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Social Investing in India: Landscape study & Investor perspective

Posted on November 6, 2014 by dd

India has a rich culture and ecosystem of social enterprises, non-profits and many other social purpose organisations that serve the needs of many segments of society within a vast landscape. However, for a foreign investor looking for impact investing or … Continue reading →

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Give it time #2

Posted on October 31, 2008 by dd

Following through on the last post…as Harry Cohn (1891-1958), film producer is reported to have said: “Give me two years, and I’ll make her an overnight star.” That’s is the story of most successful businesses and people.
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Give it time

Posted on October 30, 2008 by dd

How long does it take to develop a company? Would it motivate you or depress you if we said, at least 5 years? Continue reading →

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India – Entrepreneurship Week, 2-9 February 2008

Posted on February 2, 2008 by dd

A bunch of organisations have got together to celebrate an Entrepreneurship Week starting today. (Here’s the “E-Week” page on the National Entrepreneurship Network website.) The post-independence decades saw business being subsumed by regulation and businesspeople being publicly treated as social … Continue reading →

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