by Essmart | Apr 2, 2012 | Blog, Thoughts and Ideas
Daniel Schnitzer describes the problem that we’re trying to address with Essmart. Inventing is the easy part. The hard part is technology dissemination – getting your product to people who can benefit from it the most. [youtube_sc url=4C-LY9Qlr_0]
by diana | Feb 7, 2012 | Blog, Jan '12 India Trip, Thoughts and Ideas
Shortly after reaching Chennai’s main railway station, I grabbed a pre-paid auto rickshaw to IIT Madras. I had a meeting with Ashutosh Sinha from Villgro Stores. The meeting turned out to be quite thought-provoking. For example, Ashutosh brought up that when you think...
by diana | Feb 2, 2012 | Blog, Jan '12 India Trip, Thoughts and Ideas
I met Grace, the MIT alum I had met in Hubli, at SELCO’s main office in JP Nagar. I always enjoy visiting SELCO. We talked with some people from the SELCO Foundation, which is the arm of SELCO that supports Ujire’s SELCO Labs. I asked a lot of questions about after...
by diana | Jan 28, 2012 | Blog, Field Notes, Jan '12 India Trip, Thoughts and Ideas
Something we’ve learned out here in Pollachi is that warrantees are absolutely necessary. Every customer asks, “Does this come with a warranty?” or “Where can we fix this?” For Essmart, we need to think about having a service center for all of these technologies in...
by diana | Jan 26, 2012 | Blog, Field Notes, Jan '12 India Trip, Thoughts and Ideas
I hopped in my cab at 8:30 am and headed toward meetings at Envirofit, the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, CogKnit, and Koshy’s. But unfortunately (or fortunately, as things tend to always work out), my cab driver and I miscommunicated, and he aimed toward a...
by diana | Jan 25, 2012 | Blog, Field Notes, Jan '12 India Trip, Thoughts and Ideas
Development Dialogue Day 3 kicked off with a special speech by Harish Hande, founder of SELCO. SELCO is well known among India’s social sector, and I use SELCO as a true example of creating partnerships across sectors to build ecosystems that enable all of these other...
