TechSangam

The Great Gatsby - a newer faster TechSangam

Vishy KurugantiAugust 16, 20202 mins

The TechSangam blog turned nine on March 11, 2020. The milestone passed with nary a fuss because, truth be told, the prolificacy of the early years had morphed into a slow death march towards dormancy…

India needs more non-profit unicorns

Vishy KurugantiAugust 08, 20202 mins

Nextbillion.net, one of my go-to resources in the early years of this blog, has an informative article highlighting the fact that India is woefully short in yet another area — the number of non-profit…

Schwab Foundation's Two Decades of Impact Report

Vishy KurugantiMay 09, 20202 mins

A few times a year, I Google a few variants of “social enterprise news” with the hope of uncovering new kids on the block or some new social impact report. Measuring social impact is hard. For…

Dropping the social in social entrepreneur

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 07, 20161 mins

About 9 months into my TechSangam blogging journey (that would be circa 2012), I was one of the guest bloggers at the Villgro Unconvention 2011. I recall a discussion where panelists were asked to…

Why doing good with tech is hard

Vishy KurugantiAugust 17, 20162 mins

The blog comes alive.. or should I say “starting to flicker” after years. Thanks to my morning Twitter timeline, I read this beautiful piece by Jonathan Stray (computer scientist and investigative…

Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship: 2014

Vishy KurugantiMarch 06, 20144 mins

Pic courtesy skollworldforum.org The Skoll Foundation presents the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship each year to transformative leaders who are disrupting the status quo, driving large-scale…

Sankalp Unconvention Entrepreneur Scholarships 2014

Vishy KurugantiMarch 06, 20141 mins

Sankalp and I go back a long way. Well, not very long but three years. [2011] If I was looking for inspiration.. I found it at Sankalp Forum [2012] Five reasons to be excited about Sankalp [2013] Why…

Say hello to TechSangam 2.0

Vishy KurugantiFebruary 16, 20142 mins

Pic courtesy bokardo.comPic courtesy bokardo.com When I moved to Bangalore in 2008, I looked around for the “Indian TechCrunch”. There wasn’t one. Many single author blogs but no standout — either in…

Select moments in TechSangam's brief history

Vishy KurugantiFebruary 03, 20143 mins

Pic courtesy nofatclips.com Rumors of TechSangam’s demise are greatly exaggerated. This post was meant to be about this. (But DON’T click on that link just yet… indulge me for a few more paragraphs…

Eight defining milestones in India's social enterprise ecosystem

Vishy KurugantiJanuary 25, 20144 mins

[Editor’s Note: This post was 95% complete on Oct 31, 2013. After all, it was largely copy-paste so why did it languish for two months in the Drafts folder? I intended to post a critique of the…

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