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Presenting at the 2013 Dell Social Innovation Challenge finals

Presenting at the 2013 Dell Social Innovation Challenge finals

Diana and I recently got back from Austin, Texas, where we attended our second Dell Social Innovation Challenge finalist weekend. Although this time, we were sitting on the other side of the fence. DSIC has a tradition of bringing back the previous year’s winner as a judge,

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Help us open our second hub!

Help us open our second hub!

We’re excited to launch our first crowd funding campaign on Indiegogo!  We’ve been excited about how our model has been working in Pollachi, Tamil Nadu, and we’re ready to take on the challenge of scaling to a new, nearby region. Our crowd funding campaign allows us to engage

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Adoption of accounting software

Adoption of accounting software

We’ve recently been setting up a new accounting software – Xero. As we’ve gone through this process, we’ve received a fair amount of push back in India. People are used to using a software called Tally, and we’ve had to justify why we want to use a

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First sales executive retreat

First sales executive retreat

Yesterday, we took everyone based in our Pollachi office out to lunch at nice place outside of Pollachi. This was our first retreat for our sales executives. It was mostly a chance to get everyone together, to treat our employees to a nice meal, and to say

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Not that different than the car market

Not that different than the car market

While reading a Jalopnik article reflecting on the Indian car market, it struck me that the Indian car market is really not that different from the market for essential technologies. The author, Jason Torchinsky, a car blogger and first-time visitor to India, hit on a number of

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Learning from those who know the problem best

Learning from those who know the problem best

You can’t completely understand the problem until you learn about it from the people who know it best. This has been a personal philosophy that has grown stronger over the past couple of years. It’s been reinforced even more this winter. I’m Jen, and I’ve been working

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Essmart works with local shops. Here's some reasons why this local shop network is so strong throughout India:

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