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Weekly Roundup March 29 -April 3
This past week we had a strong focus on student and the challenges of student-led ventures, at both the undergrad and graduate level, in the U.S., India, and around the world.
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Entering the African Retail Market to Combat Poverty
A new company is helping African farmers escape poverty by delivering appropriate technologies at affordable prices that will bolster the strength of their enterprises. By conducting market analyses to enter the retail space, Anza is launching an initiative aimed at achieving sustainability and providing value-adding products to rural farmers.
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Lessons from Granada: How MBA Students Can Help
The Latin American-focused conferences of the past weeks have finally come to an end. I became engaged in several discussions on how to increase MBA participation in this growing industry.
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NSEF: A Net Impact for India?
National Social Entrepreneurship Forum plans to open centers of excellence in campuses all across the country to promote social entrepreneurship amongst the Indian youth
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The Future of NextBillion
A few months ago, the managing partners of NextBillion (Acumen Fund, WRI, and WDI) met in New York for a strategy meeting on the future of NextBillion. Our team came up with an initial plan for the next two years with the overall goal to increase readership, involvement, and the brand equity of NextBillion.
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Educational Experiences As If Impact is the Intent and Scale Matters
At the NCIIA’s annual conference, I spent time with Julia Novy-Hildesly, Executive Director of the Lemelson Foundation discussing the global innovation landscape and where American students fit in. In a changing world, we need a new model to join human capital at universities with human need at the base of the pyramid.
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Rural Finance in C?te d?Ivoire
After seven years working in the financial-sector, I joined TechnoServe in C?te d’Ivoire in September 2009 as a short-term volunteer consultant and later as an independent contractor, both positions in support of the Cocoa Livelihoods Program (CLP). My goal was to develop a system to provide farm inputs on credit to small cocoa farmers.
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R.I.P. Social Ventures?
"How do you know when to pull the plug on your idea?" That’s the question Kiwanja.net’s Ken Banks posed to me after swapping stories one afternoon about our respective startup organizations. Implementing ideas demands a physical and emotional investment, and once you’ve put so much into it, it becomes hard to know when to throw in the towel.
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