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Job: Acumen Fund India Portfolio Associate
Acumen Fund is currently seeking highly qualified applicants for the position of India Portfolio Associate.Location: Hyderabad, IndiaAcumen Fund is a global non-profit venture capital fund serving the four billion people living on less than $4 a day. Its objective is to create a blueprint...
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Is There a Third Way to Think About Low-Cost Cars?
By Ethan Arpi and Rob Katz While discussions of Ratan Tata’s 1 lakh car - and other entrants to the ultra-cheap car market - are nothing new to NextBillion.net and many other blogs, the concept received another burst of publicity over the weekend when New York Times columnist Thomas...
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Vaatsalya: BoP Healthcare in India
In 2004, Ashwin Naik had 2 interesting choices. An MBA at MIT’s Sloan School of Management or an opportunity to jump into healthcare for the rural and semi-urban population. Ashwin chose to follow his passion and co-founded Vaatsalya. As Ashwin put it, “it was an opportunity to learn at...
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Babajob: Monster.com Meets Facebook Meets BoP
From The Times of India:When Bradley Montgomery relocated to Bangalore from California, his primary concern as a single parent was to hire a domestic hand not just to cook and clean, but also to tend to his son Aaron (11). His mother chanced upon babajob.com and within days, Montgomery hired...
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Pop!Tech’s Net Impact (Pun Intended)
What’s the net impact of Pop!Tech?? I’ve been thinking about my time in Camden, Maine a lot lately - never more so than while I attended the 2007 Net Impact conference this past week in Nashville (see, pun very much intended.)? In all seriousness however, my trip to Tennessee prompted...
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Ericsson’s Plan: Rural Connectivity for the Millennium Villages
I recently came across an article on CNNMoney.com about world-leading supplier of telecommunications Ericsson?s plan to provide mobile phones and internet connectivity to the Millennium Villages. It caught my attention, since it relates to a flurry of recent activity on NextBillion. We?ve...
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Five Questions For the Guru of CGAP’s Forays into Blogging
CGAP recently launched a new blog on technology and microfinance, led by Communications Officer Jim Rosenberg. Jim has a preternaturally polite nature and speaks with a delicate inflection that almost belies some of the intense experiences of his journalistic background (covering the wreckage...
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StartingBloc Institute for Social Innovation: Apply Now
Social entrepreneurship is more than a buzzword - it is becoming an industry in and of itself. And one of the best niches in this new industry is occupied by a group I know and respect, StartingBloc. A 501(c)3 non-profit organization, StartingBloc runs an Institute for Social Innovation and a...
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