Posts by Scott Anderson
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Thursday
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November 18
2010Forum Looks at BoP in Brazil
Tomorrow in S?o Paulo, Brazil, NextBillion along with several other stakeholders, will participate an event on "Modelos De Negocios Que Reduzem a Pobreza" or for the non-Portuguese speaker, Business Models that Reduce Poverty. I briefly spoke with Rob Parkison, Coordinator for ANDE’s Brazil Regional Hub and organizer of the event.
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Monday
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November 15
2010Global Entrepreneurship Week: Let’s Get to Work
With 100 countries, 40,000 events and 10 million people, Global Entrepreneurship Week has grown exponentially with the global economic turndown. And never before have so many people had access to so many good ideas for starting and flourishing new enterprises.
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- Entrepreneurship, Technology
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Monday
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November 8
2010NextThought Monday: A Closer Look at the Numbers Behind Branchless Banking
While the New York Times’ Thomas Friedman breathlessly reports on the latest mobile banking advancement in India, can we really believe the hype? Mark Pickens, Microfinance Analyst with CGAP’s Technology Program, says based on his study of 18 branchless banking providers, in fact, we can.
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Tuesday
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November 2
2010Motivating MNCs to Engage BoP as Consumers and Producers
At the Net Impact Conference this past weekend, I was reminded that, by enlarge, multinational companies (MNCs) may have the interest in the BoP, but those with a deep understanding of their customers and how they live are still in very much in the minority. Dileepan Siva, Senior Manager for the Synergos Institute, offered some solutions.
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Saturday
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October 30
2010Net Impact: Getting to Profit in Africa’s BoP
S.C. Johnson & Son’s venture to supply cleaning products to entrepreneurs for sanitizing public bathrooms in largely slum areas of Mathare, Kenya, (with the goal of reducing sanitation-remedied ailments like diarrhea), sounds like a perfect blueprint for a sustainable BoP business. But after more than two years, it’s still not profitable.
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October 28
2010What Works? What Doesn?t? Applying the BoP Framework
The Base of the Pyramid Impact Assessment Workshop, hosted by the William Davidson Institute, aimed at helping them separate the wheat from the chaff when it comes to economic and social impact. The tricky part is applying these important concepts to BoP ventures.
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Monday
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October 25
2010Next Year?s SoCap@State to Comprise An Expansive ?Ecosystem?
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the State Department and SoCap will formally linkup in Washington, D.C. for SoCap@State next year. SoCap Co-Founder Kevin Jones responds to what this means for SoCap, the sector and the broader agenda.
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Monday
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October 18
2010NextThought Monday: Trading on the Social Entrepreneur Asset Class Idea
Creating an asset class for social entrepreneurship not only engenders an aura of solid ground for investors, both institutional and private, it could formally connect social entrepreneurs with a far wider scope of capital markets. Though not necessarily a new idea, it would seem many minds are acquiescing around the concept.
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