Articles by Scott Anderson
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Wednesday
July 11
2012Say Hola to the Nuevo NextBillion en Español
We’re really excited to share what is the most substantial overhaul of NextBillion en Espanol (NextBillion Spanish) since its launch in 2008. Our sister site focuses on social enterprise development and BoP best practices across Latin America.
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Sunday
July 1
2012Weekly Roundup: The Fatal Flaw @ the BoP?: Readers: Have a Question for Erik Simanis? Ask Away
Erik Simanis has been generating significant buzz with two essays published in the Harvard Business Review: Businesses Serving the Poor Need to Get Over Their Unease About Profit and Reality Check at the Bottom of the Pyramid. In the latter, Simanis says BoP practice has a fatal flaw. I’m planning to speak with Simanis soon, so if you have question let me know
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Saturday
June 16
2012Weekly Roundup: Taking the Long View on Capitalism
The Management Innovation eXchange (MIX) bills itself as an “open innovation project aimed at reinventing management for the 21st century. The premise: while "modern" management is one of humankind’s most important inventions, it is now a mature technology that must be reinvented for a new age.” That’s evident from the winning submissions to the Long-Term Capitalism Challenge.
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Wednesday
June 13
2012(With Video) Mi Tienda’s Big Expansion to Supply Network of Mom & Pop Stores Across Mexico
In 1999, social enterprise Mi Tienda was founded to serve these shop owners, many of whom are women, with durable goods as well as operational training and credit to expand. Mi Tienda Chairman and CEO Luis Velasco said the operation had been in pilot phase for about nine years. But today, the network of 6,000 shops is preparing to ambitiously expand to 20,000 in the next five years.
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- supply chains
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Saturday
June 9
2012Weekly Roundup: Extending Customer Credit – the Way to Scale?
This week we received the exciting news that VisonSpring has sold more than one million pairs affordable eyeglasses customers living at the Base of the Pyramid. But for every VisionSpring, surely there are countless other social startups that have failed to reach scale, and not necessarily because they are marketing an inferior product. It might be because their customers cannot reasonably afford to make a purchase, even one as “small” as $10. This is the need identified by Invested Development, which announced the creation of the Impact Factoring Fund, (IFF) that looks to provide short-term liquidity and working capital to early stage, high-growth companies in emerging markets.
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Guest Articles
Wednesday
June 6
2012Introducing the 2013 NextBillion Case Writing Competition Judges
Winning cases for the NextBillion Case Writing Competition will be published and likely adopted by numerous university professors instructing the next generation of business leaders. So we’re happy to have a team of judges with seriously strong CVs and a depth of experience in the worlds of academia, consulting, development, and business.
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- Education, Social Enterprise
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Guest Articles
Saturday
June 2
2012Weekly Roundup: Bringing Broadband to the BoP and Other Insights From OMJ’s BoP Week
Like housing, expanding broadband requires close collaboration with public and private stakeholders, and a willingness to build trust across them. Building that trust was part of the mission of the Opportunities for the Majority’s Strategic Partners Dialogue, which brought together government officials, financers, NGOs, and, of course, entrepreneurs to discuss how policy innovation can be a catalyst for market-based solutions to poverty in both broadband and housing.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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Wednesday
May 30
2012On the Upswing: ANDE’s 2011 Impact Report
According to the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs, over the past three years, fundraising targets for funds focused on small and growing businesses increased by 71 percent, reaching $3.73 billion in 2011. During this same time, 102 SGB funds completed fundraising efforts and began making investments.
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- Investing
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- scale