Articles by Scott Anderson
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Guest Articles
Monday
December 12
2011NexThought Monday: Let’s Help Acumen Fund Write the Next Chapter
Acumen Fund helped create a new DNA to fight poverty - one weaving together threads business and philanthropy into double helix of impact. Acumen recently reflected on its anniversary with the 10 Things We’ve Learned About Tackling Global Poverty series. NextBillion Community: Now it’s your turn. Let’s help Acumen write the next chapter.
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- Social Enterprise
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Tuesday
December 6
2011The G20 Challenge Applying Proven Business Models to the BoP
Last week, the doors swung wide for full applications to the G20 Challenge on Inclusive Business Innovation. The Challenge doesn’t offer prize money to winners - rather its value is in opening the doors of opportunity for BoP-focused enterprises with proven models.
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- Education
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Guest Articles
Sunday
December 4
2011Weekly Roundup: Venture Capital Might Just ‘Save the World’, First it Needs Some Efficiency
The Forbes cover story asks: "Can Venture Capital Save the World?" But as the article points out, Acumen Fund doesn?t mirror a traditional venture capital firm. Having led a Santa Clara University study, retired venture capitalist John Kohler says social capital markets could stand to learn a few lessons on efficiency from the VC world.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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Sunday
November 20
2011Weekly Round-up 11-20-11: HealthPoint’s Push to Meet, Exceed Expectations
In a little more than two years, HealthPoint has created a network of medical clinics and clean water access points, providing 22,000 medical consultations, filling 28,000 prescriptions, and assisting more than 50,000 people a day with drinking water. This growth propelled the initial clinics to positive cash flow in the first quarter of 2011.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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Sunday
November 6
2011Weekly Round-up 11-6-11: Welcoming Two New Voices to NextBillion
I’d like to formally welcome two new writers to the NextBillion community. I use the term formally only because Andrew Eder and Logan Yonavjak have already contributed several in-depth posts to the site on subjects ranging from promoting agricultural business innovation in Zimbabwe to the urgency of environmentally sustainable investing.
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Sunday
October 16
2011Weekly Roundup: 10-16-11: Creating the Ecosystem, the Unreasonable Way
Like many relatively nascent movements, we use the term "ecosystem" quite a bit when referencing the social enterprise space. For many entrepreneurs (or the frogs in this somewhat stretched analogy) the Unreasonable Institute is that swamp, if you will. The third annual six-week acceleration program is accepting applications for 25 coveted slots.
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Thursday
October 13
2011ANDE Moves From Analysis to Action
While it still represents "pocket change" compared to the heavy hitters of private equity and microfinance institutional lending, the small and growing business investment sector is growing. This was the prevailing view from the annual Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs Conference 2011, the organization’s third such summit.
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- Investing
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Friday
October 7
2011Friday Roundup – 10/07/11 The Next Steve Jobs …
As the plane landed upon my return from the ANDE Conference, I fired up my iPhone to read a news alert: ?Apple Announces Steve Jobs Has Died.? I flashed back to my old Apple IIe. Who would be the next iconic innovator to bring the power once held up on high to the people? Would their cause be bringing affordable technology to the poor?
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- Technology