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Social Entrepreneurs, Co-Designers of the Investment Blueprint
Social entrepreneurs need to be more proactive in deal negotiation, offering new insights that can help potential investors better understand the particular features of a social enterprise. In short, social entrepreneurs should position themselves as "co-designers" of the investment. That’s the story of Gustavo Gennuso and Equitas Ventures
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NexThought Monday: Building a Better Value Pump
Social entrepreneurship should not just be about creating products and services that offer a value proposition to the poor. Social entrepreneurs should be focused on enhancing the poor?s value proposition to society. There are two ways do accomplish this: making the poor more useful to society or by reducing the costs faced by the poor.
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Friday Roundup – 6/3/2011: Was Europe ready for SOCAP? Yes!
Eight months ago, just after the announcement of SOCAP coming to Europe, Jonathan Jenkins asked: ?Is Europe ready for SOCAP? himself giving a hesitant ?Maybe not!?- answer. Now we all know better: ?Yes, it was? as Jenkins tweeted on the last day of the conference, which exposed a slowly, but surely, maturing sector.
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IDB Launches First of its Kind BoP LA, Caribbean Forum
With millions in new projects and large multinationals like PepsiCo and CMEX launching new BoP ventures and markets quickly maturing, Latin America is off and running. The Inter-American Development Bank decided the time was right to host the first forum on the Base of the Pyramid (BOP) in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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SOCAP/Europe: Marketplaces Start to Matter
It is an exciting time that requires building the right infrastructure to take impact investing to scale. Marketplaces are key for investors and enterprises to meet as well as to enable efficient capital allocation to the most effective social enterprises.
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Tough Love for Impact Investors – the Europe Session at SOCAP
Social investors are on the hunt for "investable" social enterprises to fill their "deal pipeline." But do all these enterprises want (and need) investment? In the SOCAP/Europe session on "How to Fill the Deal Pipeline in Europe: Changing our Models to Fit the Continent," staff from Ashoka and the Schwab Foundation searched for answers
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SOCAP/Europe: Three Bridges to Capital
SOCAP/Europe featured a number of sessions revolving around the question of how to provide effective and efficient intermediation between investors and entrepreneurs. In "Three Bridges to Capital" three new infrastructure initiatives explained how they contribute to making impact investing more effective.
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Thinking About the Box – Not Just Outside of It
’Think outside of the box’ is one of the most clich?d expressions in English. But when’s the last time we actually defined the box? In her book, Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development, Cal-Berkeley Professor Ananya Roy not only defines the dominant boxes of development, but unpacks their paradoxes, hypocrisy, and absurdities.
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