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The ?Big Squat? and the Market Opportunity in Tackling Sanitation Challenges
If you’d been to the Chowpatty beach in Mumbai on November 19, you would have found a group of people squatting together with a couple of portable toilets in the vicinity. They were not alone. People all over the world were celebrating the "World Toilet Day" by taking part in "The Big Squat".
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Staff Transitions: The NextBillion Team Continues to Evolve
One of the privileges of working on NextBillion.net is having the opportunity to meet, discuss and interact with a talented group of Staff Writers that are making important contributions to the BoP movement from different positions and perspectives. Today, NextBillion announces the departure of two Staff Writers and the arrival of a new one.
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Weekly Roundup: Ripples Across the Arabian Sea
Water innovation spreads from India to East Africa, MFI’s contemplate housing finance, and January deadlines for upcoming opportunities cloud MBA holiday plans.
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MFIs Wary of Housing Loans over Default Fears
Bangalore: Concerns of defaults are holding back microfinance institutions, or MFIs, from a full-fledged expansion into home loans even as they seek to turn their clientele of poor borrowers into consumers and compete with commercial banks. MFIs, established mainly to lend small sums to the unbanked poor to help them earn a living, say there’s potentially a huge demand for home loans among their customers. At least two of seven prominent MFIs that Mint spoke to have started...
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Notes from Indonesia: 2009 New Ventures Investor Forum
Last month I had the distinct pleasure of spending two full days with entrepreneurs from Indonesia during the New Ventures Investor Forum. These entrepreneurs are unique in many ways - but bound together by a sincere desire to lead change in Indonesia. through innovation, inclusion of BoP markets and environmental sustainability.
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From the Field, Part 5: The Launch and Seeing the Vision Become Flesh
The formal launch was perhaps the most difficult part of the journey so far. Because both the Governor of the State and the Finance Minister were coming, the local political officials were determined that everything should be perfect.
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Village Capital Announces Peer-Selected Investment Funds
If you have a business idea to help improve the world, listen up. The newly-announced West Coast Village Capital (WCVC) is a social venture program that brings entrepreneurs together to learn from and support each other’s social enterprises. Unlike most incubators or seed funds, however, WCVC also puts the investment decision in the hands of...
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Notes from the Field, Part 4: A Hybrid Approach to Building a Company
Building a new venture from scratch often takes a lot of time. Operating in a rural area with imperfect infrastructure only makes it harder. But we were able to leverage the existing field force of our Indian partner to begin construction of our healthpoint units almost immediately after incorporation.
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