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Meera Srikant has been working with publishers and publications since 1993, writing and editing articles, features and stories across topics. She also blogs and writes poems, novels and short stories during leisure. Writing for The Smart CEO since 2010, she is also a classical dancer.

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Meera Srikant Featured in #Special Features

From seed to shoot

Jul 01, 2015

Unitus Seed Fund is laser focused on making early-stage bets on for-profit startups, with potential to make an impact on the masses. In this chat with Dave Richards, co-founder and Managing Partner, we take a peek into

Meera Srikant Featured in #Then & Now

Centum learning’s next frontier

Jun 01, 2015

Centum learning’s next frontier

Sanjeev Duggal, CEO, Centum Learning, is convinced that his company has the ability to enable a widespread social transformation by imparting relevant skills to a young workforce, both in India and Africa

Meera Srikant Featured in #Then & Now

From strength to strength

Jun 01, 2015

Sensing the dynamic changes in the sector, microfinance company Ujjivan has added products, expanded reach and plans to further leverage policy changes for growth

Meera Srikant Featured in #Starting Up

Furniture, on the move

Jun 01, 2015

Furniture, on the move

Ajith Karimpana, founder, Lightbox-backed Furlenco, is convinced that his business model of renting furniture to expats, employed youth and people with moving jobs, has the potential to scale up tremendously

Meera Srikant Featured in #Starting Up

Resolving consumer complaints

Jun 01, 2015

Resolving consumer complaints

Ankur Singla, founder of Akosha, wants to revolutionize the process of resolving consumer complaints, through his platform for B2C and C2B communication. So far this fiscal, it has received 40 lakh consumer queries from several sectors including e-commerce

Meera Srikant Featured in #Starting Up

Making entrepreneurs out of math teachers

Apr 01, 2015

Making entrepreneurs out of math teachers

Unitus-backed CueLearn aspires to evolve into one of India’s premier brands for after-school learning. Beginning with mathematics, the company has developed a unique methodology to impart technology-enabled learning through its teacher-partners based out of their

Meera Srikant Featured in #Starting Up

A business model for budget hotels

Apr 01, 2015

Funded by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Greenoaks Capital and DSG Consumer Partners, OYO rooms, a technology-enabled network of branded cost effective hotel rooms, aims to expand to 1,000 hotel rooms in 25 cities by the end of

Meera Srikant Featured in #Growth Enterprise

A diversified real-estate player

Apr 01, 2015

A diversified real-estate player

Isha Homes, has grown to touch revenue of Rs. 90 crore last fiscal. With a careful eye for gaps in the segment, the real estate firm has diversified into service apartments, property care and even backward integration into manufacturing bricks

Meera Srikant Featured in #Internet #Retail #Technology - Products #The Magazine #Entrepreneurship

Simplifying payments for online sellers

Mar 01, 2015

Simplifying payments for online sellers

Kalaari Capital and Blume Ventures-funded Instamojo provides online sellers an easy-to-adopt method to collect payments online. Moreover, it requires no technology skills to set it up

Blume Ventures Instamojo Kalaari Capital online payments

Meera Srikant Featured in #Internet #Retail #Entrepreneurship #Starting Up

Identifying A niche e-commerce segment

Mar 01, 2015

Identifying A niche e-commerce segment

Pankaj Garg founded DailyObjects.com, an e-commerce player focused almost entirely on selling its own brand of smartphone cases. The Seedfund portfolio company has already broken even and is now ready to scale to the next level

DailyObjects e-commerce Seedfund