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Prem Sivakumaran is co-founder & CEO of Growth Mechanics, a leadership and entrepreneurship-focused business content company in India. Growth Mechanics publishes The Smart CEO, a publication focused on enabling peer-to-peer knowledge exchange among C-level executives and board members. The platform reaches over 1.2 lakh CXOs across its website, app, print publication & CEO Round Tables, and has featured on the cover India’s leading business leaders/founders from Infosys, Mindtree, Tata Sons, ICICI Bank, Biocon, Yes Bank and several others. In addition of Smart CEO, Growth Mechanics also organises the Startup50 Conference & Awards, an annual event to recognize India’s top 50 startups every year. Startup50 Alumni include Freshdesk, Oyo Rooms, Urban Ladder, Capital Float, Paperboat Beverages, among others. Growth Mechanics’ primary business model revolves around linking CXOs and Brands around engaging content and has worked with India’s leading companies including Mahindra Group, Godrej & Boyce, BASF, Airtel, Tata Docomo, Fiat, IDA Ireland, Yes Bank, Prestige Estates, Frederique Constant, Indian Terrain

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Prem Sivakumaran Featured in #Editors Note

Gearing up for the 2nd edition of Leadership Unplugged

Jan 06, 2020

I begin at least one day a week listening to a podcast. Some of my favourites are Recode Decode, Pivot, Acquired and Exponent. Irrespective of the topic or speakers, these podcasts are…  

Prem Sivakumaran Featured in #Cover Story

A Meditative Approach to Leadership & Decision Making: In Conversation with Kamlesh D. Patel, Global Guide of the Heartfulness Movement

Oct 02, 2019

A Meditative Approach to Leadership & Decision Making: In Conversation with Kamlesh D. Patel, Global Guide of the Heartfulness Movement

We requested 50 leading founders and CEOs to fill up The Smart CEO Questionnaire last year. In there, we had one question that threw out a very surprising response; The question was…  

Prem Sivakumaran Featured in #Editors Note

Announcing Smart CEO’s Startup50 Conference & Awards 2019

Sep 18, 2019

The events team at Smart CEO is gearing up for the 5th Edition of Smart CEO’s Startup50 Conference & Awards scheduled for December 2019. Over the last four years, we’ve…  

Prem Sivakumaran Featured in #Editors Note

Why Exponential Growth is non-intuitive

Nov 26, 2018

Why Exponential Growth is non-intuitive

Prem Sivakumaran, Director, Smart CEO I was recently reading Swiss Businessman & Author, Rolf Dobelli’s The Art of Thinking Clearly, a brilliant book and especially relevant if you’re an entrepreneur…  

Prem Sivakumaran Featured in #Editors Note

Announcing Smart CEO’s Startup50 Conference & Awards 2018

Sep 20, 2018

I write this note, one week after the completion of Leadership Unplugged held at Taj Coromandel, Chennai on Sept 6 & 7, 2018. It was a wonderful platform to meet over 30…  

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Leadership Unplugged by Smart CEO

Jun 26, 2018

Leadership Unplugged by Smart CEO

I begin at least one day a week listening to a talk on TED.com. Irrespective of the topic or speakers, the talks are brilliantly produced. They are succinct, to-the-point…  

Prem Sivakumaran Featured in #Cover Story

5 Rapidly Scaleable Ideas for Entrepreneurs

Jan 09, 2018

5 Rapidly Scaleable Ideas for Entrepreneurs

Through several of our past interviews & insights captured from venture capital data in the US, Europe & Asia, we share with you ideas that VCs in India will absolutely love!&nbsp…  

Entrepreneurship Leadership

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The New ‘Smart CEO’

Jan 09, 2018

The New ‘Smart CEO’

Welcome to the January 2018 edition of Smart CEO. Our regular readers would have noticed the new logo on the magazine’s cover. Recently, we also launched our new website (www.smartceo…  

Prem Sivakumaran Featured in #Consumer Products

RAW Pressery

Dec 26, 2017

RAW Pressery

In Startup50 2017: RAW Pressery, which in a very short time has become India’s No. 1 cold-pressed juice company, offers 26 varieties of cold-press juices to customers in India…  

Prem Sivakumaran Featured in #Agriculture & Agri Tech

EM3 Agri Services

Dec 26, 2017

EM3 Agri Services

In Startup50 2017: EM3 made it to the list, thanks to its product – Samadhan, a FaaS (Farming as a Service) platform that enables technology to reach the farmer in an efficient and…