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Why I Like These Social Enterprises – Part 1

Vishy KurugantiJuly 18, 20113 mins

Pic: courtesy inthroughit.wordpress.com It recently struck me that I should start adding a “What I like about <enterprise x>” section to each post. The section would include social metrics the…

Corruption Cases in the Indian States – a Visual Story

Vishy KurugantiJuly 08, 20111 mins

Our good friends at PRS Legislative Services took 10-years of corruption case data (2000-2009) from National Crime Records Bureau and created a very useful visualization using Tableau. I’ll start off…

Bangalore BOP Salary Trends on Babajob – visualized

Vishy KurugantiJune 27, 20111 mins

A few months ago, we covered Babajob’s 4-year journey – A monster in the making: the Babajob story. During our meeting, Sean Blagsvedt (Babajob CEO) mentioned that they were working on visualizing the…

Some GDP and health trends from Gapminder

Vishy KurugantiJune 22, 20111 mins

A friend alerted me to Gapminder.org a while ago and today I finally sampled some of their amazing datasets via their nifty Trendalyzer. If you haven’t heard of Gapminder, their mission statement…

India's Ashoka Fellows

Vishy KurugantiJune 10, 20113 mins

Pic: courtesy india.ashoka.org [Editor’s Note: Last month, I sat down with Solomon Prakash for the first of what promises to be many more interesting conversations. Solomon is a serial social…

A miracle called Kathewadi

Vishy KurugantiMay 19, 20112 mins

Store in Kathewadi: operates on honor system with no cashier Last month I had an interesting chat with a former SF Bay Area venture capitalist (Mahesh) who relocated to Hyderabad 3 years ago. He…

Boiling the social enterprise ocean

Vishy KurugantiMay 17, 20115 mins

Pic: courtesy forbes.com [Editor’s Note: Alternate title for this post: What this blog is about (Version 2.0).] Two months into my new gig, my view into the world of social enterprises is getting a…

Top 15 Social Enterprise Aphorisms

Vishy KurugantiMay 16, 20111 mins

My first reaction on seeing this (Top 100 Social Enterprise Truths) post from Pop-Up Social Enterprise Think Tank’s: What! Are there so many? My second reaction, halfway through my perusal: No way are…

Rurbanization in Gujarat – early signs of success

Vishy KurugantiMay 14, 20112 mins

Preity Zinta a Vibrant Gujarat Summit (Pic courtesy gemslu.blogspot.com) In the run-up to the highly successful Vibrant Gujarat Summit in Jan 2011, Gujarat’s Chief Minister (Narendra Modi…

Thoughts on philanthropy disruption

Vishy KurugantiMay 13, 20112 mins

World’s Top 2 Philanthropists posing a rare casual look (Pic: courtesy topnews.net.nz) Two panel discussions at Sankalp Forum 2011, both on impact investing, provided food for thought. One of them…

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