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Slaying the Dragon: How Small Businesses Can Fight Corruption in the Developing World (Part 2)
Experts from the Center for International Private Enterprise explain its approach to empowering the private sector in developing countries to fight corruption. The second of this two-part series examines anti-corruption tools used by small, informal businesses and international corporations alike?and encouraging success stories from the field.
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Movirtu’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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Slaying the Dragon: How Small Businesses Can Fight Corruption in the Developing World (Part 1)
Experts from the Center for International Private Enterprise explain its approach to empowering the private sector in developing countries to fight corruption. The first of this two-part series looks at businesses? evolving attitude towards corruption and the many tools they are now using to fight back.
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Recap: Impact Investing Forum 2010
Last week, London was the venue for the Impact Investing Forum - two days covering a range of topics, including the role of different stakeholders, case studies from a variety of sectors and infrastructure initiatives for the impact investing space. It was a great teaser for the kinds of discussions we might also expect from upcoming SOCAP Europe.
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One Laptop Per Child … But What “Laptop”?
The convergence of PCs and mobile phones, is well under way. It’s hard to believe that transformation began in earnest just three years ago when Apple unveiled the iPhone. Today, Africans are turning their late adoption of technology to their advantage by leapfrogging landlines and personal computers to mobile devices, and developers are following.
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Exits for Impact Investment: The Key to Becoming Mainstream
Steve Jobs purchased Pixar in 1986 for $10 million and 20 years later sold the studio Disney for $7.4 billion. Impact investing may never produce exits on that scale, but a report from JP Morgan contains a wealth of key insights into impact investment, including the need for more exits, which could help attract more mainstream investors.
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Building 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 Roundup – 12/3/10: Next Generation Business Strategies for the Base of the Pyramid
This week saw the release of two new pieces of literature that advance the knowledge on market-based approaches to poverty alleviation. We’ll make sure to update our Base of the Pyramid 101 accordingly.
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