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Pop!Tech – Social Innovation Accelerator Launched
Today at Pop!Tech, curator Andrew Zolli announced the launch of the Pop!Tech Social Innovation Accelerator.? I’ll have most of the official press release copied below, but I also want to add my 2 cents. First of all, this is a great idea, though it isn’t the first “social...
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Pop!Tech – On Cell Phones, Entrepreneurship, and African Governance
Last night, I wrote a post about Camden, Maine - where I am attending Pop!Tech 2007.? At the very end, I mentioned that I was heading out to meet up with Nathan Eagle, a MIT entrepreneur-engineer who runs the Entrepreneurial Programming and Research on Mobiles project. Well, I did run into...
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Pop!Tech – Innovation From the Bottom Up
Pop!Tech session two is about to start, and I’m pumped. As you’ll see from the schedule, the speakers in session two (Jessica Flannery, Paul Polak, and Adrian Bowyer) are probably the most apropos for our “base of the pyramid” audience here at NextBillion.net. Not only that,...
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Pop!Tech – Art and Data Driving Change
Want to get someone to change the way they live?? To change their habits, lifestyles, mores, opinions?? Lectures don’t work - almost anyone will zone out.? Data help - but numbers can be soporific, too. It may be obvious to anyone who has ever attended a PowerPoint presentation, but...
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Breaking News: NextBillion Ally Receives $30m Investment
I just received an e-mail from NextBillion ally and BOP enthusiast Michael Hokenson.? Michael is the Managing Director of Minlam Asset Management, a NY-based microfinance hedge fund: Minlam Asset Management LLC is a New York-based investment firm providing financial solutions for emerging...
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Pop!Tech – A Quiet Town Comes Alive
Greetings from Camden, Maine - site of Pop!Tech 2007 and the “quiet town” referred to in this post’s title. I arrived here last night, after a short flight into Portland and a drive up Route 1 along the Maine coast. There’s not a whole lot going on in Camden - it’s...
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Jobs: AMGlobal Consulting, Emerging Markets Consultancy
AMGlobal Consulting currently has two postings for entry-level positions:Research ConsultantThis position is a perfect entry-point for an undergraduate or recent graduate student interested in learning how to work with Emerging Markets, Corporate Social Responsibility and the Bottom of the...
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Rising Ventures: MinYiYuan Connects Folk Art With National Markets
Scot Fang interviews the founder of MinYiYuan, a company that is bringing prosperity to a rural region of China by connecting local handicraft traditions with a broader market for folk arts. PDF Version China?s emergence as an economic powerhouse is not exactly news, but millions of...
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