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Need Funding? Like Prizes? Innocentive May Be Your Answer
"But Rob, the impact investing community doesn’t do startups, doesn’t do angel. The traditional VCs won’t look at me because financial return expectations don’t match up; traditional philanthropists won’t because I’m a for-profit. Any ideas?"Welcome to my regular conversations with promising, early stage social entrepreneurs.
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Accessing Finance: Old Challenges, New Solutions
This is the second in a series of interviews with Simon Winter, TechnoServe’s Senior Vice President of Development. This interview explores impediments small and growing business face in accessing capital, the limits of microfinance and the strong potential for angel investing models and networks in emerging markets.
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Write Effectively: NextBillion Case Writing Competition Webinar
As part of the NextBillion Case Competition, we are offering an interactive webinar on How to Write Effective Business Cases. It will short, sweet, and full of useful pointers that will catapult you to the $1000 1st place cash prize. If not, it will make you a better writer and communicator anyway.
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Motivating MNCs to Engage BoP as Consumers and Producers
At the Net Impact Conference this past weekend, I was reminded that, by enlarge, multinational companies (MNCs) may have the interest in the BoP, but those with a deep understanding of their customers and how they live are still in very much in the minority. Dileepan Siva, Senior Manager for the Synergos Institute, offered some solutions.
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After ’07-’08 Crisis, A New Focus on Food Security, Sustainable Solutions
This is the first in a series of interviews with Simon Winter, TechnoServe’s Senior Vice President of Development. This interview explores the state of global food security initiatives, as well as identifying opportunities private firms can play in sustainable solutions for enhancing food quality and nutrition levels for BoP consumers.
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Friday Roundup – 10/29/10: Happy Birthday, Agora Partnerships
Agora Partnerships, a pioneer in our industry, celebrated its fifth anniversary this week in New York City. I was fortunate to attend a reception where founders, directors, friends and supporters discussed what’s next for the organization.
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What Works? What Doesn?t? Applying the BoP Framework
The Base of the Pyramid Impact Assessment Workshop, hosted by the William Davidson Institute, aimed at helping them separate the wheat from the chaff when it comes to economic and social impact. The tricky part is applying these important concepts to BoP ventures.
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Next Year?s SoCap@State to Comprise An Expansive ?Ecosystem?
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the State Department and SoCap will formally linkup in Washington, D.C. for SoCap@State next year. SoCap Co-Founder Kevin Jones responds to what this means for SoCap, the sector and the broader agenda.
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