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Weekly Roundup: BOP Ubiquity
One of my roles as Editor is to scan the news for articles of interest to our readership. But my job is getting harder - because "base of the pyramid" is becoming the general phrase used not only in the context of market-oriented development strategies, but as a figure of speech to refer to this segment broadly.
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Does it Make Sense to Analyze BoP Firms from an Industry Lens?
Why do we define firms on the basis of an industry if many of the most success BoP business models are hybrid? Why do we analyze the impact of an industry at the household level independently of other industries if the biggest impact occurs through its inter-industry effects? Is this hampering the potential of BoP solutions in low-income markets?
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At the Dawn of Japanese BoP Business
While I spent years and years researching BoP related business, there had been a lot of small changes in Japanese business and aid society, but last year, 2009, was totally different. 2009 was the year of a "Social Business" big boom, as domestic social business individual entrepreneurs are featured by media and also by governmental policy makers.
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New Business Models for Sustainable Trading – Part 2
This post is part of a recurring series exploring new business models for linking small farmers to global markets being analyzed through an international collaborative effort.
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Rice paddies and culture
If you haven’t read Outliers, or Malcom Gladwell’s previous books The Tipping Point and Blink, you are missing out on some of the most insightful, entertaining and mind opening dissection of human behavior. In Outliers, Gladwell explains what makes someone extraordinary successful.
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Announcing TechnoServe as a New Partner in NextBillion
We are pleased to announce that TechnoServe has agreed to join the NextBillion community as an Associate Partner. TechnoServe joins World Resources Institute, Acumen Fund and William Davidson Institute as the site’s Partners.
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Staff Transitions: Moses Lee, Tayo Akinyemi and Phil LaRocco
Continuing with a series of announcements on NextBillion’s "gearing-up" for the new year, I’m happy to welcome Moses Lee into NextBillion’s Editorial team. Moses will join Rob, Nathan and myself in keeping the site running smoothly and moderating the conversation in it. It’s also time to thank two of our team members
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Weekly Roundup: Not Venture Capital – Village Capital
Better late than never for, ahem, last week’s roundup. The release of Bill Gates’ 2010 "Annual Letter", plus two exciting incubator slates announced recently, West Coast Village Capital at The Hub in Berkeley and the Unreasonable Institute, both of which are part of the Village Capital effort by First Light Ventures.
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