tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8289978684190011625Mon, 18 Aug 2025 00:25:30 +0000News for entrepreneurs interested in problems of development.http://vendevnews.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (David)Blogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8289978684190011625.post-6225284866487877626Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:48:00 +00002007-12-17T22:55:54.442-08:00The Joint U.S.-China Cooperation on Clean Energy (JUCCCE)JUCCCE is a non-profit organization focused on helping China accelerate 30 years of world experience and development in energy into 10 years. JUCCCE advisors makeup a network of multi-disciplinary leaders in energy efficiency and clean energy supply within China and the US."The heart of an NGO, the mind of a venture capitalist.""The JUCCCEhttp://vendevnews.blogspot.com/2007/12/juccce-brings-energy-technology-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8289978684190011625.post-4677861742484529503Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:28:00 +00002007-12-11T11:15:27.824-08:00Targeting market-based solutions for environmental challenges"The Global Environmental Facility and IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, are launching today the Earth Fund, a new partnership open to the private sector, foundations, and other partners that will support innovative and market-based solutions for the most pressing environmental challenges in developing countries.""The GEF and IFC http://vendevnews.blogspot.com/2007/12/200-million-earth-fund-targets-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8289978684190011625.post-6565373971379868723Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:49:00 +00002007-12-08T09:54:21.508-08:00Slideshow of 10 for-profit companies with social goals from FastCompany.com.I thought BetterWorld Books was interesting.Slideshow of 45 winners of FAST COMPANY/Monitor Group Social Capitalist Awards.Some of the companies that might be instructive models for those interested in development are:KickStart, develops and markets new low-cost technologies in Africa to enable local entrepreneurs to http://vendevnews.blogspot.com/2007/12/examples-of-profitbenefit-companies.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8289978684190011625.post-740832776284291185Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:36:00 +00002007-12-07T08:46:26.638-08:00Social entrepreneurs learn to tap capital markets"Change the world. Make some money. Raise more money, and make more change. It's an appealing prospect. Nonprofits were born because for-profits weren't addressing some market failures--pollution, poverty, illiteracy. Profit won't cure those ills, but it's becoming a bigger part of more solutions. Perhaps it's dawning on us that the cost of capitalhttp://vendevnews.blogspot.com/2007/12/social-capitalism.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8289978684190011625.post-248779684012577667Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:19:00 +00002007-12-04T10:49:20.190-08:00Read the article and view the video of an interview with Harish Hande, who won Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2007. From livemint.com. Excerpts:The next logical step was to set up Selco and to see how sustainable energy like solar can be diffused/ disbursed to rural areas in a way that allowed people to pay and maintain it. A sustainable venture, both in terms of social and commercial returns, http://vendevnews.blogspot.com/2007/12/harish-handes-selco-india-project-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8289978684190011625.post-5655767739974839363Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:11:00 +00002007-12-04T10:16:11.501-08:00With a proven record of success since its inception in 2001, the Acumen Fund has recently been attracting more and more large donors such as the 'Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation' and 'Google.org.' Such providers of philanthropic capital have approached the not-for-profit fund with millions of dollars in support of Acumen's mission-to use entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problem of globalhttp://vendevnews.blogspot.com/2007/12/acumen-fund.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8289978684190011625.post-1166039291534560291Mon, 03 Dec 2007 01:31:00 +00002007-12-02T17:37:04.958-08:00Here is an interesting article from Business Line India about social entrepreneurs building for-profit ventures serving the bottom of the pyramid. It mentions a number of organizations working to stimulate such ventures.http://vendevnews.blogspot.com/2007/12/here-is-interesting-article-from.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8289978684190011625.post-3707489880994814979Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:26:00 +00002007-11-28T12:21:45.159-08:00There is cute slideshow of children using the OLPC laptop in a Nigerian primary school here, along with a BBC news item and a bunch of features about the laptop and its introduction.I want one. Anyone interested in donating an XO to Development Entrepreneur News go here and order. For only $399 plus shipping you will make me happy, and also donate an XO to a school in the developing world. http://vendevnews.blogspot.com/2007/11/one-laptop-per-child-news.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8289978684190011625.post-9024711990589578769Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:21:00 +00002007-11-25T10:01:11.296-08:00Salay Handmade Paper Industry Inc.Mrs. Loreta Capistrano-Rafisura, President of Salay Handmade Paper, has used the principals of fair trade to provide employment to hundreds of people in the town of Salay, Misamis Oriental.This item tells the 20-year history of this cooperative enterprise. Started with 6,000 Philippine pesos, it now employs 250 and its founder has become a leading spokeswoman forhttp://vendevnews.blogspot.com/2007/11/philippine-entreprener-does-well-while.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8289978684190011625.post-3391176337390020086Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:45:00 +00002007-11-15T17:53:43.380-08:00Professors to distribute wiki textbooks freeThis story describes the "Global Text Project" (details here).This is a voluntary/philanthropic project so far, but the article reveals how slowly it is progressing. Could there be a venture opportunity here? The professors' approach is very different from a true entrepreneurial approach.With the wiki editing feature, the texts could be written by http://vendevnews.blogspot.com/2007/11/free-on-line-textbooks-for-developing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8289978684190011625.post-4225148315507362504Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:41:00 +00002007-11-15T17:44:55.446-08:00Doing Well While Doing Good: Can Venture Capital Impact Social Good?This is the title of a meeting being held in Palo Alto, California, on 29 November.More information is available here.http://vendevnews.blogspot.com/2007/11/social-vc-event-palo-alto.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8289978684190011625.post-8347435019764123804Thu, 08 Nov 2007 03:40:00 +00002007-11-07T19:49:52.956-08:00Faculty and students from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are setting out to discover whether applying business principles to public health problems can result in solutions that will save lives in developing countries with limited access to safe drinking water, according to this UNC press release."We know that biosand and ceramic filters and other household water treatment http://vendevnews.blogspot.com/2007/11/students-from-unc-b-school-collaborate.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8289978684190011625.post-4102546754364194588Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:25:00 +00002007-11-05T07:37:14.192-08:00In an attempt to calm the fears of developing countries that climate policy could marginalise traditional development policy, World Bank president Robert Zoellick has called for the integration of both, he told Sueddeutsche Zeitung in an interview.See Forbes.com article.http://vendevnews.blogspot.com/2007/11/wb-head-reassures-developing-countries.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8289978684190011625.post-8791780803258940281Sun, 04 Nov 2007 18:17:00 +00002007-11-04T10:23:36.434-08:00Like so many others who found their fortune with Microsoft, Peter Bladin left the company and embarked on a second career to try to make the world a better place. Few people understand how information enriches the world better than Seattle's technology pioneers. Bladin, a Swedish native who spent 10 years at Microsoft, founded the Grameen Technology Center in 2001 and oversees its work developinghttp://vendevnews.blogspot.com/2007/11/seattle-entrepreneur-deploys-cellphones.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8289978684190011625.post-100114355372119850Sun, 04 Nov 2007 18:10:00 +00002007-11-04T10:17:18.723-08:00In a study of global entrepreneurship, Raffi Amit and Mauro Guillen, both Wharton management professors, have found that a simple, if smart, bureaucratic initiative mattered critically in determining a country's level of entrepreneurship. Specifically, countries that created electronic business registries saw far higher levels of new business formation than those with traditional paper ones. Evenhttp://vendevnews.blogspot.com/2007/11/electronic-business-registries.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8289978684190011625.post-7484084244908655927Sun, 04 Nov 2007 18:03:00 +00002007-11-04T10:09:19.302-08:00Entrepreneurship was the way to eradicate poverty and hunger from the country, said Shri Pravir Kumar, Joint Secretary of Ministry of MSME. Shri K.R. Arya, Executive Director of National Institute for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development stated that the scheme of entrepreneurship development centre is aimed at promotion of entrepreneurship and skill development through establishment ofhttp://vendevnews.blogspot.com/2007/11/entrepreneurship-development-centre.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)0