Articles by Al Hammond
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Monday
June 20
2016NexThought Monday: Marking a Shift at the BOP World Convention
Two years ago, in Singapore, the BOP World Convention & Expo explored cross-sector partnerships and hybrid models as potential catalysts. This year, the convention will focus on inclusive economies, what can drive them, and their implications for the BoP.
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November 2
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Wednesday
September 17
2014Looking for Hybrid Ecosystems to Serve the BoP: Scenes from the first BoP World Convention that took place last month in Singapore
The first BoP World Convention took place in Singapore at the end of August. For an inaugural conference, it attracted a remarkably large and diverse crowd—600 attendees from 40 countries that spanned a multitude of ages and topic specialties, writes organizer Al Hammond. What set this conference off from other BoP gatherings were efforts to consider how these sectors might work together in novel ways to address poverty.
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Tuesday
June 10
2014The BoP World Convention & Expo: Why the inaugural gathering is critical and why Singapore is the perfect venue
The BoP World Convention will focus on hybrid models for serving the BoP, with speakers from the private sector, the social entrepreneur community, major non-governmental organizations, and governments. It reflects a growing belief that collaborative, cross-sector approaches are necessary to get to scale and, despite a strong contingent of speakers from Asia, reflects a global perspective.
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Friday
January 4
2013Unique Opportunity for Social Entrepreneurs with Scalable Ideas: GSBI seeking health and off-grid energy applicants for 2013
The Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI) run by Santa Clara University celebrated its 10th anniversary last year. Of the 160 alumni, more than 50 percent are still scaling—a track record any venture capitalist would envy—and these social enterprises have provided services to more than 70 million beneficiaries. The deadline for this year’s GSBI is coming up fast: applications must be filed online by Jan. 11.
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Friday
November 19
2010Why Entrepreneurs Should Seek A Strong Board of Directors
Entrepreneurs like to control their own destiny. Indeed, as Ricardo Levy recounts in his book, Letters to a Young Entrepreneur, that urge to be free drove him from the comfortable ranks of a large corporation to start his first new company. Why then would an entrepreneur want to shackle that freedom by creating a powerful Board of Directors?
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Thursday
November 18
2010Being Comfortable With Uncertainty and Other ’Letters’ to Entrepreneurs
Ricardo Levy is one of those rare entrepreneurs who is reflective and even analytical about the entrepreneurial process, and he’s written a book reflecting on those challenges, typical of those every entrepreneur faces, and how he solved them. The book, Letters To a Young Entrepreneur, is explicitly a guidebook for young entrepreneurs.
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Wednesday
July 14
2010Introducing Ashoka to NextBillion.net
I’m glad to introduce Ashoka as new Associate Partner for NextBillion.net. I have found the Ashoka network an amazing source of market intelligence, practical insights and valuable connections. I hope this new partnership between Ashoka and NextBillion will make similar intelligence and insights available and useful to the readers of this site.
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