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If you paid for it, you probably won’t be mad that it’s near your house. That, at least is what the proponents of green energy are saying.
Crowdfunding May Cut `Not in My Backyard’ Risk for RenewablesBlog Post
Polio has almost totally been eliminated and Rotary International deserves much of the credit. As an added bonus, this U.S.-based service organization composed of business and professional leaders has given the world a playbook to fight deadly diseases.
Weekly Roundup 11-6-15: Rotary provides blueprint against disease, but passion’s hard to duplicateBlog Post
The world of impact investing is getting swamped with jargon and insider’s terminology, says Alexandra Prather. Rather than creating an echo chamber of intellectual isolation, the impact ecosystem needs to dumb down the rhetoric and create a more inclusive and approachable dialogue. Ultimately, we need to "Trump" impact investing.
Don’t Be a ‘Loser’: Why impact investing could benefit from Donald Trump’s playbookBlog Post
Khosla Impact Fund is an early stage equity fund that focuses on tech startups that help improve the standard of living at the BoP around the world, with a particular focus on India and East and West Africa. In this interview, recorded at the recent SOCAP15 conference, general partner Sandhya Hegde discusses the sectors and social issues that lend themselves to tech solutions, how Khosla works to help grow the ecosystem for their investees, and other issues related to the impact of tech on the developing world.
The Impact of Tech: Sandhya Hegde of Khosla Impact Fund discusses how high-tech solutions can transform lives at the BoPBlog Post
Emerging economies – and the businesses that serve them – have come a long way in the past decade. And so has NextBillion. Today represents another key step in our evolution, as we unveil a comprehensively redesigned website.
Welcome to the New NextBillion: As we celebrate 10 years online, we unveil a comprehensively redesigned websiteNews
As drug-makers attempt to move up the value chain to manufacture sophisticated new medicines in China, General Electric Co. wants to sell them factories: right off the shelf. “It’s one single manufacturing concept that we can replicate around the world,” said Olivier Loeillot, GE Healthcare Life Sciences’ Asia general manager.
GE ships ready-made drug factories from Berlin to BeijingBlog Post
NexThought Monday – The Next Billion, the Next DecadeBlog Post
We hope you can forgive this very abbreviated weekly roundup. See, we’re sort of in the middle of something: A new website.
Weekly Roundup 10-30-15: A New NextBillion is Coming Next Week
Yes, next week we’re launching a redesigned and reimagined NextBillion.net. We’re excited about the possibilities and potential for the new site, which we will unveil in the coming days.
