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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…

Applying Einstein Principle to the Social Entrepreneurship Definition

Vishy KurugantiDecember 03, 20131 mins

A scientific theory should be as simple as possible, but no simpler. – Albert Einstein As I was cleaning out some bookmarks on my wife’s laptop (which I occasionally use when I need to use Powerpoint…

Announcing Tata Social Enterprise Challenge

Vishy KurugantiDecember 18, 20121 mins

2012 has been the year of social enterprise challenges and social enterprise incubators in India. The exciting addition to the former is Tata Group’s announcement of the Tata Social Enterprise…

A development economist's journey to parallel social entrepreneur

Vishy KurugantiJuly 24, 20126 mins

Pic: courtesy aspenideas.org [Editor’s Note: The publishing delay of this post is a deeply personal reminder on the need for an “editor” hat — even for a one-person blogging organization. A partial…

Greatest Social Entrepreneurs of All Time?

Vishy KurugantiJuly 09, 20124 mins

Another day. Another list. Not.Going.To.Get.Worked.Up.This.Time. (Hint: my reaction to the Forbes list of 30 social entrepreneurs) But seriously there’s nothing to get worked up about a “greatest of…

Taking greed off the table

Vishy KurugantiJune 25, 20122 mins

Pic: courtesy nonprofituniversityblog.org In a recent Business Standard article, How Janalakshi got to the top, the following quote from its chairman Ramesh Ramanathan caught my attention. “As a…

List of Social Enterprises in Bangalore

Vishy KurugantiJune 21, 20129 mins

Pic: courtesy usmansheikh.com This list has been on my todo list for a while 🙂 but a glance at the search query logs last month told me that an incomplete list (sooner) might be better than a perfect…

Villgro launches high-touch training program for social entrepreneurs

Vishy KurugantiJune 19, 20123 mins

Logo courtesy villgro.org Villgro, Chennai-based incubator and seed impact investor, announces the launch of a high-touch mentorship and training program (called SEED) for social entrepreneurs. They…

Why some blog posts have a longer gestation period

Vishy KurugantiApril 23, 20123 mins

[Editor’s Note: I couldn’t make up my mind on where to publish this post. Taking the easy way out by first publishing it on uLaaR and now here.] Pic: courtesy jamiecarie.com Years ago, during my days…

TechSangam turns one year and 17 days old

Vishy KurugantiMarch 29, 20124 mins

Pic: courtesy eqmdallas.com March 3, 2011 was my last day with Adobe India. Eight days later I wrote the first TechSangam post – Evolution of the human race – an inspiration post based on Arthur C…

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