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Power Play: Can Energy Access Entrepreneurs Survive the Relentless March of Grid Electricity in India?
Despite the dubious claims from the Modi administration that India has electrified every village in the country, the march to extend grid infrastructure continues unabated. So where does that leave energy access enterprises? Ananth Aravamudan, Renewable Energy lead at Villgro, explores how these firms can find creative new ways to stay relevant.
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- Energy, Entrepreneurship
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Your Customers Aren’t Data Points: How Social Enterprises Can Avoid Three Impact Investor Red Flags
Villgro President PR Ganapathy has met with hundreds of early-stage social entrepreneurs – and he's noticed that they keep making the same mistakes when seeking impact investing. As part of NextBillion's “Survival Guide for Raising Capital” series, Ganapathy shares three essential tips to help entrepreneurs avoid some common red flags when pitching impact investors.
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- Entrepreneurship, Investing
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Beyond the Metros: Exploring Western and Southern India’s Jaipur, Pune and Thiruvananthapuram
Villgro’s Unconvention|L team and Okapi Research, which are visiting nine tier III cities in India to map regional social enterprise ecosystems and outline highlights and insights. In today’s post they focus on Western and Southern Indian towns Jaipur, Pune and Trivandrum.
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- Entrepreneurship
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- incubators, scale, social business, Villgro
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Mapping Bhopal and Chandigarh: A social enterprise push for jobs, a non-profit culture looks toward business
In second in a series of articles provided by Villgro’s Unconvention|L team and Okapi Research, which are visiting nine tier III cities in India, Lina Sonne explores the potential of Bhopal and Chandigarh. Both cities have strong potential to build on their educational and NGO roots to emerge as regional social enterprise ecosystems hubs.
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- Entrepreneurship
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Beyond the Metros: Nurturing regional social enterprise ecosystems in India
The social enterprise ecosystem, including impact investors, are centered in India’s major metros, a world away from some of the most pressing needs and challenging contexts for entrepreneurship in India. Villgro is hoping to break new ground by organizing a series of 15 single-day Unconvention|L (Unconvention|Local) events across India. The goal is create awareness of, and enthusiasm for, social enterprise in smaller cities across the vast country.
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- Education, Entrepreneurship
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