Articles by Nathan Wyeth
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Monday
May 17
2010Weekly Roundup May 10-16
A summary of recent NextBillion coverage and an invitation to an informational event with Endeavor in New York on May 19!
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Monday
May 3
2010Weekly Roundup April 26-May 3
From the past week on NextBillion, in case you missed it...
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Thursday
April 29
2010Announcing Toniic: Aggregated Angel Investment for Social Impact
Toniic intends to aggregate angels and attract entrepreneurs as the first angel network specifically geared towards impact investment. I spoke with co-founders Sean Foote and Morgan Simon to hear about this new organization that’s forming in the Bay Area but has plans to be global in scope and reach.
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Monday
April 19
2010Weekly Roundup April 12-19: Skoll World Forum & Remembering C.K. Prahalad
This past week featured coverage of the Skoll World Forum in Oxford as well as intensive examinations of effective models for reaching the grassroots and ultra-poor levels in Pakistan and Bangladesh respectively. Following his untimely death, we’ve begun featuring remembrances of C.K. Prahalad.
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Sunday
April 11
2010Weekly Roundup: April 5-11
A summary of our content for the week, news highlights you may have missed, and a rundown of some of the ventures selected for Santa Clara University’s Global Social Benefit Incubator 2010!
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Monday
April 5
2010Weekly 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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Wednesday
March 31
2010Educational 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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Monday
March 29
2010Inventors and Innovators – Aligned with the Poor
I spent the latter part of the week at the annual conference of the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) in San Francisco. In this post I’ll highlight some of the most interesting teams and trends - then I hope to get into the question of the role of American engineers in base of the pyramid innovation.
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