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Job: Country Director for New Ventures India
If you?are currently located in/ can re-locate to Hyderabad,?have a strong?interest in the acceleration of sustainable SMEs and their role as a driver for sustainable development, or know someone who?fulfills these characteristics, please read on and see the attached file for a full job...
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Market Creation at the Base of the Pyramid: It Isn’t Easy
"...you can have the very best technology in the world, and if you don’t get it out there and market it, if you don’t have a distribution network, then it doesn’t have any impact.” Martin Fisher, Co-Founder and CEO, KickStartCreating markets at the base of the pyramid...
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Moving NextBillion.net’s Servers – We’re Back Online
Thanks for your patience.? We’ve moved NextBillion.net’s servers and re-activated commenting.? Everything should be working as usual.? If you run into any issues or have questions about why we’re making the change, feel free to contact us or leave a comment. (Wondering what...
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Moving NextBillion.net’s Servers
Around 12:00 Eastern Daylight Time today, NextBillion.net will be moving to a new server. During the changeover, comments will be disabled throughout the site. Blog posts, news stories, events, resources and other existing materials will be accessible - you just won’t be able to chime in...
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Social Entrepreneurs from GSBI 2008: Meet Tendai Mawunga from Pump Aid, Zimbabwe and Malawi
Tendai used to be a teacher in his native Zimbabwe, until he saw one of his students died for reasons related to poor water quality. That event changed his life’s direction and led him to become one of the founding members of Pump Aid, an NGO that has brought safe drinking water to thousands...
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Drishtee: Rural Health Franchising
One in eight people on the planet lives in an Indian village. That’s 775 million people, about half of whom live on less than $1 per day.To Drishtee and its founder, Satyan Mishra, these numbers aren’t daunting; rather, they represent an incredible opportunity. Drishtee is franchisor...
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Introducing Social Entrepreneurs from GSBI 2008: Meet David Okello, from Coast Coconut Farms in Keny
The last 10 days have been truly exciting ones. I have had the amazing opportunity to participate in this year’s Global Social Benefit Incubator at Santa Clara University, a two-week in-residence mentoring program with social entrepreneurs from around the world. Over the next few days...
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A Hothouse of Creativity: From GSBI 2008
It’s pretty intense, the process Francisco and I are engaged in this past week and the coming one. Take 16 social entrepreneurs from a dozen countries on three continents, some very knowledgeable faculty, and more than a high-powered dozen mentors and guest lecturers from Silicon Valley...
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