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Intellecap Launches Magazine Dedicated to Social Enterprise
Intellecap launched Beyond Profit, a print and online magazine dedicated to the businesses, people and ideas within the social enterprise space, on April 28. The inaugural issue was released at Sankalp 2009, South Asia?s largest social enterprise business and investment forum.
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Stop Talking, Start Making: Maker Faire Africa
In this vein, I am really excited to learn about a truly innovative "non-conference". Maker Faire Africa, which will be held in Ghana this August, is no-talk, all-action. The 3-day event will bring together roboticists, hobbyists, blacksmiths - MAKERS - to jam collectively on home-grown solutions to local problems.
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Inside the Entrepreneur’s Studio: A Conversation with Mo Ibrahim
Most of you are probably familiar with the story of Dr. Mo Ibrahim, the British-Sudanese entrepreneur who built Celtel (now Zain) into one of the most successful telcos on the African continent (and beyond). Then you can imagine my surprise when the following email landed in my inbox:
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PhD Thesis Takes the Pulse of Base of the Pyramid Businesses
Martin Klein, PhD from the Rotterdam School of Management, examines common postulates of what it means to work at the BoP level thanks to an extensive survey of 143 BoP firms working in 105 countries. He explains how some challenges may vary throughout the lifetime of a BoP business as well as the inherent tensions in managing BoP businesses.
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The Working Capital Loan Gap in India
I arrived back to the cozy office of Global Easy Water Products (GEWP) with Pratyush Pandey, the company?s Managing Director, after a long day of visiting farmers on the outskirts of Aurangabad, Maharashtra. These farmers were customers of GEWP?s ?KB Drip? irrigation products. After countless visits with GEWP...
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Reflections on ’Go’: Big Red MicroCapital
BRM MicroCapital is a "student-run organization that spurs microenterprise development by assisting self-employed individuals to reach their business goals." Several Johnson School students, now newly minted alums-Andrea Findley, Taryn Goodman, Ryan Kelley, Kandea Mosley, and Mike Pezone-spent more than a year bringing this concept to life.
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Be Inspired: Echoing Green Announces Its 2009 Fellows
SKS Microfinance, GreenMango, PharmaSecure, Mobile Metrix and One Acre Fund may sound like familiar names to NextBillion readers and those that follow the "goings on" in this base of the pyramid space. They have something in common: strong and commited leaders who were supported by Echoing Green at some point. 2009 Fellows were announced today...
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Online Conference: The Role of the Private Sector in Poverty Alleviation at the Base of the Pyramid
NextBillion announces a unique opportunity for our community to participate in a global online conference called ?The Role of the Private Sector in Poverty Alleviation at the Base of the Pyramid? hosted by Base of the Pyramid expert Monica Touesnard.
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