A student finds the entrance test to an engineering college a never-to-be-forgotten struggle. Most others would simply grumble. Not Kedar Deshpande. He turned the problem into an opportunity, producing a primer for fellow sufferers — a sort of “all you want to know about…” booklet containing the low-down on engineering colleges and their entrance tests. [...]
The annual Paragon Fellowship is a platform to provide young and inspiring entrepreneurs from Asia Pacific as role models to the youth to raise entrepreneurship awareness in Asia Pacific. 100 Young Entrepreneurs and Social Change makers under the age of 30 years are selected for a one- year fellowship and their stories serve as inspiration [...]
Irfan Alam pioneered a social venture that increases incomes for thousands of rickshaw drivers; he is preparing to list the venture on the stock exchange by 2012. Casey Wilson launched the first peer-to-peer micro-finance lending platform for rural farmers in China, enabling donors to make life-changing loans for an entrepreneur in rural China. Mathews Jose [...]