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List out the offerings provided by the Foundation that helps an onboard company to scale up. |
The program aims to help ‘innovative’ organisations in accelerating their growth through what we call ‘deep rooted and intensive mentoring’ by a domain expert. The MIF team works closely with the innovation to ascertain the business challenge they are facing; the mentors devote their time and experience in developing a... |
How do you select startups to support them? |
For MIF Scale-Up, the focus is on scalable innovations. The team proactively reaches out to such innovations through ecosystem partner recommendations and in- house research. However innovations can also reach out to MIF by writing to [email protected] The innovation is validated and then presented to the Founder, Hars... |
As for MIF Awards- Applications are welcomed after an exhaustive out-reach program. These applications are shortlisted by two juries (one for social impact and another for the business category), comprised of an eclectic mix of subject matter experts. The shortlist is then further scrutinized by the Awards knowledge pa... |
The intake process for their newest program Innovate2Cultivate is fairly robust too- MIF conducted an exhaustive outreach for their newest program #Innovate2Cultivate where the team contacted more than 500 Indian agri-preneurs in a span of 45 days. After the closing of application window, the Knowledge Partners for the... |
How many companies have come on board so far? Can you name a few of them and highlight how advantage program has helped them scale up? |
We have 25 innovations in our scale-up cohort over time and 37 innovations as part of our Innovate2Cultivate program. MIF Awards has recognized the pioneering work of 57 innovations thus far. |
Success stories: Zaya Labs sells a learning software platform to affordable schools, after-school centres, and vocational training centres that runs online or on-device called ClassCloud. It operates on a rotational-based model, also known as ‘blended learning’. The beauty of blended learning lies in equal participatio... |
Through the foundation’s intervention with Zaya Labs has led to a drastic reduction in percentage of customer returns of damaged goods from a whopping 85% returns to now only 0.03% thereby increasing product credibility and sales. |
Yet another impactful case is that of Educate Girls. While solving a supply chain management challenge MIF has managed to reduce the total per kit cost leading to an immediate saving of Rs. 35 lakhs over just 4 months of engagement. They are now able to scale their project that was going to 800 schools at a much higher... |
Another example of Atomberg Technologies (India’s most energy efficient ceiling fan, consuming just 25W, as compared to the majority which consumes 75W, thereby cutting down your electricity bill by 65%). MIF’s intervention in their e-commerce sales strategy has led to 5 times increase in sales numbers in October 2018 ... |
Please elaborate your future plans for 2019 and the global presence. |
Open App: Newly on- boarded to our Scale-Up Program, Distinct Horizon has developed a patented Fertilizer/Urea Deep Placement Applicator for rice farming that increases productivity by 25%, thereby reducing fertilizer consumption by 40%. |
Distinct Horizon: is a startup focused on providing better security options for everyone. They have come up with unique innovative products that have made ‘unlocking’ really simple, secure and safe. By adding layers of technology to unlocking, they have transformed security with technological intelligence. |
We also aim to see some outcome from the Innovate2Cultivate Program and will be planning the second leg focusing on another crop. |
The next edition of MIF Awards is in Feb 2020. Applications for the same will be open in July 2019. |
We also are releasing a second book this year that chronicles the scaling up journeys of 10 innovations and draws insights from them. The first book from MIF was released in 2009 titled ‘Making Breakthrough Innovations Happen’, and I am delighted to note that this book is quite a benchmark for innovation. It has sold m... |
TPI Enterprises Ltd. manufactures and produces narcotic raw material for the international pharmaceutical industry. Its activities include narcotic raw materials, poppy seed production and distribution, active pharmaceutical ingredient, and finished dosage production and distribution. The company was founded by Jarrod ... |
A police search is under way for a missing Doncaster woman. |
Chelsea Rose, aged 26, was last seen at her home, in the Wheatley Park area of the town, at 11am on Thursday, July 5. |
She is 5ft 2ins tall, slim and has long, dark brown hair. |
ON Saturday, the new series of Strictly Come Dancing started in earnest as the 15 celebrities took to the floor - which means its sister show is now back as well. |
Host Zoe Ball will be looking back at the weekend's live show, bringing us all the backstage gossip and chatting to some of the famous faces and their partners about how it went - and what we can expect from their next routine. No doubt she'll be calling on some expert opinions as well, but who will be taking up reside... |
FIVE years ago, Sam Evans and Shauna Guinn left their city jobs to embark on a road trip across the US to learn the secrets of American barbecue. |
Enthused with the spirit of smoke and fire, they returned to Wales with a mission - to spread their passion for outdoor cooking. Now, having written a best-selling cookbook, opened their own restaurant and won numerous awards, the girls hit the road to celebrate the achievements of community champions across Wales and ... |
CHESHIRE Police launch a major search operation for the missing 40-year-old Michael Price, but, as the weeks turn into months, the passing time proves torturous for his loved ones and they remain in limbo and frustrated at the lack of developments. |
Underwater Search, NPAS helicopters and specialist search resources check every nook and cranny of his home town of Northwich to no avail, and a number of potential phoned-in sightings from members of the public just add to the mystery. Last in the series. |
KATE works alongside Michael to defend Alice Munezero from the charges laid against her in France, but as shadowy forces try to prevent the truth being unearthed, Kate faces worrying threats to her personal safety. |
Meanwhile, Michael struggles with his health issues back in London - can they both continue forward to gain an acquittal for Alice? Thriller written and directed by Hugo Blick, starring Michaela Coel, Harriet Walter, John Goodman, Noma Dumezweni and Ronald Gultman. |
WHEN Jonah realises that his late wife Megan was involved with Hong Kong's most dangerous players, he starts to wonder whether those closest to her may know more than they have let on, dragging him further into a world of intrigue. |
Thriller, starring John Simm as the British professor whose life is turned upside down by his wife's tragic death, with Anthony Wong, Emilia Fox, Katie Leung, Anthony Hayes and Tim McInnerny, directed by the award-winning and critically acclaimed Paul Andrew Williams. |
FEW would bet against Cristiano Ronaldo claiming a record sixth Men's Player of the Year prize (formerly the Ballon d'Or) at the Royal Festival Hall, London, tonight, with his former Real Madrid teammate, Croatian Luka Modric and Liverpool's Egyptian forward Mohamed Salah also in contention. |
Ronaldo also features in the nominations for the Puskas Award for Best Goal, while Welshman's Gareth Bale's acrobatic effort for Real in the Champions League final against Liverpool is another on the list. Norway and Lyon's Ada Hegenrberg, Dzsenifer Marozsan of Germany and Lyon, and five-time winner, Marta, of Brazil a... |
Nancy Buchholz holds her husband Jeff's picture, who died six weeks after being diagnosed with cancer this spring. Nancy got Bind coverage through her employer, Dove Healthcare and the only bill she had to pay for his hospital stay was the $1,900 copayment laid out in the new insurance plan. |
People with health insurance often pay for coverage they never use. A startup wants to shake that up. |
It's a radical idea: On-demand insurance that lets customers buy some of their coverage only if and when they need it, similar to how TV viewers might rent a new release from Amazon instead of paying every month for a pricey cable package they rarely use. |
This approach from Bind Benefits is one of the latest wrinkles in a yearslong push by companies and insurers to control costs and make patients smarter health care shoppers. And it's drawing attention from the nation's largest health insurer, UnitedHealthcare, and some sizeable employers. |
"It's the sort of thing we need entrepreneurs to be doing," said Robert Laszewski, a health care consultant and former insurance executive. "We haven't had a new idea in managed care in I don't know how long." |
Bind's plan draws concern from researchers worried about how this may hurt some pocketbooks, but it also has attracted employers hungry for a fresh way to tame expenses. |
School superintendent Barry Rose picked Bind as the only coverage option earlier this year for the Cumberland, Wisconsin, school district after cycling through numerous health plans in the last six years. Rose said about two-thirds of his workers use $500 or less in health care every year, and he didn't want to charge ... |
"We have quality health care. If people need it, great. If they don't, at least we're not soaking them for it," he said. |
Minneapolis-based Bind is not an insurer, but it designs health plans for big employers that pay their own bills. |
Here's how it works. Under Bind's plan, customers pay a base monthly premium that can be as much as 40 percent cheaper than other options their employer offers, the company says. |
That covers most care, like doctor visits, hospital stays, maternity care, cancer treatment and prescriptions. |
A patient can then buy additional coverage for some procedures that aren't urgent like a knee surgery or hip replacement. In these cases, the patient has time to plan for the care and look at different options for who performs it. |
The additional coverage comes with an extra premium and possibly a copayment, depending on the care provider and what is being purchased. In these cases, patients might get stuck paying more than $1,000 in additional costs. |
Users log onto Bind's website or app to see what is covered, what it will cost them. That can vary based on Bind's quality rating for a provider and how efficiently it provides care. Someone with an ear infection might pay nothing for a telemedicine visit. But a trip to an expensive emergency room for such a minor illn... |
"If we get everyone buying better, we actually make the product more affordable for all of us," said Bind CEO Tony Miller. |
If patients stick to the plan's provider network in that core coverage, they will have one bill — a copayment. Miller said Bind avoids high deductibles or co-insurance payments that make it hard for some to understand how much care really costs. |
That simplicity helped Nancy Buchholz when she was trying to track her husband's expenses for cancer treatment last spring. She said he died six weeks after being diagnosed, and she became overwhelmed by billing notices from the hospital showing that care costs were approaching $300,000. |
But the only bill she had to pay for his hospital stay was the $1,900 copayment laid out in the insurance plan. |
"When you go through something that's emotionally devastating, the last thing you want to worry about is having to make sure something is paid for," said the Cadott, Wisconsin, resident, who got Bind coverage through her employer, Dove Healthcare. |
The potential for unexpected additional costs under Bind's system concerns Sabrina Corlette, a research professor at Georgetown's Center on Health Insurance Reforms. She noted that older customers are more likely to wind up with these big bills because they tend to have more expensive procedures. |
"This gets close to the line if not a little bit over the line of being discriminatory because it would only be people who have certain health conditions that would face higher premiums," she said. |
Miller said his plans comply with federal anti-discrimination laws, and they provide all covered members the same benefit at the same cost. |
Bind started selling coverage this year and only has a few thousand people enrolled. But it is expanding nationally, with help from UnitedHealthcare, which covers more than 40 million people. UnitedHealthcare is offering Bind coverage to some employer customers for 2019. |
The company will need to offer big discounts to attract more business, said Laszewski, the health care consultant. |
He noted that customers are slow to accept new insurance ideas, and Bind relies on patients trusting its quality rating for the doctor they pick. That's a gamble in health care, where it's hard for people to understand and feel comfortable with those measurements. |
"If you're going to expect employers and consumers to take risks, they're going to have to see a premium up front," he said. "They're not going to buy the sales pitch." |
Duets eliminated Meleana Brown during Wednesday night's performance show, which featured the remaining seven contestants each taking the stage and singing "party songs" with one of the show's four celebrity duet partners. |
Meleana was eliminated by Duets celebrity partners and established recording artists John Legend, Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Nettles, and Robin Thicke after she landed in the bottom two on the night's duets score chart and then performed a new "sing for your life" solo song for the show's celebrity judging panel. |
"Thank you so much for having me here. It's been such a blessing to be here. Thank you for this opportunity," Meleana said following her ouster. |
Meleana was beaten out by fellow bottom-two amateur singer Olivia Chisholm during Duets' second "solo showdown," which featured a cappella performances without backup singers or a band. She sang "Saving All My Love For You" for her "sing for your life" performance while Olivia sang a rendition of "I Can't Make You Love... |
Meleana and Olivia were forced to sing an additional "survival" song after they received the lowest overall scores of the night from three of the four celebrity partners -- every partner but their own -- when being judged on their duet performance's quality and presentation. |
Meleana was paired up with John as one of his two selected duet partners, while Olivia was discovered by and sang with Robin. John was very proud of his partner's progress in the competition and overall talent. |
"She's wonderful. She came in at the last minute. She stood in line with all these other auditioners and we picked her because we thought she was beautiful and wonderful and had a great voice and had a lot to offer the show, and I don't regret it for a minute," John explained. |
Earlier in the night, Meleana and John took the stage and sang a duet of "Since You Been Gone." Olivia and Robin performed a rendition of "Let's Stay Together" for their duet. |
In addition to Meleana and Olivia, Duets' other first-season amateur singers also performed with their celebrity duet partners and were ranked on the score chart from first to seventh place. However, the contestants who finished fifth place or better were ultimately declared safe. |
J. Rome topped the night's scoring chart with his partner Jennifer after singing "P.Y.T.," while Bridget Carrington finished in second place for her performance of "Last Dance" alongside John. |
John Glosson came in third place after singing "Life Is A Highway" with Jennifer, and Jordan Meredith landed in fourth place on the score chart following her performance of "I Love Rock and Roll" with Kelly. Kelly also took the stage and sang a duet to "Satisfaction" with Jason Farol, who ended up in fifth place on the... |
Meleana, who performed with John, finished in sixth place. Olivia came in seventh -- and last -- place on the Duets chart after her performance. |
Vicki J. Rollins, 54, of Jacksonville was injured about 8:48 p.m. Sunday, when she was struck by a vehicle driven by Blake M. Perry, 9 Valevue Acres. |
Rollins was taken to Passavant Area Hospital and later to Memorial Medical Center for serious, but non-life threatening injuries. |
Perry was not injured and no citations had been issued Monday. |
• Samuel J. Maha, 26, of 206 West St., Franklin, was booked into Morgan County Jail about 1:44 p.m. Monday on a charge of driving on a revoked or suspended license. |
• Aaron W. Durham, 22, of 342 W. State St. was booked into Morgan County Jail about 7:09 p.m. Monday on a warrant for failure to appear in court on allegations of domestic battery and possession of drug paraphernalia. |
• Julius S. Woods, 27, of 323 Anna St. was booked into Morgan County Jail about 2:22 p.m. Monday on a felon-in-possession-of-a-weapon charge. |
• April C. Turner, 40, of 800 W. College Ave. was booked into Morgan County Jail about 3:20 p.m. Monday on a charge of retail theft. |
• A laptop was taken from a residence in the 300 block of East Beecher Avenue about 9 a.m. Thursday, according to a reported filed about 12:26 a.m. Monday. Also, a lawn mower was taken from the residence about a month ago, according to the report. |
• Cameron J. McLaughlin, 23, of Ottumwa, Iowa, was booked into Morgan County Jail about 3:33 p.m. Monday on an out-of-county warrant for failing to appear in court on allegations of theft, possession of a controlled substance, paraphernalia, and cannabis. |
• David A. Avery, 48, of Mount Sterling was booked into the Schuyler County Jail about 10:50 p.m. Sunday on a charge of domestic battery. |
• In the early morning hours of Friday, a burglary and theft took place at a residence in rural Buckhorn Township. Various power and hand tools were stolen from the garage and were loaded into the resident’s truck, which also was then stolen. A vehicle previously reported stolen from Adams County was recovered near the... |
THORNTON, Colo. — The bones of a triceratops discovered at a construction site in Thornton this week will go on public display this weekend, officials said Friday. |
Crews are working to get the 12 bones that have been discovered out of the ground at the site for the city’s new public safety facility building that is under construction at East 132nd Avenue and Quebec Street. |
The collection includes a lower part of the jaw, two brow bones, parts of the shield behind the dinosaur’s head, shoulder bones, vertebrae and ribs. |
The fossils are believed to be 66 million years old. They will be taken to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and will be on display this weekend. |
“Based on what we’ve uncovered up to this point, this find is likely the most complete cretaceous-period skeleton ever found in this region,” said Joe Sertich, the curator of dinosaurs for the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. |
A rib bone weighing about 40 pounds was the first to be extracted by volunteers from the museum, the Colorado Office of Archaeology, Saunders Construction and the city of Thornton. |
The triceratops is about the size of a rhinoceros, Sertich said. Crews will continue to excavate the triceratops focusing on the skull and frill bones. |
Construction workers found the fossils on Aug. 25 while digging holes, and the city and museum confirmed they were the horn and shoulder blade. |
A protesting pensioner who faces jail for refusing to pay her council tax will appear before magistrates today. |
Josephine Rooney, 69, was previously sentenced to three months in prison after she failed to pay a £798.97 debt to Derby City Council in protest at the state of her street. |
The former Eucharist minister says anti-social behaviour, litter and disrepair of properties have blighted the Hartington Street area of Derby. |
She was given more time to settle her outstanding tax bill after her sentencing, but the ex-war evacuee failed to meet a recent deadline for payment. |
She said: "I imagine a great number of people share my frustrations - decent, law-abiding people who have paid their taxes all their lives and seen how they have been squandered. |
"I am prepared to go to prison annually until I see a reversal of policy on our street. |
"We have been campaigning for six years and all they want to do is cover it up. I have had enough. I am weary of this campaigning and I want closure." |
The Labour-run city council has denied Miss Rooney's claims, saying measures were already in place to improve the district of Derby where she lives. |
The pensioner says she is set to appear before magistrates in the city this afternoon. |
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