Entrepreneurship Startups And Innovation

14 results

Sep 18, 2021·Founder Journeys

FF Daily #475: Think like an entrepreneur

September 15, 2021: Covid strikes education; The line between failure and fraud; Divine signs

Sep 21, 2020·Social enterprise

The doughnut and the hole

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

Apr 5, 2020·Founder Journeys

The Satara uprising

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

Dec 30, 2017·Product & Innovation

How to innovate for India

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

Nov 12, 2017·Founder Journeys

The absence of fragility

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

Aug 2, 2017·Founder Journeys

Two questions that led to an innovative device to prevent blindness

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

Jun 11, 2017·Founder Journeys

In pursuit of purpose

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

Mar 26, 2017·Product & Innovation

Cracking wicked problems

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

Aug 14, 2016·Founder Journeys

What is Indian about the Indian entrepreneur?

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

Feb 28, 2016·Social enterprise

Entrepreneurship to improve the world for everyone

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