11 Successful Business Women and Their 'Pursuit of Happiness'

2. Srijayapriya Balasundaram, Srinidhi Sridharan, Aparrna Sivasubramanian and Akshaya Sivaraman
Age: Early Twenties
Company: Diva Bags
USP: Eco Friendly Jute and Cotton Bags

These four girls were all students of MOP Vaishnav College for Women, in Chennai. MOP organizes a bazaar every year where all entrepreneurs in the college can put up a stall. The four friends decided to put up a stall with eco friendly jute and cotton bags made by a women’s self help group. They bought hand woven bags, customized them and sold them at this bazaar. The feedback that was received was excellent and thus Diva Bags was born. All the four friends are in different parts of the country but still are active to promote the business in their respective areas.

3. Prerna Gupta
Age: 28
Company: Khush
USP: iPhone music App

She had it all that made a perfect life, a degree in economics from Stanford, a dream job. But as she realized that she wasn’t meant for it she left everything and set out to find something different where she could be happier. She started a social networking website initially, though the site was a hit but didn’t work out well over the time. Then came Khush and there was no looking back since then. Khush produces an iPhone music App that has grown to one of the top 20 paid apps.

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