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Roundup – 3/18/12: When Sharing Makes Sense
For social businesses, the perpetual pursuit of a model that works, a reliable customer base, honed relevant products, and a social impact can blot out all but the sun. Exposing your company to collaboration with a competitor to share technology or distribution networks, is an anathema to most social entrepreneurs Yotam Ariel argued this week.
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Village Capital Expanding to Kenya, China in partnership with ANDE, Potencia Ventures
What if entrepreneurs could invest in each other? When we launched Village Capital three years ago, that’s the question we asked. And after ten pilots worldwide in four countries the answer is clear: peer-selected investment allows more companies to get funding and support faster, more effectively, and at lower-cost. This spring, Village Capital is coming to China and Nairobi with new partners.
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- Social Enterprise
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So You Want to Start a Social Enterprise? 10 Legal Questions Founders Should Ask Themselves and Their Partners First
As a corporate lawyer working at the intersection of start-up space and social enterprise sectors, I often find myself assisting co-founders in structuring relationships. The conversations are inherently complex; so here 10 questions I would advise founders and partners ask one another before launching a social enterprise.
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Assembling a Network for Impact Across Latin America
How far has impact investing come in Latin America, and what steps need to be taken to unleash the potential of business to address social and environmental problems in the region? These are the questions that more than 300 leaders in the impact investing field came together to address in Merida, Mexico at last week’s Foro Latinoamericano de Inversion de Impacto (Latin American Impact Investing Forum), hosted by New Ventures Mexico.
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Scaling up Environmental Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies – Framing the Discussion
Although environmental entrepreneurship continues to hold great promise for sustainable development, it also faces great challenges from an overall market perspective. To find some answers to these challenges, we interviewed a number of pioneers in environmental entrepreneurship development.
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Between Multinational Buyers and Small Farmers, Root Capital Looks to Manage Growth
Willie Foote, founder and CEO of the social investment fund Root Capital, said it is poised for significant growth in the next five years. The challenge, he said, will be in managing that growth.Root expects to triple its portfolio in the next five years to $170 million and build credit up so that it can disburse $284 million in one year.
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Paul Polman, CEO, Unilever: Winning with Purpose – A message to members of Business Fights Poverty
Business has been a powerful force in improving the lives of millions of people on our planet – whether through product and service innovation, job creation or new opportunities for suppliers and distributors. Yet, I believe business can do so much more.
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- Environment
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Vikram Gandhi Sets Up Own Investment Bank
It will handle domestic and cross-border deals and advise high networth individuals and global institutional investors such as pension funds and sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) which are looking to increase their allocation to India
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- South Asia
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