The Global Social Venture Competition, a MBA social venture competition that partners several different universities around the world, wrapped up this past weekend at UC Berkeley Haas Business School.   The GSVC is one of the most competitive gatherings in the…

Are you a social entrepreneur looking to take your vision and organization to the next level?  Dasra, an organization working to strengthen the effectiveness of socially based, non profit organizations is inviting applications from social enterprises or social-purpose organizations,
with a…

Last night in my Social Venture Capital class, my professor said something that I found interesting.  With regard to requirement of many social VCs for their portfolio companies to make market comparable returns, he explained it as the following:

We want…

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Cheryl Dorsey is the President of Echoing Green, a leading global nonprofit which…

The ThinkChange India team is proud to introduce Shivam as one of our new part-time bloggers. A quick introduction of Shivam:

Shivam Srivastava is currently a WiMAX systems engineer at Motorola, Inc, where he designs and deploys wireless networks for rural…

Day 2

The second day started off by getting down to business immediately. Madhav Chavan of Pratham was the first speaker and his mandate was to enlighten the gathering on “How to scale up an organization?”. It really was a treat listening…

Yesterday, Acumen Fund’s Chief Investment Officer Brian Trelstad came to NYU to conduct a live case study on a real company that Acumen Fund invested in, in an effort to educate MBA and other students on the investing strategy and process…

At several points during his presentation at MIT yesterday, Nicholas Negroponte mentioned prominent figures in passing – Kofi Annan, Steve Jobs, the Prime Ministers and Presidents of dozens of countries – but at no point did I think he was…

Here is a recap of the major investment activity in India’s social venture space and also traditional investment that will directly affect the poor:

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• Chennai based Equitas will secure $12.5 million in funding from two private equity firms over the…