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Oh Crap! Where's the One Potty Per Household Project?

Vishy KurugantiJune 14, 20113 mins

[Editor’s Note: Last week, I spent a few hours with the Arghyam management team – Sunita Nadhamuni (CEO) and Vijay Krishna (Director, R&D and head of India Water Portal (one of Arghyam’s key offerings…

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…

Rural BPO Desicrew lands Series A funding

Vishy KurugantiMay 27, 20112 mins

Rural BPO: career opportunity for the educated villager (Pic: courtesy outsourceportfolio.com) [Editor’s Note: I finally caught up with Rajiv Kuchhal in person yesterday. Rajiv is an angel investor…

Creating a killer user experience for the MFI field agents

Vishy KurugantiMay 25, 20115 mins

[Editor’s Note: Earlier this week, I spent a few hours chatting with Sameer Segal at his cozy rooftop office digs in HSR Layout. Sameer is the Founder & CEO of one-year old Artoo, a startup with a…

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…

Khata Kholo Har Darwaza Kholo – Eko's Branchless Banking (Part 2)

Vishy KurugantiMay 12, 20113 mins

This is part 2 of our coverage on Eko‘s Branchless Banking solution play (Part 1 is here). Eko-SBI-Migrants = Win-Win-Win As you may recall from our earlier analysis (Banking for India’s Domestic…

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