Articles by Shital Shah
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Tuesday
April 26
2011With Info, LaborVoices Aims to Revolutionize Migrant Labor Markets
Global labor markets are complex and rife with power imbalances: dangerous working conditions, difficult hours, abusive employers, human trafficking and even slavery. How does one create a more humane and fair scenario? LaborVoices, a new startup social enterprise, aims to place power back into the hands of the worker, starting with information.
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Tuesday
November 30
2010iuMAP: The Next Level of Micro-credit is Distributor Finance
Many social enterprises focused on BoP customers rely on independent or franchised distributors that also are from poor communities and need financing to cover startup equipment and inventory costs. Given the urgency to scale solutions, finding workable ways to fund distribution systems is a critically important - but difficult - endeavor.
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Thursday
August 26
2010Support for Microfranchising: Knowledge, Funding and Missing Links
For the last month or so, we’ve covered the different types of microfranchises as they exist today. The series has also included interviews with researchers and practitioners. In this final post, we’ll cover existing support for microfranchising.
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Tuesday
August 24
2010Human Networks for Social Good
Our special on Microfranchising continues. Just as with the business in a bag, infrastructure, and conversion models, the agent network model strengthens the assets of local markets, but in this case by creating franchises through a network of agents that are already embedded in communities.
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Tuesday
August 3
2010“Machine Powered” Entrepreneurs: Infrastructure-based Microfranchising
Continuing our exploration of microfranchising, we’ll move on from discussing the business-in-a-bag model to one that requires a larger physical presence for the franchise: infrastructure based models.
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Thursday
July 22
2010Spotlight on Microfranchising: A Look Into the Future of Social Enterprise
In the previous posts we introduced the iuMAP and discussed the challenges of scaling. For the next few weeks we will focus on microfranchising because it is a model used increasingly by social enterprises as they scale.
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Friday
September 4
2009Social Capital Markets 09: Towards Triple Impact
While SoCap involves a lot of investment lingo and a room full of venture funds and other players with large amounts of capital, a breakout session on "Towards Triple Impact: Sustainable Ventures in Developing Countries" sought to bring together a panel of developing country entrepreneurs.
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Wednesday
September 2
2009Social Capital Markets 2009: Investing at the Intersection of Public Good & Market Discipline
How can a blend of capital and partnerships help address a market failure? During the session on "Investing at the Intersection of Public Good & Market Discipline: The Case of Agricultural Finance," a diverse set of panelists came together to explain the case of agricultural finance and Root Capital’s approach.
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