Articles by Rob Katz
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Tuesday
November 6
2007Is There a Third Way to Think About Low-Cost Cars?
By Ethan Arpi and Rob Katz While discussions of Ratan Tata’s 1 lakh car - and other entrants to the ultra-cheap car market - are nothing new to NextBillion.net and many other blogs, the concept received another burst of publicity over the weekend when New York Times columnist Thomas...
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Monday
November 5
2007Pop!Tech’s Net Impact (Pun Intended)
What’s the net impact of Pop!Tech?? I’ve been thinking about my time in Camden, Maine a lot lately - never more so than while I attended the 2007 Net Impact conference this past week in Nashville (see, pun very much intended.)? In all seriousness however, my trip to Tennessee prompted...
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Thursday
November 1
2007StartingBloc Institute for Social Innovation: Apply Now
Social entrepreneurship is more than a buzzword - it is becoming an industry in and of itself. And one of the best niches in this new industry is occupied by a group I know and respect, StartingBloc. A 501(c)3 non-profit organization, StartingBloc runs an Institute for Social Innovation and a...
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Wednesday
October 31
2007Jobs: Manager, Makeda Fund
NextBillion ally and Timbuktu Chronicles author Emeka Okafor sent me a note today, asking me to post the attached job description.? Emeka - a Nigerian ex-pat - is working with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and the Small Enterprise Assistance Fund to launch a new private equity fund based in Lagos called...
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Wednesday
October 31
2007Making Sense of SME Investments: Are SMEs a New Asset Class?
By Rob Katz and Mareike HusselsAt World Resources Institute, our New Ventures team tends to think about the “next big thing” as far as small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are concerned. This morning, I had a great discussion with my colleague Mareike Hussels about the...
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Wednesday
October 24
2007Kiva vs. MicroPlace – What’s the Difference?
MicroPlace, a wholly-owned subsidiary of EBay, launched its new web site today with a flurry of press releases and coverage in both Reuters and BusinessWeek. From the press release:Through MicroPlace?s secure platform, everyday people can purchase investments ? for as little as $100 ?...
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Monday
October 22
2007Guest Post: Anand K. Jaiswal on the Role of Small and Medium Enterprises
Guest blogger Dr. Anand Kumar Jaiswal is a faculty in marketing area at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India. He received his Ph.D. from XLRI Jamshedpur. His research interests include business strategies for low-income markets, sustainable development, services management and...
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Saturday
October 20
2007Pop!Tech – Jay Keasling’s Microbes Are Changing the World
Jay Keasling is the personification of creative destruction.? Keasling is an award-winning scientist and the developer of an ultra low-cost source of artemisinin, the active ingredient in anti-malarial drugs.? His company, Amyris Biotechnologies, engineers microbes that produce artemisinin at...
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