The SmartCEO - January - February 2018

In this issue

Through in depth conversations with entrepreneurs, CEOs and investors, we work on capturing their thinking process, the business decisions they make and why they make these decisions.

The Idea Issue

5 Rapidly Scaleable Business Ideas for the Entrepreneur in You

10+ mins

Anecdotes From This Investor-turned-entrepreneur

In an interview with Smart CEO, Bala Parthasarathy, serial entrepreneur and investor, takes us through the various stages of his professional life, the lessons he has learnt and unlearnt along the way and his plans for MoneyTap, a consumer credit, fintech startup

7 mins

Welding The Gap

While typical technical training institutes take about a year to upskill workers, Ankur Capital and Michael & Susan Dell Foundation-funded Skillveri has designed training simulators which can help welders pick up the skills within two or three weeks. With its R&D efforts focused on developing more such simulators in related fields, the founders are keen on taping India’s manufacturing sector with the hope that they can skill at least one lakh people for the 90 million jobs expected to be created in the next five years

4 mins

Are You Listening To Your Machines?

Augury Systems envisions taking predictive maintenance from large, niche market players to lower end markets by offering it as a SaaS-based solution. The company has developed two solutions, Auguscope Portable Diagnostics, and Halo Continuous Diagnostics, to diagnose machines based on the sounds they make.

3 mins

Making Cell Phone Towers In Space A Reality

Kepler Communications envisions building a satellite-to-satellite communications network in space in the next 20 years. In the road to this goal, it has adopted a handful of near-term and medium-term strategies such as building infrastructure for IoT applications and broadband backhaul apps.

4 mins

Timely Recognition For Thejaswini

Mini Mathew, Publicity Officer, Coconut Development Board, Kochi-11 a model FPO for their farm and home activities

7 mins

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The SmartCEO Magazine Description:

We work closely with entrepreneurs, CEOs and investors in India, to understand their decision-making process when building and scaling new ventures.

Our aim is to enable every budding entrepreneur, middle manager and senior manager to evolve into more efficient, innovative and smarter leaders.