From the Jaaga Startup Lounge: thoughts on adressing timely customer payment

In a recent discussion with some of our startups at Jaaga a topic that came up was cash flow. Specifically, how to ensure timely payment by clients.

Jagriti Yatra Day 14: Barefoot College and Bunker Roy

“Don’t think that we are doing social work. We are doing political work. Anytime you are changing mindsets you are working in politics. If I go into a village and everyone is happy with what I’m doing, then I’m doing something wrong.”

Jagriti Yatra Day 15: The End in Ahmedabad

It was sunny in Ahdmedabad yesterday. The Yatris arrived in Gandhinagar and were shuttled in busses to the shady grove surrounding the house where Mahatma Gandhi lived. It was a simple house, as one would expect from the man who personified simplicity and…

Jaaga Startup: Founders Speak

Last weekend we at hosted a lovely evening with three founders — Sean Blagesvedt of Babajob.com, Pratiba Sastry of Microsoft Ventures and Kranthi M, UXD Labs, moderated by Dr. Tej Pochiraju. Catch the highlights of the Panel and party after in this video:

Jagriti Yatra Day 5: Aravind Eye Care

It was eight o’clock, 10 hours behind schedule, when we pulled into Madurai, the town of temples. But it was not the temples we were there to see. Or at least, not the religious temples. Rather we pulled into an eye hospital, Aravind Eye Care, the most famous eye…

Jagriti Yatra Day 8: Gram Vikas (and Shit)

“Our trees, which we were so proud of, are down, but our spirits are not!” started Joe. We were in rural Orissa on New Year’s Eve meeting with Joe, the director of Gram Vikas. Joe, originally from Kerala, had come to Orissa in 1971 after another cyclone…

Jagriti Yatra Day 13: Goonj in Delhi

Goonj is a fantastic company located in the capital city.

Anshu, the founder of Goonj, first realized the importance of textiles after meeting a man who was begging not for food but for clothing. Why was clothing the most important thing…

Data release: Time it takes to do Self-Paced Courses

At Jaaga Study, we have 16 students working on different courses on Web and Mobile development. This release aims at showing how different students, studying in the same environment, do these courses. This is probably the first work on…

Jagriti Yatra Day 11–12: Deoria, UP (Village Stay)

Not fully recovered from train sickness, I arrived yesterday in very rural UP, Deoria. Only three hours from the Nepali border, it was cold. We could see our breath before us like a white omen for the chilly night to come as we marched…