Articles by Scott Anderson
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Friday
October 3
2014Watch the Replay of our Google Hangout with William Warshauer, TechnoServe’s New President & CEO
TechnoServe is an organization at the center of food security, farmer incomes and environmental sustainability. You’ve heard a lot from TechnoServe experts here on NextBillion, including a post just last week about outgrower farming models. So we’re glad to have the opportunity to host TechnoServe’s new president and CEO Will Warshauer, who has agreed to join us for our next Google Hangout here at NextBillion.
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- Agriculture
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Wednesday
October 1
2014NextBillion’s Most-Viewed, Most-Shared Posts for August: Investable supply chains, ATMS for all in India and angels in the UK
Investments in more ethical supply chains, India’s big ATM for all push (and the push back), and what it means to be an impact angel investor – these were among our popular and most shared posts for August.
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Saturday
September 27
2014Weekly Roundup – 9/27/14: At the Business Call to Action Forum, cracking the SDG code
At the Business Call to Action Forum 2014 this week in New York City, cracking the code of sustainability.
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- Environment
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Saturday
September 13
2014Weekly Roundup 9-13-14: Movirtu’s Blackberry buyout and a $400M leap from LeapFrog
“Cloud phone” company Movirtu was best known, at least among the social enterprise crowd, for its BoP-focused applications. But it appears that flagging smartphone provider Blackberry found its top of the pyramid technology more enticing. Blackberry on Thursday announced it had purchased Movirtu for an undisclosed amount.
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Thursday
September 11
2014Vittana to “cease to exist as a standalone organization”: The education-focused P2P microlender will wind down in its current form, its CEO says
“One of our founding beliefs was that once we reached scale, we could do our work sustainably, without shifting costs and risk onto the students,” wrote CEO Robin Wolander in announcing Vittana’s wind-down. “But after five years ... we haven’t found a robust business model to wean ourselves off that support.”
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- Education
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- lending, microfinance
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Friday
August 29
2014Weekly Roundup 8/29/14 – Getting In While the Getting’s Good: Why the Bain Capital, TOMS deal could be the first of many
Going into the Social Capital Markets Conference (SOCAP14) next week, Bain Capital’s 50 percent purchase of TOMS Shoes for a reported $300 plus million was reverberating throughout social media. Most of the reactions in the impact investing community were positive, although many continued to question buy-one, give-one, model.
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Tuesday
August 26
2014The Most-Viewed, Most-Shared NextBillion Posts for July
July’s most popular posts dug into the how-to of selling new technology products to low-income customers, the case for closer collaboration between microfinance and health care industries, and why philanthropic organizations could and should be the glue that holds the social enterprise sector together.
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- Health Care
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Saturday
August 23
2014Weekly Roundup – 8/23/14: From cola to credit, the customer is always right
Despite the many and ongoing debates in economic and academic circles, there’s a role to play for multinationals, startups, and small and medium sized companies in alleviating poverty and reaching the underserved. Three examples this week hammered home the idea that, no matter the size of the business or its model, it all starts with the customer.
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