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With 2.7 million customer base, iPay gears up to become a billion-dollar company in India
iPay offers a tablet based e-inventory which connects the consumers to e-sellers through local retailers, allowing consumers in smaller cities to purchase online by paying offline.
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The Big Advantages of Being Small: How a mobile money startup beat the major players in Zambia
Once called “the best kept secret in Africa,” the digital finance company Zoona has quickly advanced from a scrappy startup to one of the leading mobile money providers in Zambia. Jungwon Byun describes how, despite being outmatched in terms of size and capital, Zoona has outcompeted the telcos and established banks in the country.
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Thundafund: The crowdfunding platform made for Africa
One South African company has created an ethically-conscious platform for entrepreneurs from the continent -- and it's leaving its rivals by the wayside in the process.
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NexThought Monday – How 5,000 Stranded Flip-Flops Almost Doomed Three Social Startups
Five years ago, Village Capital made its first investment – in Feelgoodz, the a U.S. fair-trade rubber company, which sells comfortable flip-flops that are responsibly manufactured in South Asia. Feelgoodz got a major purchase order from Whole Foods that January. Sounds like a great story, so why is the headline so depressing?
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CSR in Practice: Creating business value and development impact in the WASH sector
Neil Jeffery, CEO of Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor, believes the WASH sector affords opportunities for companies to create business value and generate lasting social impact at the same time – and points to five multinationals to prove it.
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Indonesia to Unleash Loan Funds as Micro-lending Rates Cut
Indonesia wants to unleash 30 trillion rupiah ($2.3 billion) of new loans for small businesses and halve some bank micro lending rates to help revive an economy running at its slowest pace in five years.
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Four Things I Learned About Surviving The Long Game of Social Enterprise
Parag Gupta, founder of Waste Ventures Charities, a non-profit, and for-profit Waste Capital Partners, recently asked a long-time social entrepreneur and investor what advice he would give now that impact investing had entered the mainstream. The mentor indicated that for a social entrepreneur to achieve the desired impact and reach a point of sustainability, it takes time – around 14 years.
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An Angel Network That Invests Only In Ethiopian Ventures
RENEW Strategies, an impact investment advisory firm that manages a network of wealthy families with an interest in African development, is part of the Impact Angel Network, which currently invests entirely in Ethiopian ventures.
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