Articles by Scott Anderson
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Wednesday
December 8
2010Movirtu’s Plan for 4 Million ’Cloud Phone’ Users by 2013
Earlier this month, "Cloud Phone" software company Movirtu announced it would be expanding in 2011 with a Series A investment of $5.5 million and plans to roll out some new products soon. CEO Nigel Waller said the financing will keep the firm on track toward reaching its goal of 4 million users by 2013.
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Monday
December 6
2010Building a Fortune With the BoP: A Video Interview with Ted London
If BoP was a piece of music, then Next Generation Business Strategies for the Base of the Pyramid aims to convert it from an analog to a digital format. A decade after the concept first emerged and myriad businesses have adopted BoP as a guiding principle, veteran and new thought leaders challenge us not to build a fortune at, but WITH, the BoP.
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Friday
December 3
2010Discussing Disqus, the Next Step in NB?s Interactive Community
Next week, we hope to drastically reduce NextBillion’s diet of spam, and more importantly, take the NextBillion community to the next level of interaction. We’ll migrate NextBillion’s existing commenting system to Disqus,an open-source commenting platform that is used by many large publishers, including CNN, Engadget and Mashable.
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Thursday
December 2
2010Gold Stars: The Best of November on NextBillion
The ancient proverb, "you never step in the same river twice" also applies to blogs like NextBillion, where our content tends to flow fast. In an attempt to highlight some great posts before they are digitally washed downstream, I’d like pause at the beginning of each month to call out some of best of NextBillion for the previous month.
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Wednesday
November 24
2010Giving Thanks for Two New NB Staffers
On the eve of Thanksgiving, I’d like to express personal and professional thanks to two NextBillion contributors: Kevin Keepper and Oscar Abello.I’m happy to announce Kevin has agreed to sign on as a NextBillion Editor and Oscar has come on board as a Staff Writer.
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Monday
November 22
2010Shining a (Solar) Light on Patient Capital
The IFC/World Bank’s Lighting Africa Program report, Solar Lighting for the Base of the Pyramid, found Africa will be the world’s largest market for solar portable lights by 2015. But it will remain only potential without patient capital. Acumen CEO Jaqueline Novogratz says acceptance of patient capital is moving far faster than microfinance did.
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Thursday
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
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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