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India’s Startup Focus Needs to Include Social Enterprises: How the 2014 budget can improve the ecosystem
The initial Indian budget, recently tabled by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, has focused on startups and entrepreneurs by setting aside INR 10,000 Crores (USD $1.6 billion) in various initiatives. But it’s also essential that social enterprises and their specific funding requirements are considered.
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- Social Enterprise
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The Long Road to Scale: Deciphering the mHealth value chain for family planning
CycleTel helps women access family planning on their phones. But before its developers at Georgetown University could begin with product development, they had to understand the nuances of delivering personal information on a mobile phone.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Weekly Roundup – 7/4/14: Finding best buys in global health, and not falling in love with ideas
The Medical Credit Fund recently won OPIC’s Access to Finance award, for figuring out ways to give loans to small rural health clinics in Tanzania, Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria. The kicker: The fund has given loans to more than 500 health care providers and its repayment rate is 97.3 percent.
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Supporting the Growth of Inclusive Businesses: Three lessons on ‘industry facilitation’
In looking beyond individual organizations trying to grow their business models, the Results for Development Institute saw some common themes about what industry facilitators can do to support the growth of inclusive industries.
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- Education, Health Care
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Impact investor money chasing very few investible companies in India
Venky Natarajan, Managing Partner at impact investment fund Lok Capital, speaks to BUSINESS TODAY about impact investing in India.
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- South Asia
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4 Ways to Supercharge Your Social Enterprise Through Accountability
The social enterprise sector is hot—it may be worth well over $500 billion in the US alone. But if social business is to solve many of the world’s most pressing problems, we have to make sure it has both internal and external accountability systems in place to do so.
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A New Pursuit For Social Entrepreneurship: Profits
John Schoch, CEO of Profile Products — a $70 million company that manufactures and distributes products for soil and water management in 90 countries — decided four years ago to direct his company’s expertise to a global crisis: clean water.
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Is Warby Parker Too Good to Last?
The first thing to know is that I’m wearing a pair of Warby Parker glasses as I write this. My bias is as plain as the frames on my face. I like the company I’m writing about.
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- Health Care