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Re: LTV > CPA

Rishabh Kaul — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 12:00:18 -0000

All this is fine....but..just one jew in Afghanistan? This guy? http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Re: http://estromberg.com/post/4778188872

Rishabh Kaul — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:39:13 -0000

Great post and you pretty much cover it all. One thing I would like to add though, which you briefly highlighted is, dazzle them with your research and ideas.

So if you shoot a mail first, giving them 5 ideas they should consider. What you feel they can do better and maybe 3 points on how to go about it. It should surely catch their attention.

Re: Five Reasons Why Corporations Must Move From Social Responsibility to Social Innovation

Rishabh Kaul — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 12:38:00 -0000

One other name apart from GE that comes to my mind is IBM, with their Smarter Planet initiatives.

Re: 130 Ways to Fund Your Social Venture

Rishabh Kaul — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 17:16:15 -0000

Ramit Sethi's I Will Teach You to Be Rich Scholarship might be an interesting add to this list. He gives away 2500 USD to students pursuing a cause.

Re: 5 ways to rock at networking, etcetera, etcetera.

Rishabh Kaul — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 04:13:11 -0000

Awesome. Here's some more.

1.Add the word "social" to everything you do, it's obvious why this would work, no? One would instantly become a magnet, until others jump on this bandwagon.
2.Start evangelizing everything which is remotely cool. The word "enthusiast" has reached it's limit. Evangelism is the last refuge of the enthusiast.
3.Quote Seth Godin/Hugh Macleod when ever you can to impress people who you encounter the first time.

Re: Small is Beautiful, Small is Cheap, But Do the Poor Care? | Blog | NextBillion.net | Development through Enterprise

Rishabh Kaul — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 14:39:16 -0000

Prof Aneel Karnani of UMich, talks in his post Romanticizing the Poor (published in SSI and leading to a huge debate between him and Late CK Prahlad on this blog) about how a bad economical decision by the poor harms them much more than the rich. Remember, you can sell tobacco in sachets too.

He speaks about how it is important not only how you market it but also what you market.

I suggest giving it a read.

Re: Why Are Celebrities in India Obsessed with Twitter?

Rishabh Kaul — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 12:39:17 -0000

You say that the top twitter users in India are celebrities, but maybe that is the case anywhere else in the world too.

Take a look at most followed twitter users in the world http://twittercounter.com/p.... Everyone till 14 is a celebrity, 15th is CNN followed by some more celebrities.

One point which I sort of didnt agree with was celebrities using twitter to directly engage with the masses. Most Indian celebrities (in fact most celebrities anywhere) still treat twitter as a broadcasting tool. Check out Shahid Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor (whose profile is fake I presume) Padukone etc, no replies.

Only a handful actually engage, and those too aren't the A-list celebs, like Gul Panag.

What do you think?

Re: Stories from Sarvajal's Turf

Rishabh Kaul — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 06:01:00 -0000

I think it's agreed by one and all that the moment you sell something, no matter what the price, the poorest of the poor will find it extremely challenging to afford it.

So in that regard, one cannot ignore the role of philantrophy/aid, which are indeed essential to such sectors.

However, it doesn't belittle the work companies like Sarvajal are doing because they are providing superior service, be it in terms of delivery or quality of water and targeting communities that didn't have access to clean water and (even those who were paying a far greater price). With a model like this they are going deeper into the pyramid if not the very bottom.

A little besides the point, but they have also created around 500 jobs through their 130+ franchisees

Re: Students: Start Your Social Ventures Today!

Rishabh Kaul — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:30:00 -0000

Dear Moses,

The Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership along with the alumni association at my college BITS, Pilani, in India started a course last semester called Sparks New Ventures which helped students launch their start-ups and provided them with mentoring and avenues for funding. Around 30 students enrolled for the class and some pretty interesting ideas emerged from that.

Re: Using Knowledge from the Informal Economy to Create Sustainable Ventures

Rishabh Kaul — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:14:00 -0000

Karthick,

Thanks a lot for sharing your thoughts. As far as the invention is concerned, it still reduces the human effort to a considerable extent since one can wash all the clothes at once, instead of the manual process where one washes the clothes one by one.

It saves on electricity since its mechanical and hence also sustainable and doesn't require any resources apart from human resources (and the detergent I suppose).

And yes, health care and transport have tremendous opportunities in villages, but so does FMCG and energy and a lot of other sectors if priced appropriately.

Re: Staff Transitions: The NextBillion Team Continues to Evolve

Rishabh Kaul — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:44:00 -0000

Everybody,

Thank you for the very warm welcome. I hope to keep you engaged through interesting discussions about the BoP.

Re: "Is It Right to Have The Poor Pay?"

Rishabh Kaul — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:53:00 -0000

Another example of the tiering pricing: I worked at LV Prasad eye hospital this summer and they have been practicing cross subsidy for ages and it's been working for them. From what I hear 75% of their primary care centers have been able to sustain themselves and the rest 25% of them which aren't able to sustain are being run from the money that the remaining 75% get. While they have been getting sufficient grants, they still charge based on affordability.

Re: Mee Nathuram Godse Boltoy - I am Nathuram Godse, Speaking

Rishabh Kaul — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:00:12 -0000

Its a gripping play. The English drama club at our college staged it (I happened to play a little cameo in it too) a couple of years ago. We obviously translated the thing into english, but I remember seeing the marathi version on video

Re: Squirm

Rishabh Kaul — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:05:23 -0000

@vassar kid: Are you who I think you are :P, and thanks for the info. H Bomb eh, sounds nice, though a little tacky.

@shalini: Pilani mein maa behan kar denge

@supt: yup, always there to remind us all where we stand

Re: The Day Facebook Changed Forever: Messages to Become Public By Default (UPDATED)

Rishabh Kaul — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:27:10 -0000

Whoa this is big news, for the time being at least.

Hopefully the best case scenario will pwn the worst care scenario.

I think companies should stick to their core competencies. Though its to early to predict how the public is going to react to this, I for one am a little bit skeptical for from analysis point of view sure this seems like a great move, but from a more personal point of view, I am not too sure if I want my boss looking at what I have been upto. Or worse, my mother :)

FB definitely has the advantage and one gets the feeling that it might lose it due to this move. Though I am merely speculating.

Oh and BTW, the facebook blog link that you shared at the beginning of the post is broken.

Re: The Day Facebook Changed Forever: Messages to Become Public By Default (UPDATED)

Rishabh Kaul — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:25:36 -0000

Whoa this is big news, for the time being at least.

Hopefully the best case scenario will pwn the worst care scenario. I think companies should stick to their core competencies. Though its to earl to predict how the public is going to react to this, I for one am a little bit skeptical for from analytics point of view sure this seems like a great move, but from a more personal point of view, I am not too sure if I want my boss looking at what I have been upto. Or worse, my mother :)

Oh and BTW, the facebook blog link that you shared at the beginning of the post is broken.

Re: My Friend Sancho-hardly a review

Rishabh Kaul — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:19:26 -0000

@pandey: sure

@ankur: yes, well, i sorta ignored it, but yeah, it was a good read.

Re: First few days at work

Rishabh Kaul — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:13:05 -0000

Basic idea yes. The thought a little more about it from then onwards

Re: First few days at work

Rishabh Kaul — Fri, 22 May 2009 03:13:34 -0000

Andy:Tera number bhi aayega boss.

Pandey: Will update more, already have tons of drafts for blog posts piled up. Some info on the other hand, as you can imagine is classified so cant openly talk about it.

Re: How Can We Harness the Talent and Energy Available in this Space?

Rishabh Kaul — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:48:00 -0000

Sorry for the typo Tayo*

Re: How Can We Harness the Talent and Energy Available in this Space?

Rishabh Kaul — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:28:00 -0000

Hi Tao,

First off, you've stressed on a very important point.

I remember when Seth Godin started his internship program he created a community for the applicants and right after he selected his bunch he asked people who were in need of dynamic/innovative people around to check out the FB community of the applicants which was indeed a powerhouse of talent.

Sure he didn't really go ahead and make sure they got placed somewhere, but it showed that he understood that beyond a point you can't really use objective means to select applicants.

Re: Piece of Paper - Tip #25: Earn more money using your God-given skills

Rishabh Kaul — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:42:20 -0000

Hi,

My name is Rishabh Kaul. I'm working with Ramit Sethi of iwillteachyoutoberich.com and he pointed me to your site (and pointed out that you've linked to iwillteachyoutoberich before).

He wanted to share a couple of things with you including a personal video, could you mail me back so that I can send you the link. Its password protected,

Thanks,

Rishabh

Re: Is Google using the I Will Teach You To Be Rich approach with Social Networking?

Rishabh Kaul — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:56:59 -0000

Hi Nels,

My name is Rishabh and I am working with Ramit. He was extremely happy to know that you linked back to his blog. He wanted to me share some stuff with you to thank you. Could you mail me back?

Regards,
Rishabh

P.S: I couldn't find any contact form or an email address and hence used this as a last resort.

Re: Sizzling Top 25 Indian Web Startups

Rishabh Kaul — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:06:24 -0000

I doubt if Rediff should be on the list, its 12 years old, hardly a startup. But then depends on your definition of a startup

Re: Nielsen’s List of Bloggers and Influentials Who Made a Mark in 2008

Rishabh Kaul — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:32:48 -0000

Awesome. Congrats