Articles by NextBillion Editor
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Tuesday
October 13
2015NextBillion’s Most-Read, Most-Shared Posts for August: Building the perfect accelerator, new rules in Indian banking and what can be learned from Walmart’s relationship with USAID
How do you design a business accelerator that A) supports enterprises concentrating on new products and technologies designed for poor and low income people and B) engages investors – not just their money – but also their knowledge and mentors. One accelerator that hopes to do both was our most There’s no single formula, especially if this entrepreneurial assignment takes place in developing countries and across multiple industry sectors. Many smart people are studying what makes a good accelerator a great one. In fact, it’s the subject of a big research project called the the Global Accelerator Learning Initiative (GALI), a collaboration between the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs and Emory University.
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Guest Articles
Friday
October 9
2015SOCAP Recap: OPTIMISM … With a Dash of Skepticism:
With warplanes thundering overhead (seriously), the crowd at Thursday's SOCAP sessions conducted a stimulating and wide-ranging discussion of the many facets of social business and investing. But among the usual positivity was a distinct note of impatience. Our editors discuss what they saw and heard at yesterday's proceedings.
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Thursday
October 8
2015Live from SOCAP15 : Quotes, tweets and nugget-sized insights from the first full day
More than 2,700 people are attending the eighth annual SOCAP – which describes itself as “the largest conference in the world that is mixing the people who want to use business to change the world for good with the people who invest and make that happen” – in San Francisco this year. Here's a smattering of quotes and tweets gathered by NextBillion.
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Wednesday
September 23
2015Previewing the Biggest SOCAP Yet: 140+ sessions, 2,500+ attendees – here’s what’s on tap at this year’s event
On Oct. 6-9, SOCAP, the leading conference on social enterprise and impact investing, will gather over 2,500 attendees at Fort Mason Center, San Francisco. SOCAP15 will feature more than 140 sessions for learning, connecting and meeting peers and potential partners. NextBillion will be a media partner at the event, and you can take advantage of the $500 discount on registration available to our readers until Sept. 30.
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- Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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Saturday
September 19
2015Weekly Roundup 9-19-15: Impact investing gets bizarro, poverty surveys get reflective, Gates gets quizzed
We highlight a unique anti-poverty tool geared toward heads of low-income households rather than policy-makers, discuss a truly bizarre new entrant into the "impact investing" scene, and take a quiz with Bill Gates in this Roundup.
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Friday
September 11
2015Weekly Roundup 9-11-15: Accelerators for VCs, Ugandan-made EVs and other rare ‘unicorns’ of global development spotted
This week's developments featured a novel tool to help fix the lack of local venture capital and investment expertise in social enterprises, a new era for M-PESA, a new health care alliance and hybrid car in Africa, and a fascinating debate about what type of entity might become the continent’s first unicorn.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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Friday
September 4
2015A Short Holiday for the NB Team:
So that NextBillion's editorial team can enjoy the Labor Day holiday here in the United States, we are taking a little break. NextBillion will resume publication on Tuesday, Sept. 8.
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Friday
August 28
2015Weekly Roundup – 8/28/15: Will microfinance take on the ‘randomistas’?
Our finance editor discusses an online dispute between two global development heavyweights, which highlighted the growing tension between the microfinance sector and the poverty researchers who have increasingly called its impact into question. And our health care editor weighed in on another bout: The e-cigarette vs. traditional tobacco cancer stick industry in the developing world.
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