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First Light NewsWire: March 1
Mar 1Hindustan Times picks up both Milaap and MadRat Games: Until two years ago, each time Ponnumani Palanivel, a mentally challenged 19-year-old woman in Tamil Nadu’s Musiri village, wanted to use the bathroom, she waited until either her mother Sivakami, a wage labourer, or her father, a loader at construction sites, came home. They escorted her outdoors [...]
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First Light Newswire: St. Valentine’s Day edition
Feb 14Lots of catch-up reading this week: HCL Founder Shiv Nadar on the future of education in India Economic Times (via @firefishinc) … a teacher, who has just joined the profession, gets a pay higher than the joining salary of an IAS officer. A schoolteacher draws more than the joining salary at HCL. So they are [...]
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Lessons from entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs
Feb 7Last week, Good magazine interviewed seven all-star social entrepreneurs. At the very bottom of the interview, they get to the good stuff: “Do you have any ‘lessons learned’ [sic] to share with people who are thinking of creating a social enterprise?” The answers are gems: Lesson 1: Listen to your customers Get on the ground and listen to the [...]
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