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A Few Things Every Entrepreneur Should Know About Communication

While money, technology and innovation are considered more glamorous and therefore more important, communication is the single most critical factor in the success of any endeavor. I don’t mean the numbing volume of information and opinions from "experts." Communication is a system, and like all systems, it is perfectly designed to produce results.

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NextBillion On Your iPad, Thanks To Ashoka Changemakers, Flipboard

If you’ve got an Apple iPad, then you’ve got access to NextBillion.net in full, clear, tablet vibrancy ... for free. Thanks to our content partner, Ashoka Changemakers, NextBillion has been included in Flipboard, a quickly growing, personalize-able e-magazine that pulls together sources and streams from numerous publications and blogs.

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NexThought Monday: What Makes A ?Social Business City??

Last week at Social Business Forum Asia 2011, The Grameen Creative Lab, named Fukuoka, Japan a "Social Business City." Fukuoka is the second city to receive that moniker, following Wiesbaden, Germany. But what exactly does being a Social Business City mean? I put that question to Daniel Nowack, the project lead for Social Business City Wiesbaden.

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Friday Roundup ? 7/29/11: Happy BDay Open IDEO, Weekend/Summer Reads, Hat Tips for Lawyers

The dog days of summer are upon us, but you wouldn’t know it based on this week’s roundup. It’s a variable potpourri of activity this week. OpenIDEO, is celebrating its first birthday. But instead of kicking back with a well-designed cake and ergonomically pleasing pointy party hats, the offshoot of social design firm IDEO is challenging itself.

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Disruptive Startups That Don’t Get Funded

Coca-Cola ( KO ) sells millions of bottles of its fizzy sugar water in the poorest villages of the world at 15¢ to 25¢ per bottle-prices locals can barely afford. What would happen to the multinational’s business if a well-funded Chinese soft drink startup decided to crash that market with a sweet but relatively nutritious beverage it sold for 5¢ a bottle? Coke would most likely ge...

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Bloomberg Businessweek (link opens in a new window)

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Working With GE to Develop Products for Rural India: MART

New Delhi, Jul 29 (PTI) Consultancy firm MART today said it is working with US-based diversified giant GE to develop affordable healthcare products for the Indian rural market. The firm that advises big firms such as HUL, Shell, Colgate, Heinz, Intel and John Deere, said it is currently helping GE in developing a host of products, including baby warmers and products to treat cardiac problems. "We are working with GE to develop very affordable healthcare products for rural India," ...

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A Closer Look At Ashoka’s Urban Housing Challenge (With Video)

Ashoka’s Changemakers launched a global competition in November, 2010 - Sustainable Urban Housing: Collaborating for Liveable and Inclusive Communities. For months this online competition provided a dynamic platform for discussion and collaboration. By spring 2011 the panel of judges had the incredible task of selecting the following three winners:

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Friday Roundup ? 7/22/11: The Price to Pay to End Poverty

Charles Kenny, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, this week has a fascinating column in Foreign Policy magazine that placed a price tag on ending ’absolute’ poverty: $100 billion. (That?s just $24 billion more than Apple?s current cash on hand, incidentally). How could it possibly be this low?

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