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Pop!Tech – Social Innovation Accelerator Launched
Today at Pop!Tech, curator Andrew Zolli announced the launch of the Pop!Tech Social Innovation Accelerator.? I’ll have most of the official press release copied below, but I also want to add my 2 cents. First of all, this is a great idea, though it isn’t the first “social...
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Pop!Tech – Innovation From the Bottom Up
Pop!Tech session two is about to start, and I’m pumped. As you’ll see from the schedule, the speakers in session two (Jessica Flannery, Paul Polak, and Adrian Bowyer) are probably the most apropos for our “base of the pyramid” audience here at NextBillion.net. Not only that,...
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Rising Ventures: MinYiYuan Connects Folk Art With National Markets
Scot Fang interviews the founder of MinYiYuan, a company that is bringing prosperity to a rural region of China by connecting local handicraft traditions with a broader market for folk arts. PDF Version China?s emergence as an economic powerhouse is not exactly news, but millions of...
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Guest Post: Lord Brown and “Making Private Capital Work for the Poor”
Guest blogger Chaz Littlejohn is the Director of Finance for Nourish International UNC Chapter, and is finishing his last semester at the University of North Carolina in the Economics program. At Nourish International, Chaz has applied his economics training to analyzing and improving how...
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“Next Billion” Thinking and Big Business
Guest blogger Bill Kramer was, until recently, WRI?s Director of Education and Training for the Markets & Enterprise Program, and Deputy Director of Development Through Enterprise. He now runs Global Challenge Network, an executive education and training company. His email is...
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Jobs – Triple Jump – Investment and Senior Investment Officers
Triple Jump currently is hiring for two positions: Investment Officer and Senior Investment Officer. Both positions are based in Amsterdam, and are initially for one year.Triple Jump is a fund management company specializing in managing funds that invest in financial institutions offering...
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“Filling the Finance Gap” The Clinton Global Initiative’s Poverty Alleviation Working Group Session
How do we get more capital to the people who want to start their own SMEs? It is difficult to make a case for this “missing middle.” NextBillion has identified this problem in the past, and it seems like now the issue is beginning to unfold in the development debate: the Clinton...
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Rising Ventures: CBPAK ’s Sustainable Styrofoam Replacement
In a recent interview with New Ventures staff, CBPAK founder Claudio Bastos discusses how his company is bringing a unique solution to Brazil’s massive packaging industry.PDF version available here Claudio Bastos had plenty of reasons to found his sustainable packaging company, CBPAK, in...
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