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Is Rangsutra the only recent Social Enterprise exit?

Vishy KurugantiJune 18, 20122 mins

Sumita Ghose (Rangsutra’s Founder/CEO) Put an impact investor on a panel at a social enterprise conference and you can be assured of at least two quotes. “There just aren’t enough quality social…

Samhita Academy: trailblazing the RTE path years before it became a law

Vishy KurugantiJune 17, 20124 mins

[Editor’s Note: Back in October, 2011 I visited the campus of an innovative Bangalore school (Samhita Academy) and learnt about Samhita’s unique model from Aparna Goenka. Aparna (Infosys alumnus) is…

Ford Foundation supported Farmers Cooperative seeks Head of Marketing

Vishy KurugantiJune 12, 20122 mins

[Editor’s Note: Last week I was invited by Dr. Trilochan Sastry to attend the Anantpur Cooperative Federation Annual General Meeting. The meeting, held at the cooperative-owned groundnut processing…

Two bright lights in India's Impact Investing Landscape

Vishy KurugantiJune 05, 20122 mins

Pic: courtesy wikia.com The two bright lights in India’s impact investing landscape are Harish Hande’s $10 million fund for sustainable energy enterprises and Khosla Impact. Sustainable Energy Fund…

A page each from Harish Hande and Naveen Krishna

Vishy KurugantiMay 31, 20123 mins

A vegetable cart seller in Bangalore (Pic: courtesy blog.travelpod.com) Recently, Harish Hande wrote a cogent and passionate article on Forbes India. The main point in his article is that businesses…

Understanding moral hazards, moral imperatives and informal insurance

Vishy KurugantiMay 31, 20123 mins

I recently re-read Chapter 6 of Poor Economics (Barefoot Hedge-Fund Managers) because I was looking for a savings intervention RCT. I haven’t found that RCT yet but a related story — about how the…

Rockefeller Foundation Innovation Challenge 2012 – Farming, Irrigation and Data

Vishy KurugantiMay 16, 20122 mins

Logo: courtesy rockefellerfoundation.org Rockefeller Foundation turns 100 in 2013. To mark its centennial, they are seeking knowledge and innovation ideas that will solve problems for the next 10…

This week in Indian Social Enterprise Jobs – Volume 2

Vishy KurugantiMay 07, 20122 mins

Pic: courtesy myboxad.com A few months ago, I wrote Social Enterprise Jobs in India – Who’s Hiring – a first look at the social enterprise job landscape in India. Since then, I’ve been on the lookout…

Ten Tips for Indian Edupreneurs

Vishy KurugantiMay 07, 20123 mins

Primary school education in rural India (Pic: courtesy technorati.com) Aspiring MBA students in urban India (Pic: courtesy mbaindia.net) [Editor’s Note: Srikanth Jadcherla is the CEO of California and…

Putting Bangalore’s Mayoral Election in Perspective

Vishy KurugantiApril 27, 20126 mins

Bangalore’s newly minted mayor (Venkatesh Murthy) and outgoing mayor (Sharadamma) - Pic courtesy thethindu.com [Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on Namma Bengaluru Foundation‘s…

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