The up-and-coming millennial generation is entering an unforgiving marketplace riddled with high youth unemployment—over twenty…
Nate BeardMarch 18, 2015
https://vimeo.com/99292387 On an otherwise reasonable evening in July, more than 1,000 people packed an auditorium…
Unreasonable InstituteJuly 29, 2014
With feed prices accounting for up to 70 percent of Nigerian chicken farmers' overhead, a simple move to UNFIRE feed can mean a 35 percent reduction in overall costs.
Unreasonable InstituteJuly 28, 2014
Russian startup Plastica recycles 10 percent of all plastic waste in the million-person city of Volgograd, Russia, where it is based, and turns that plastic into enough bricks, paving tiles, and roof tiles for four homes per month.
Unreasonable InstituteJuly 25, 2014
Ustvarjalnik brings entrepreneurs to high school classrooms and engages students with open-ended assignments aimed at solving real-world challenges. (One example: "Go get your picture taken with the mayor.")
Unreasonable InstituteJuly 24, 2014
Watch Yellow Leaf Hammocks co-founder Joe Demin talk about the 600-mile taxi ride that led to his company, which is creating sustainable jobs for Thailand's hill tribe communities—by selling some of the most comfortable hammocks in the world!
Unreasonable InstituteJuly 23, 2014
The fifth Unreasonable Institute has come and gone. We have since synthesized what we learned and are already sharpening our offerings for our next few programs. Here's a look at what we learned and what we need to improve.
Teju RavilochanJuly 23, 2014
Rising Tide Carwash co-founder and COO Tom D'Eri explains how his company has made a competitive advantage out of the fact that 80 percent of its workforce has autism.
Unreasonable InstituteJuly 22, 2014
Unreasonable Institute fellow Divya Yachamaneni, deputy general manager of Naandi Community Water Services, explains how her company is bringing clean drinking water to rural Indian families for less than $2 per month. NCWS’s low-cost water-purification stations are now in more than 400 villages, delivering clean, safe drinking water to about 600,000 people.
Unreasonable InstituteJuly 21, 2014
Source International provides scientists and scientific tools to communities threatened by waste and pollution from natural-resource extraction. With the resulting data, communities been able to press for compensation.
Unreasonable InstituteJuly 18, 2014
https://vimeo.com/98962022 On an otherwise reasonable evening in July, more than 1,000 people packed an auditorium…
Unreasonable InstituteJuly 17, 2014
Hear how Greenlink builds and leases solar-powered computer labs for off-grid schools in Tanzania, where 96 percent of rural classrooms lack electricity.
Unreasonable InstituteJuly 16, 2014
The 2014 Institute has come to a close! Here’s a look at what the entrepreneurs experienced during the last two weeks, with sessions on investment readiness and strategic planning.
Teju RavilochanJuly 11, 2014
Weeks two and three of the Unreasonable Institute included entrepreneurs pitching to 800 people and a learning of how to prototype like the co-creator of Google Glass.
Teju RavilochanJune 23, 2014
Changing the world should not be all work and no play. The second week of the 2014 Institute has come to a close, and that calls for celebration.
Jane MillerJune 13, 2014
Get the inside scoop of what happened during the first week of the 2014 Unreasonable Institute from CEO, Teju Ravilochan.
Teju RavilochanJune 10, 2014
Do you want to give better pitches, create better marketing campaigns, and better articulate your ideas to investors, customers, and supporters? The answer to achieving all of this is simple. You need to make your idea "stick."
Unreasonable InstituteJune 9, 2014