One of Saath’s biggest supporters is an organization in England called the British Asian Trust. HRH Prince Charles spoke at a recent BAT gala and referenced Saath’s Umeed project. Check out the excerpt from the speech below and read about the event here: http://bit.ly/hnJWKz. Awesome work by Saath & Umeed and of course, all of Read More
This February, I was invited to speak at Wharton’s Entrepreneurship Conference and on a Chicago Booth panel on Offsite Development, on behalf of Dashfire. My panelists were impressive: Doejo and MidVentures at Booth; and Smarter Agent and Punchh at Wharton. The audience was engaged, and as MBAs, super bright. The panels discussed a variety of start-up topics, but Read More
All good things must come to an end, right? I hope that’s not the case for microfinance even after the industry endured a tumultuous 6 month stretch. A wave of farmer suicides in India were attributed to unbearable debt obligations funded by micro loans from microfinance institutions (MFIs). Among those implicated was SKS, the darling NGO-turned-publicly-traded-and-extremely-profitable MFI. Read More