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Scott Anderson
Contributing Editor

Scott Anderson is a writer, editor, blogger and social media practitioner with more than 20 years experience in media. He served as NextBillion’s managing editor from 2010 to mid- 2016. Since then, Anderson has served as communications manager for the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan – the parent organization of NextBillion.

Anderson is a business reporter and editor who has covered the technology, pharmaceutical, and automotive industries for both local and national publications. He also has managed blogs and other social media initiatives for multinational corporations. Anderson first began reporting on social entrepreneurship and development through enterprise after interviewing CK Prahalad soon after the publication of his book “Fortune At the Bottom of the Pyramid,” which gained worldwide acclaim.

Follow him on Twitter @ScotterAnderson, connect on LinkedIn or email him at seander@umich.edu.

Articles by Scott Anderson

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    Movirtu’s Plan for 4 Million ’Cloud Phone’ Users by 2013

    Earlier this month, "Cloud Phone" software company Movirtu announced it would be expanding in 2011 with a Series A investment of $5.5 million and plans to roll out some new products soon. CEO Nigel Waller said the financing will keep the firm on track toward reaching its goal of 4 million users by 2013.

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    Building a Fortune With the BoP: A Video Interview with Ted London

    If BoP was a piece of music, then Next Generation Business Strategies for the Base of the Pyramid aims to convert it from an analog to a digital format. A decade after the concept first emerged and myriad businesses have adopted BoP as a guiding principle, veteran and new thought leaders challenge us not to build a fortune at, but WITH, the BoP.

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    Discussing Disqus, the Next Step in NB?s Interactive Community

    Next week, we hope to drastically reduce NextBillion’s diet of spam, and more importantly, take the NextBillion community to the next level of interaction. We’ll migrate NextBillion’s existing commenting system to Disqus,an open-source commenting platform that is used by many large publishers, including CNN, Engadget and Mashable.

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    Gold Stars: The Best of November on NextBillion

    The ancient proverb, "you never step in the same river twice" also applies to blogs like NextBillion, where our content tends to flow fast. In an attempt to highlight some great posts before they are digitally washed downstream, I’d like pause at the beginning of each month to call out some of best of NextBillion for the previous month.

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    Giving Thanks for Two New NB Staffers

    On the eve of Thanksgiving, I’d like to express personal and professional thanks to two NextBillion contributors: Kevin Keepper and Oscar Abello.I’m happy to announce Kevin has agreed to sign on as a NextBillion Editor and Oscar has come on board as a Staff Writer.

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    Shining a (Solar) Light on Patient Capital

    The IFC/World Bank’s Lighting Africa Program report, Solar Lighting for the Base of the Pyramid, found Africa will be the world’s largest market for solar portable lights by 2015. But it will remain only potential without patient capital. Acumen CEO Jaqueline Novogratz says acceptance of patient capital is moving far faster than microfinance did.

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    Forum Looks at BoP in Brazil

    Tomorrow in S?o Paulo, Brazil, NextBillion along with several other stakeholders, will participate an event on "Modelos De Negocios Que Reduzem a Pobreza" or for the non-Portuguese speaker, Business Models that Reduce Poverty. I briefly spoke with Rob Parkison, Coordinator for ANDE’s Brazil Regional Hub and organizer of the event.

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    Global Entrepreneurship Week: Let’s Get to Work

    With 100 countries, 40,000 events and 10 million people, Global Entrepreneurship Week has grown exponentially with the global economic turndown. And never before have so many people had access to so many good ideas for starting and flourishing new enterprises.

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