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Designing for the BOP: 9 Tips for Success, Pitfalls to Avoid When Evaluating a Project
Success isn?t about completing a defined scope or work, it may not even be about sales or revenue. It?s about impact. After five years I?m just starting to figure out what that means. Tim Prestero, the Executive Director of Design That Matters, has it drilled down to a science. We compared notes recently and distilled our thoughts.
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Break No Promises
With $500 million and marching orders from the Gates Foundation, banks, microfinance institutions, mobile phone operators, regulators, retailers, and telecom companies, will now venture into a world filled with informal financial mechanisms, often deeply embedded in culture and history. Will these informal mechanisms be brought along or trampled?
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Shining a (Solar) Light on Patient Capital
The IFC/World Bank’s Lighting Africa Program report, Solar Lighting for the Base of the Pyramid, found Africa will be the world’s largest market for solar portable lights by 2015. But it will remain only potential without patient capital. Acumen CEO Jaqueline Novogratz says acceptance of patient capital is moving far faster than microfinance did.
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Friday Roundup – 11/19/10: Is Patient Capital Changing Development?
It’s been a fun and productive week. I had the pleasure to visit Ann Arbor and the impressive grounds of the Ross School of Business, where our colleagues at the William Davidson Institute hosted a one day workshop to discuss the future of NextBillion as a project.
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After the Dust Has Settled… Enduring Hybrid Value at CGI
At the end of September, and for the second year in a row, I found myself in the hype and occasional motorcade-induced street closure that is the Clinton Global Initiative. After five years, is CGI living up to its story of creating action, not conversation, and sparking new collaborations between industry and the NGO sector?
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Forum Looks at BoP in Brazil
Tomorrow in S?o Paulo, Brazil, NextBillion along with several other stakeholders, will participate an event on "Modelos De Negocios Que Reduzem a Pobreza" or for the non-Portuguese speaker, Business Models that Reduce Poverty. I briefly spoke with Rob Parkison, Coordinator for ANDE’s Brazil Regional Hub and organizer of the event.
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Impact Investing Forum Coming Up ? Testing the ground in Europe
From Nov. 29 to Dec. 1, institutional and private investors, foundations, social investment funds and all those already active or interested in entering the field are invited to come to London for a series of workshops and panels to dive deeper into current issues. It will be a good chance to take Europe’s temperature on impact investing.
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Being Comfortable With Uncertainty and Other ’Letters’ to Entrepreneurs
Ricardo Levy is one of those rare entrepreneurs who is reflective and even analytical about the entrepreneurial process, and he’s written a book reflecting on those challenges, typical of those every entrepreneur faces, and how he solved them. The book, Letters To a Young Entrepreneur, is explicitly a guidebook for young entrepreneurs.
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