Start Up! is an incubator, angel investor and consultant to social entrepreneurs. We launch, strengthen, and scale social ventures. What We Do As angel investors, we invest non-financial resources to incubate seed and early stage social enterprises. Our investments of time and expertise are geared to put ventures quickly on their feet and make them [...]
If you are a young professional eager for an opportunity to work with dynamic social entrepreneurs, innovative business models, and to apply your skills in a meaningful way, the new Piramal Fellowship for Sustainable Business is open for applications for an exciting two year fellowship. The inaugural fellowship class will work with social enterprises [...]
The Jubilant Bhartia Foundation, part of the Jubilant Bhartia Group, the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, an affiliate organization of the World Economic Forum, are inviting applications for the India Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2010. Start Up! is managing the outreach and due-diligence efforts for the India Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2010. [...]
Villgro (formerly Rural Innovations Network) is sponsoring a new business plan competition for social entrepreneurs called Wantrapreneur. The competition is specifically aimed at innovations and solutions that benefit the rural poor. Wantrapreneur is all about identifying ideas that have the potential to transform lives and nurturing them to become market-ready products and services. The competition [...]
We’ve been ruminating lately on something that may ruffle a few feathers. It’s about the definition of social entrepreneur. Traditionally, an entrepreneur (the “mainstream” species) is a person who runs an enterprise or a venture. She is an ambitious leader, likely the founder, who is held accountable for the risks and outcomes of the operation. She [...]
This op-ed was submitted by Suresh Pramar, and is a user post. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of TC-I, but we feel that it is important to cultivate opinions from all sides. India like the rest of the world has not escaped the impacts of the current downturn. The sudden rush in [...]
[Article Source : Business Standard] Of the 5 billion medical injections administered in India every year, 62 percent are unsafe – startling figure that brought Marc Koska, inventor of non reusable K1 syringes, to India This is how the article starts – one of the innumerable “startling” facts waiting to jolt the social entrepreneur inside [...]
UnLtd India, the organization that helped develop the Social Entrepreneurship conference that we covered extensively before, is hiring a Communications Coordinator. If you’re savvy with media, writing, and marketing, see below. JOB TITLE : COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR (PART TIME TBA) ORGANISATION: UnLtd India LOCATION: Bandra West, Mumbai PURPOSE: To design, develop and effectively implement UnLtd India’s [...]
Editor’s Note: Guest blogger Lindsay Clinton is an Associate Vice President at Intellecap, where she is the Managing Editor of Beyond Profit and Microfinance Insights. Prior to joining Intellecap, she worked as the Marketing and Communications Director at The White House Project, a women’s leadership organization based in New York City. Lindsay writes a semi-regular [...]
We alerted our readers about Sankalp, and the event is now around the corner! Check back with ThinkChange India as we bring you updates and guest posts straight from the forum. Adrienne Villani and Sujatha Mutthaya from Intellecap provide more background: More than 300 social entrepreneurs, a plethora of international and regional investors, funding agencies, [...]
