to wedding business by evaluating the opportunity of a never ending business. Great Companies: What are the various services and products provided by your company? Biju Kandamangalam Soman: Partner match making, Wedding Planner and event management solutions. Great Companies: Why should one choose you over others in this field? Biju Kandamangalam Soman: The quality support we provide to the customers at an affordable budget so that all category people can choose services from us. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Biju Kandamangalam Soman: The high competition in the matrimony segment and fund was our challenges. Great Companies: What do you think are the few main things which are most important for a successful business? Biju Kandamangalam Soman: Dedication, learning from failures, proper analytics, feedback from Customers and timely quality support.

Great Companies: Please tell me something about the business and how did you come up with such an idea? Gibin V Kurian: I was previously abroad for a period and immediately started thinking of why we should make a change in our home country. Started searching for my dreams and finally up here. Great Companies: What are the various services and products provided by your company? Gibin V Kurian: We basically in UK nursing placement consulting and building construction field in the industry. Great Companies: Why should one choose you over others in this field? Gibin V Kurian: I had a clear picture of how to enter into the market and how to catch the market. No I created my own place among our competitors. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Gibin V Kurian: First one was entering into the market because of investment we have to make. Then about when we make a stand in the market. Now we have our own market. Great Companies: What do you think are the few main things which are most important for a successful business? Gibin V Kurian: In my experience its hardworking and positive attitude towards struggles coming to us is more important. Learn from our losses, make it a step, never stop for anybody.

Great Companies: Please tell me something about the business and how did you come up with such an idea? Apurv Patil: Garry17 is a research oriented company we keep on evolving ourselves in terms of technology for almost a year. We have been through many international and top national coaches, teams and sportsmen building useful and sustainable technology and algorithm. We designed world’s first smart t-shirt and now we are integrating our technology with other companies too. I and a senior friend Dhiraj Krishnani participated in an event called explorica and we wanted to build something cool so we made a t-shirt with a chip of 2 cm radius and 0.5 mm thick which can send signals to iot devices in the room. This way when u enter the room let's gets on when you come out it gets off. Great Companies: What are the various services and products provided by your company? Apurv Patil: For now we have successfully done our testing with the smart t-shirt. The beta version was there in the market from past 6 months now we keep connected with our customers taking feedback on daily bases. We are ready to launch our alpha version very soon and we are taking on board 2 international super athletics. Great Companies: Why should one choose you over others in this field? Apurv Patil: Because we are the only one right now and trust me we are very affordable. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Apurv Patil: I took a break from my 2nd year b.tech so had issues related to finance as you know researching takes a lot of finance must say that so we fully sponsored the company by taking projects and freelancing. Great Companies: What do you think are the few main things which are most important for a successful business? Apurv Patil: 1. Right idea. 2. Right people surrounding you. 3. Emotional intelligence. 4. There is no going back attitude.

Great Companies: Please tell me something about the business and how did you come up with such an idea? Nandagopal Suresh: We are in the field of education and text book development for the last 20 years and from the experience and expertise in the field was influenced in starting this venture. Also from the images that we created for text books are required for the entertainment segment in digital form. Great Companies: What are the various services and products provided by your company? Nandagopal Suresh: CLIPARTINDIA IMAGES is a global provider of customized ,exclusive and original vector images for bedding needs for illustrations and animations. In addition to the normal and exclusive images we have story boards, digital paintings, posters, banners, design elements, Logos, caricatures, greetings and printed books for school students. Also provide school support services like school branding, digital learning etc. Great Companies: Why should one choose you over others in this field? Nandagopal Suresh: quality of our products and services and our expertise in the field of education, design and digital learning. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Nandagopal Suresh: Mobilise the required working capital is the main challenge that we are facing. Great Companies: What do you think are the few main things which are most important for a successful business? Nandagopal Suresh: Initial level working capital support especially for intangible assets creation is most important especially in education and Images creation.

Great Companies: Please tell me something about the business and how did you come up with such an idea? Priyanka Singh: The Core idea of establishment of Taj Agro has been to connect our rural Indian farmers in our supply chain reducing the exploitation of middle men in the food industry. Taj Agro was started with the specific reason of direct supply and purchase from Indian farmers to begin, but yes our existing set of pharma and healthcare customers wanted to buy something in food industry like Basmati Rice, Protein powder, Egg powder and other such daily commodities, under a trusted brand name with guaranteed quality; that’s how, We came up with a separate Food Manufacturing and processing company in our existing Group companies portfolio. Further, this would give benefit to farmers and better price for their gains via supply to our processing units. Taj Agro has been established with a concept to avail quality products of all agro Based Products’ requirements from non-farming countries, under one roof for Importers from various parts of the world and make them aware about wide range of unique products of our nation, which are yet to be shown to the world. Taj Agro Products is Agriculture based company in our country and "heart of this nation lies in a farmer’s field, aroma of fresh cultivated fruits, vegetables, milk, curd, lassi, Chai, and such day to day items". We are a self-sufficient nation; when it comes to “Food”! Therefore, We Taj Group established this venture Taj Agro to promote our country’s long cherished agro products which is best known to the world and just a proper channel is required to facilitate it. This is what I am trying to do via our organization. Great Companies: What are the various services and products provided by your company? Priyanka Singh: Taj Agro major products which are exported are Basmati & Non-Basmati Rice, Sugar, Wheat, Soya Bean Meal, Pulses, Spices, Tea, HPS (Ground Nut), Sesame Seeds, Yellow Corn Maize, Dry Fruits etc. In health protein segment, we have Egg powder, Soya Protein Powder, Hydrolyzed Nutra products, Vitamins, health supplements, and mother care products. We also have innovative products like Essential Oil, Fruit Powder, Honey, seeds, Real Spices of India, Ground Spices, Blends, cereals and pulses, fertilizers etc. Great Companies: Why should one choose you over others in this field? Priyanka Singh: Taj Agro manufacturing facilities are based in Maharashtra, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu. Our headquarters is located in Mumbai, and branch locations are at — Ahmedabad, Hyderabad and Jharkhand etc. Taj Agro's wide network in India for outsourcing of right Agricultural commodities combined with years of expertise keeps us many steps ahead of all other Agro traders in our country. Over the years Taj Agro has developed an excellent Agro Product basket for manufacturing, processing and trading and simultaneously developing sophisticated infrastructure facilities for Sourcing, Milling/Processing and Shipping. Apart from our strong sourcing networks directly via farmers; our other major facilities include large warehousing; on schedule time delivery of Products; Credit Facilities to importers, Buyers, and always making innovative changes in our system which can keep us ahead among our competitors. We as Taj Agro is always looking to improve ourselves and connect more farmers. Every day is a new day and there is always some scope to learn and form your own strategy and consumer trends accordingly. Further; we are listed on major online shopping portals like: Amazon, Flipkart etc for customer ease to order and access to small quantity users. Further, we are gradually looking to expand our sales on other such platforms as we are getting good response of customers. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Priyanka Singh: The most challenging has been to obtain sustainable supply from farmers due to usage of pesticides in the farming and agro based products to increase yields. Taj Agro has been actively involved in implementation of pesticides testing procedures under standard operating procedure (SOPs) of the supply chain. Further, as a Women Entrepreneur; I also faced some limitations to personally going on large farming villages; where "Female" is not seen as an authoritative figure to make a change; However, by educating the farmers with involvement of local village/districts rural cooperatives such as NABARD etc. So gradually we have started to see some changes. The other challenging part has been to manage various States’ Licensing norms, new label norms by FSSAI (Food Safety and Standards Authority of India) and thus following the regulatory part was bit challenging. Further, learning and adaption is constant. We have hired good consultants and market experts; but yet we constantly remain updated about various food safety regulations, law amendments, implementations, documentation filing etc. Currently our governments has made and implemented good reforms and most of the Govt. Licensing portals are online now; which have brought more transparency in our system resulting in overall increase in the Standard Operating Procedures. These steps would definitely bring positive changes in the long run. Great Companies: What do you think are the few main things which are most important for a successful business? Priyanka Singh: I am a content person; yet not satisfied with what has been done so far. I don’t consider myself successful yet. There is still long way to go. There are different parameters of success for us as a team Taj Agro, but yes; if our employees are well paid, their children are getting quality education, good health and if Taj Agro customers are satisfied, and if new people are looking forward to associate with us; We as Taj Agro family consider such things as success and point of satisfaction. “As a generation next entrepreneur, I Priyanka Singh urge women entrepreneurs both to be courageous in what they do best and improve themselves further in every possible way to become more competitive and self-confident in business life.” Businesses are built on trust and familiarity, with personal relationships playing a vital role in securing business deals. You will not only be judged based on your business proposal, but also on your personal characteristics. Few quick tips for aspiring entrepreneurs: 1. Don’t make product only for elite. 2. Always maintain high quality and cutting edge technology and right price offer. 3. Always consider world as your market place. 4. Keep your vocation to be no. 1. 5. Always be on time for business meetings/ appointments. 6. Direct phone call always helps to judge your customer. 7. Do your research on your client business model, culture, infrastructure etc. These days everyone does not have all the luxury to start things on their own not only because of funds but also because of the family as well as social constraints. However, if an individual is able to make a right balance and pursue the venture by choice then he/she should start it with full-fledged positive thinking. Having said that; maintaining right balance is necessary, choosing like-minded people, venture capitalist, initial Licensing hurdles, and funding, right location, proper infrastructure, associating with vendors / suppliers and right channel of communication, if the industry is product based like us, and above all that should be “Passion to perform”.

Great Companies: Please tell me something about the business and how did you come up with such an idea? Khushboo Broker: Knowing of clothing being a necessity, now people are looking for more and more options, when my mother started this venture 25 years ago, I grew up watching this which lead to me being intriged by it so I studied about it at a reputed college and try to create a version of clothes with the vision I had with the guidance of my mother. Great Companies: What are the various services and products provided by your company? Khushboo Broker: We provide from casual to formal, everyday wear to fusion wear, to heavy bridal and groom wear. We are like a one stop shop in our own refined manner. Great Companies: Why should one choose you over others in this field? Khushboo Broker: Our biggest aim is to always satisfy the needs of our customers, we give a keen eye to personalization and every detail. We make sure our clients are on appointment only, so we are completely devoted to them and respect their time to curate this experience for them. We make sure that our clothes are a comfort fit to our clients and that they feel happy with wearing them because that is our main intention behind making those clothes. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Khushboo Broker: The main struggle with our industry is that fashion is moving too fast, we are always trying to catch up with the needs of the people and trends in the market. But for us that also leads to the gush of creating and learning something new every day, trying to turn this setback for our own advantage. Great Companies: What do you think are the few main things which are most important for a successful business? Khushboo Broker: I think the main things are to always be updated with what's going on but also always have your own personal touch which makes it a designer wear. It's very important that we keep in mind of emotions and needs of our clients and also guide them through with our expertise. There is nothing better than team work when it comes to business and for us our client is more of a co-creator than just a customer.

Great Companies: Please tell me something about the business and how did you come up with such an idea? Well, as a creative head I’ve always loved making my own accessories, especially earrings. I strongly believe that the first visible accessory on your face can really speak a lot about you. After becoming an Architect, I willingly wanted to start a flipside design venture, and the first thought that came to my mind was of my unique skill – fusing quirky digital designs with jewellery. With a social aspect in mind to provide like-minded quirk-lovers eccentric and never-seen-before jewellery along with providing tribal women with financial help, I founded Envielle. Our mission is primarily to provide skill development opportunities to women in remote regions across Maharashtra. Great Companies: What are the various services and products provided by your company? Our most loved service is the custom bulk gifting service wherein products are designed particularly for their perusal i.e. Wedding and Party Favours. People with an eye for quirk and sustainability are the kind of customers we love serving. We have a range of unique Earrings, Necklaces and Anklets. After an overwhelming response to our Fashion Accessories, we swiftly entered into the Home Accessories Niche in 2019, with our top selling categories being Wall and Table Décor. Our rare designs in Tea Coasters and Wall Clocks are loved all over the world. Our team loves innovatively working with newer materials and only the ones with the lowest environmental harm make it to our folio. All our products are crafted out of recycled wood, paper and composites. Great Companies: Why should one choose you over others in this field? Akanksha Chaudhari: Our uniqueness and attention to detail has always been appreciated by our strong community of vibrant women. Our customized Wedding and Party Favor services have also been our unique selling proposition. Not only this, our concept of “Eco-Friendly ONLY” with ultimate transparency is something I don’t see too many brands doing. With Nickel and other harmful Artificial Jewelry Metals contributing to the pollution levels by over 4%, an Eco-friendly switch comes across as a good benevolent, doesn’t it? Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Akanksha Chaudhari: In a few places in India, Art and Design is still perceived as a dormant, sluggish and passive field. When art is fused with function, it is often looked at as avoidable, lavish and overpriced. This mind-set among some regions in India is a big struggle I’ve faced, as impact always begins at the local level. Our products are available all across the world; however, it always looks like a daunting task to be considered as any other business in India. Great Companies: What do you think are the few main things which are most important for a successful business? Akanksha Chaudhari: I think if every baby business undertakes Social Responsibility religiously, changing the world for good wouldn’t sound impossible. I was specifically clear about my social purpose way before starting my business and I think that has given me so much strength and determination to be able to make a difference. Ethics, Transparency and Value are also some vital aspects of a successful business. It is also essential to cope up with the changing times when doing global business.