Articles by Nathan Wyeth
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Monday
March 22
2010Weekly Roundup: Spotlight on Latin America
I’m still waiting to hear from participants in the Social Venture Capital/Social Enterprise Conference in Miami this weekend and especially the Sustainable Haiti side-event that was planned there after the earthquake in Port-Au-Prince. But in case you missed it, this past week NextBillion was all Latin America all the time.
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Saturday
March 13
2010Weekly Roundup: Focus on Children, Early and Often
This week, we welcomed four new people to the NextBillion team: Maria Zheng, Andrew Eder, Bryan Farris, and Adeena Schlussel. Staff writers took new looks at how enterprises can intervene in education and early childhood to create new security and prosperity into the future.
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Saturday
March 6
2010Weekly Roundup: Warmth and Light
Two innovative product companies that came out of one university course are delivering some basic things to children (of different ages): warmth and light. In the case of the latter, there are also some great lessons how to grab the public’s attention and imagination for a new product for the base of the pyramid.
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Thursday
February 18
2010Oxfam’s ’Poverty Footprint’ For Business: Know Thyself
In a recent roundup I highlighted an Oxfam "Brief for Business" on their Poverty Footprint Methodology. The footprint concept, intelligently borrowed from the use of the term for carbon, is a comprehensive approach to ’corporate social responsibility’ that I think should open up opportunities for internal business improvement as well.
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Tuesday
February 16
2010Weekly Roundup: Live from Hyderabad
This past week saw the first ever Tech4Society conference take place in Hyderabad, India, focused on the worthy goal of how to build systems that maximize the social value of technology.
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Thursday
February 11
2010Making Sense of Mobile Money: An Interview with Ben Lyon of Frontline SMS:Credit
To get a handle on all this mobile money buzz and walk through what mobile payments really look like, I sat down for a tutorial with Ben Lyon of FrontlineSMS Credit while he was in the Bay Area to speak at Google.
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Saturday
January 30
2010Weekly 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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Tuesday
January 26
2010Weekly 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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