In the high-tech electronic security business, Nirvana Mahase is very aware that female entrepreneurs aren’t so common and aren’t always taken seriously. “You have to work hard to be heard,” she says. “Sometimes clients prefer to deal with males. They find them more reassuring in this type of business.”
Some of the experience that Mahase says has served her well to this day was acquired as a schoolgirl, when she took advantage of excess quantities of “school stuff” in her home, offering them to classmates at competitive prices. Twenty years later,
