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Investing | TechSangam
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Social Enterprises. India. Social Entrepreneurs. RSS feed for this section. World Bank India Development Marketplace: Finalist Review Part 2. May 30, 2013. Comments { 0 }. World Bank India Development Marketplace: Finalist Review Part 1. May 29, 2013. Comments { 2 }. Artha Platform, closed social enterprise version of Angel List, announces Challenge. May 28, 2013. This post was supposed to be about Artha Venture Challenge (AVC) – a call for applications from social ventures across India operating i...
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Watsan | TechSangam
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Social Enterprises. India. Social Entrepreneurs. RSS feed for this section. Why Bill Gates’s Toilet of the Future might be too First Worldy. March 9, 2014. Comments { 0 }. Less Jugaad, More Real Innovation. June 10, 2013. Comments { 2 }. House of Dignity: Mighty Madiath’s Life Mission. March 25, 2013. Gram Vikas (GV) is my favorite Orissa organization. Heck, if I ever curated a Top 5 pan-India list, it would probably be in it. When I asked Bangalore’s rainwater harvesting guru for his Top 1...At some poi...
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Select moments in TechSangam's brief history | TechSangam
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Social Enterprises. India. Social Entrepreneurs. Select moments in TechSangam’s brief history. February 3, 2014. 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 please! There’s a bit of an anti-climax so all the more reason to wait! In June 2013, I announced my full-time foray into an entrepreneurial venture. The BlogAdda email also had this exhortation.
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Say hello to TechSangam 2.0 | TechSangam
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Social Enterprises. India. Social Entrepreneurs. Say hello to TechSangam 2.0. February 16, 2014. Pic courtesy bokardo.com. When I moved to Bangalore in 2008, I looked around for the “Indian TechCrunch”. There wasn’t one. Single or multiple authors. For the briefest of periods, I mulled over this question. The dominant optimist in me thought I was a natural born writer. It would only be a matter of time before I would start cranking out posts on a daily frequency and. since there would be a to...In Aug 20...
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John Cochrane's Mooconomics | TechSangam
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Social Enterprises. India. Social Entrepreneurs. John Cochrane’s Mooconomics. February 11, 2014. John Cochrane, pic courtesy his blog. Of this post but since you probably won’t, the key points are excerpted below.]. 1: Moocs are a high fixed-cost business. Putting a class up in a mooc is not quite as much work as writing a textbook, but it’s nowhere near as easy as teaching a new class. If you’re tempted, beware! 2: Why is it high fixed-cost? There is a good analogy between textbook publishing and mooc c...
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Embracing the "tech" in TechSangam | TechSangam
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Social Enterprises. India. Social Entrepreneurs. Embracing the “tech” in TechSangam. February 19, 2014. I’m a huge fan of Marc Andreessen. I won’t wax eloquent about Andreessen but draw attention to his 2011 WSJ article Why software is eating the world. The article (specifically the title/quote) strongly resonated with me. It continues to influence my world view of the type of companies effecting dramatic changes in the world. Pic courtesy fnal.gov. He asked an interesting question today. Following the r...
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ISB iDiya calling all social entrepreneurs | TechSangam
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Social Enterprises. India. Social Entrepreneurs. ISB iDiya calling all social entrepreneurs. August 19, 2014. Calling all social impact ideas and innovations! 10 best ideas get a week-long all-expenses-paid bootcamp to ISB. Cash reward of Rs 2 Lakhs for winner. Over a crore of seed funding. Make the difference you have always wanted to by submitting your proposal at https:/ events.isb.edu/idiya/. Application Deadline : 15th Sep 2014. Limited Buddies available so sign up now! View all posts by vishy →.
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Education | TechSangam
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Social Enterprises. India. Social Entrepreneurs. RSS feed for this section. More coaching less schooling. May 22, 2016. IITs to release 50 years of solved JEE Question Papers! India’s Human Resources Department (akin to Department of Education in US and elsewhere) made this decision after consultation with the IITs purportedly to combat the scourge of Kota coaching academies. This story popped up in my Facebook timeline and my friend Himanshu Nautiyal had this […]. Comments { 0 }. February 11, 2014.
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Behold the unassuming Ugly Indian | TechSangam
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Social Enterprises. India. Social Entrepreneurs. Behold the unassuming Ugly Indian. August 17, 2014. Behold the Ugly Indian. Kaam Chalu Mooh Bandh. You can’t change your country. You can’t change your city. Be able to change your neighborhood. Yes – a 50-100 meter stretch of something (a road, a wall, a sidewalk, a public loo, and hot off the press,. Behold the mighty spotfix! The Ugly Indian has been on my radar since early 2011. This seminal spot fix. But TUI has ALREADY GONE NATIONAL! Indians from oth...
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General | TechSangam
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Social Enterprises. India. Social Entrepreneurs. RSS feed for this section. Why doing good with tech is hard. August 17, 2016. Comments { 0 }. Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship: 2014. March 6, 2014. Comments { 0 }. Sankalp Unconvention Entrepreneur Scholarships 2014. March 6, 2014. 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 you shou...When I mo...
