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
Prem Sivakumaran Featured in #Cover Story
Where there’s traction, Money will follow
May 18, 2016
Deepinder Goyal, founder and CEO, Zomato, shares a great working relationship with investor Sanjeev Bikhchandani of Info Edge for one simple reason: Bikhchandani is more entrepreneur, less investor. And the two of…
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The finer nuances of scaling up a real estate business
May 18, 2016
In conversation with Irfan Razack, chairman and managing director, Prestige Group, one of South India’s leading property developers with interests in residential, commercial, retail, leisure and hospitality sectors Prestige Estates Projects…
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May 18, 2016
Dilipkumar Khandelwal, Managing Director, SAP Labs India, believes the new normal for large companies like SAP will revolve around the mindset to co-innovate with partners, embrace a startup-like culture and…
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8 Unique tactics of highly successful entrepreneurs
May 18, 2016
An entrepreneur’s journey is often about the never-ending pursuit of foreseeing what others do not anticipate. Based on information gathered from interviews with 1300 entrepreneurs, we’ve handpicked for you…
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Venture capital for the selfless
May 18, 2016
Vidya Shah, former CFO of Edelweiss Group and now CEO of EdelGive Foundation, is channelizing all her energy to bring in a venture capital-style funding model to the non-profit sector…
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May 18, 2016
Several of India’s top business leaders – from Mukesh Ambani to Cyrus Mistry – have Zia Mody’s number on speed dial. As founder and senior partner of AZB & Partners, Mody judiciously…
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The Startup CEO Aka The Chief Everything Officer
Apr 04, 2016
The author notes how, when you are a startup CEO, charisma takes a backseat to authentic leadership. He goes on to share some key learnings’ from his stint at AirAsia
Prem Sivakumaran Featured in #Editors Note
Apr 04, 2016
The Internet is filled with all kinds of content. I read TechCrunch for Silicon Valley news, Harvard Business Review for ideas on managing companies, The Economist for commentary on global economics and politics, Medium.com to follow first-hand experiences
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The next two frontiers for Indian entrepreneurship
Feb 05, 2016
While India’s Silicon Valley-inspired startup ecosystem is just brewing, there is no doubt about the fact that our country already bears a rich history in entrepreneurship; Remember how Marwari and…
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The Smart CEO Questionnaire: Shruti Shibulal
Feb 05, 2016
The Smart CEO Questionnaire is a series of questions aimed at helping our readers understand the thought process of an entrepreneur or CEO, their areas of passion and the finer nuances of his or her management style. For example, we
