
FF Daily #475: Think like an entrepreneur
September 15, 2021: Covid strikes education; The line between failure and fraud; Divine signs
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September 15, 2021: Covid strikes education; The line between failure and fraud; Divine signs

A message for social change-makers seeking ‘impact on scale’ even as sources of funding dry up: Stay focused on the purpose (the doughnut) and not the scale and brand of your organisation (the hole). Innovate. And learn to be a catalyst

Across Maharashtra, fresh farm produce was rotting after supply chains were disrupted by the national lockdown. The local administration in one of the districts offered a window of opportunity to small farmers’ collectives to build a farm-to-home model—and dramatically turn the tide

Entrepreneurial leaders like Medtronic Labs’ Omar Ishrak and Khan Academy’s Salman Khan are showing how low-cost, disruptive, local solutions can open up new opportunities in emerging markets

Notes on being anti-fragile from the middle of nowhere, a former Catholic priest and a private equity investor

Who is my product for? What is my real goal? A relentless focus on these two questions allowed Forus Health to develop a low-cost, sturdy device to detect preventable blindness. This extract from Soum Paul’s book ‘Flight of the Unicorns’ tells the founders’ story

This Week: Finding purpose, reclaiming the social aspect of work for office-less workers, the rise of Asian tech firms, and Internet trends 2017

This Week: Grand challenges, collective ingenuity, building personal brands, procrastination and more

Endless growth, the goal of a Western template of business, is not sustainable. A characteristically Indian model would be to make profit while being mindful of the impact of business on society

What change makers can do to increase the impact of their enterprises in uplifting the lives of people at the bottom of the pyramid
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