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Day 1 at SOCAP 10: A Visceral Response
In this entry, I’ll briefly touch on a few key points made during the sessions I attended and conclude with some closing thoughts that I’d like to open up to the NextBillion community.
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Kicking Off SOCAP 10, Novogratz Sets the Tone
Jacqueline Novogratz, founder and CEO of Acumen Fund, gets things started at SOCAP 2010. We?re working in a new and nascent industry that is trying to define itself and has a long way to go, she said.
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Friday Roundup – 10/1/10: Columbia, SOCAP, ANDE and Unreasonable Leadership
Where to start this week? My notebook is packed... I’ll go in this order: Columbia, SOCAP, ANDE and "Unreasonable Leadership".
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The Public Sector View at ANDE: “Doing More with Less”
The following is a wrap-up of some public sector highlights, updates and news from the ANDE 2010 Annual Conference.
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Welcoming Scott Anderson, NextBillion’s New Co-Managing Editor
Today we welcome Scott Anderson to the NextBillion team and community. Scott will work full time on the management of NextBillion.net, based in Ann Arbor at the offices of the William Davidson Institute.
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Countdown to SOCAP: Beyond Innovation
Root Capital is pioneering a model for value chain finance and agricultural lending, mainly in the sustainable natural products space. In a pre-SOCAP conversation, founder William Foote shared with us what’s next for the organization.
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Countdown to SOCAP: Metrics, Environmental Performance and Impact Investing
Two months ago, New Ventures and E+Co launched its Global Green! seminar in Costa Rica, a joint effort to help emerging market entrepreneurs improve and capitalize on their environmental performance. Next week we’ll share what we learned with the audience at SOCAP.
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Countdown to SOCAP: The Fastest Growing Industries and Markets
This post, featuring a conversation with Dalberg’s Shashi Buluswar, is the first in a series that will leading to and cover the third Social Capital Markets Conference - SOCAP. NextBillion is a media partner to SOCAP.
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