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Anand Kumar's Super 30 Journey

Vishy KurugantiMay 11, 20114 mins

Anand Kumar speaking about his journey (Source: Sankalp Forum 2011)Well organized conferences usually feature popular speakers towards the start and end of the day. The penultimate session at Sankalp…

Selected Shorts from Sankalp Forum 2011 (Day 2)

Vishy KurugantiMay 10, 201110 mins

[Editor’s Note: The title of this post is a tribute to the popular NPR/PRI radio program Selected Shorts. This post is a sampling of of tweets that I found interesting on day#2. The list could have…

A fresh look at the migration narrative

Vishy KurugantiMay 10, 20113 mins

Pic: courtesy hummingbirdworld.com During one of the panel discussions at last week’s Sankalp Forum, an interesting conversation emerged. Two early-stage VCs (Seed Fund’s Mahesh Murthy and Kae Capital…

If I was looking for inspiration…I found it at Sankalp Forum

Vishy KurugantiMay 09, 20114 mins

Pic: courtesy newhottopics.blogspot.com When I was interviewing Sean Blagsvedt for this post, he casually asked if I was attending Sankalp Forum. “Say, what forum??” was my response. A subsequent…

Defining Social Entrepreneurship

Vishy KurugantiMay 04, 20115 mins

Pic: courtesy mccombs.utexas.edu The smart folks over at Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) have made a strong case for a rigorous definition of social entrepreneurship. They argue that social…

Khata Kholo Har Darwaza Kholo – Eko's Branchless Banking (Part 1)

Vishy KurugantiMay 01, 20114 mins

When you hear “no-frills banking” think of a place like this (Pic: courtesy cgap.org) [Editor’s Note: A few weeks ago I had an engaging phone conversation with Abhishek Sinha, co-founder and CEO of…

Banking for India's Domestic Migrants

Vishy KurugantiApril 28, 20112 mins

India’s 100 million strong domestic migrants contribute a whopping 10% of its GDP. As I covered in The Twentyfirst Century Kabuliwalas of India, domestic migrants are one of the missing links in India…

A monster in the making: the Babajob story

Vishy KurugantiApril 27, 20115 mins

[Editor’s Note: Last week, I drove down to Richmond Town, Bangalore to interview Sean Blagsvedt, Founder & CEO of Babajob. Babajob’s office is in the 3rd floor of an apartment-style commercial…

The Twentyfirst Century Kabuliwalas of India

Vishy KurugantiApril 19, 20114 mins

Pic: courtesy upperstall.com Rabindranath Tagore (Bengali poet, novelist, playwright, painter and musician) is renowned for so many works of art that it seems almost criminal to dwell on a personal…

No frills traveling MBA program from TREES

Vishy KurugantiApril 15, 20113 mins

The cost of a two-year MBA program at a top-tier MBA school in India (think IIMs and XLRI) will burn 14 lakhs in your wallet. For Tier 2 MBA schools, the cost plummets to a range between 3 and 5 lakhs…

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