Design Impact Movement
What’s In It For You
Design Impact Movement
Human Centered Design
IDEO
Start with the 'Why'
Nagaraja Prakasam
Design Meets Tech Meets Social
Prof. Madhukar Shukla
From Opportunities to the Ones You Want to Solve
Prof. Vijayaraghavan M Chariar
Solution Design & Development
Rohit Swarup
Prototype and Validation
Susmita Mohanty
Tinkering Along
Anuj Sharma
Taking Tech-Enabled Products to Market
K Chandrasekhar
Telling Masterful Stories
Aruna Ganesh Ram
Masterclasses
Start with the 'Why'

What is the life force to sustain our purpose?

We start our journey of learning the skill of building and scaling successful products as intrapreneurs or entrepreneurs by understanding the 'qualifications' or mindsets you need to build. You are invited to this first module to explore what is important to you. This module helps you look inside yourself and …

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We start our journey of learning the skill of building and scaling successful products as intrapreneurs or entrepreneurs by understanding the 'qualifications' or mindsets you need to build. You are invited to this first module to explore what is important to you. This module helps you look inside yourself and evaluate two questions - 'Can you sing like you did when you were a child?' and 'Can you hear the sunrise?' Learn how to identify the model your offering falls under and how you can disrupt and build a product or business that is sturdy and can withstand competition. 

A bonus learning module at the end helps you familiarize yourself with terms frequently used both in product building and businesses, and therefore in this masterclass.

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Nagaraja Prakasam
Impact Investor

Nagaraja (Naga) Prakasam is a self-confessed farmer who grows start-ups! He has nurtured and grown businesses in the US and in India. As a full-time angel investor, he has invested in 21 (yes, that’s right!) start-ups, serves on the boards of thirteen companies, and has seen four successful exits. He has spearheaded impact thinking in the Indian Angel Network and co-founded IAN Impact. His mantra is 'start-ups should focus on India’s strength – people, problems, tech (PPT)'. He was featured …

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Nagaraja (Naga) Prakasam is a self-confessed farmer who grows start-ups! He has nurtured and grown businesses in the US and in India. As a full-time angel investor, he has invested in 21 (yes, that’s right!) start-ups, serves on the boards of thirteen companies, and has seen four successful exits. He has spearheaded impact thinking in the Indian Angel Network and co-founded IAN Impact. His mantra is 'start-ups should focus on India’s strength – people, problems, tech (PPT)'. He was featured in Forbes magazine as a 'social investor engineering social change'. 

Naga lives in Bangalore. He holds a B.E. degree from Thiagarajar College of Engineering, India, and an MBA degree from the San Diego/Kennesaw State University, United States.

To know more you can check out https://naga.farm/about/

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I Wish

Hindsight has its benefits — here’s what previous Design Impact Award winners wish they knew when they got on the road to designing for social good.