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Guest Post: Finding Good Capitalists
Guest blogger Blair Miller is a Manager of Business Development at Acumen Fund. She has lived and worked in Senegal, South Korea, India, and El Salvador. Her pursuit of a literature degree the University of Virginia opened her mind to the importance of social change and her MBA from Michigan...
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Guest Post: Brian Trelstad Responds to Al Hammond
Guest blogger Brian Trelstad is the Chief Investment Officer of Acumen Fund. Before joining Acumen Fund, Brian spent four years at McKinsey as a consultant in the healthcare and non-profit practices and as an editor of the McKinsey Quarterly. Prior to McKinsey, he worked as a case writer at...
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Admin: Claiming NextBillion on Technorati
Dear Readers -If you see this post, please ignore it. We are working to make sure Technorati’s spiders see NextBillion.net properly, and this is a step in that process. Please excuse us as we air our laundry for all to see.Technorati...
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Taking BoP Strategies To Scale Pt 4: Building New Business DNA for the BoP
This post is the fourth in a five part series on a radical new approach to scaling BoP business models, what we call a transformative sector strategy. In this segment, I discuss the common characteristics that make BoP business models in different sectors scalable solutions.Searching for...
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Taking BoP Strategies To Scale Pt. 3: World-Class Healthcare for the World?s Poor
This post is the third in a five part series on a radical new approach to scaling BoP business models, what we call a transformative sector strategy. In this segment, I describe how this strategy could transform the health sector in emerging economies. Last Mile Health Care Delivery Talk...
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Announcement: New Ventures Call for SME Business Plans
Do you run a small-to-medium size enterprise operating in India, Indonesia, China, Brazil or Mexico? Does your company have an innovative business model that delivers strong environmental and social benefits? Are you seeking debt or equity capital in order to grow your business? If so, apply...
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Taking BoP Strategies To Scale Pt. 2: Connecting Rural Communities
This post is the second in a five part series on a radical new approach to scaling BoP business models, what we call a transformative sector strategy. In this segment, I tell the story of a rural connectivity pilot project; an example of this new model for development in action. A Last Mile...
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Job: Senior Researcher, Institute for Financial Management and Research
Position: Senior Researcher, BoP Energy Sector Analysis, Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR)Location: Chennai, IndiaOrganization: The Centre for Development Finance of the IFMR is a development economics research and action centre. It was formally established in...
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