Shabda Gyawali's Blog

In a blog post , Anthony Bugg-Levine and Jed Emerson,the authors of Impact Investing: Transforming How We Make Money While Making a Difference were quoted - " the sector (Impact investing ) has so far existed almost exclusively in the realms of "the ridiculously rich and the ludicrously large." Family offices, private clients, and pension funds are the ones with the large capital to put to work, perhaps more than the impact sector can even handle for a very long time. So what about retail? While opening up the doorway to retail clients may not hold as much sway in terms of volume of investment capital, taking impact investing retail is important for more than sheer capital reasons. As Bugg-Levine and Emerson say, "it is about creating a more integrated relationship between our assets and our values," and it's about transforming what society values and how we organize our resources to achieve these values. If impact investing remains confined to the upper...

DO you guys think this model will work in Kathmandu If I had some money, I would have started a clean engine motorcycle taxi service in Kathmandu, Nepal. This venture will help create jobs, reduce carbon emissions and traffic congestion in the city of Kathmandu. The startup will have three revenue streams -taxi fares, advertisement on the motorcycles and drivers selling mobile phone prepaid airtime minutes. We will divide our target customers into two segments. First, responsible and frugal tourists who are looking for eco friendly, low-cost and safe mode of transportation for site seeing. Tour guide and basic foreign language training will be provided to our motorcycle drivers. Second target segment will be middleclass Nepalese. It might be possible due to social and cultural norms females wouldn’t be comfortable riding with a male motorcycle driver, to deal with this issue; we will hire female drivers. Our taxis will cater door to door service and will be centrally guided ...