The benefits of microfinance have been debated since the ’70s when the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh began making tiny loans to impoverished small business owners. MORE
For our students, that can mean anyone from a Syrian refugee trying to make contact with his family back home, to a supply chain manager for a major apparel brand who wants to make sure his contract factory in Bangladesh doesn’t use forced labor. MORE
million customers in Bangladesh and 12,000 in New York City To end world hunger, don''t give away money. Just start a business, says Muhammad Yunus. There''s an old adage that goes, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." MORE
When I was at my nonprofit, VisionSpring, I would be in a village in rural Bangladesh, with a community of weavers. Neil Blumenthal, co-founder of Warby Parker, says it''s important to teach your staff to be aware of others. Here''s why. "I MORE
Members are based in many developing countries, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. MORE
Fully burdened with insurance, taxes, and benefits, our factory labor rate is $20 an hour--20 times the current labor rate in China and 100 times that in Bangladesh. This entrepreneur says now is a great time to be a manufacturer. The secret: Think show business. MORE
If you add 210 million Muslims from Indonesia and 134 million from Bangladesh — it turns out that 700 million people from South and East Asia have the four largest Muslim populations in the word. MORE
Yunus, who found Grameen Bank to provide microcredit loans to the poor in Bangladesh, created the idea of microlending, and has helped 100 million people raise themselves out of poverty. David Gorodyansky, whose company AnchorFree developed an app that has helped revolutionaries in several countries evade government censorship, talks about the people who inspired him. MORE
Faced with the rising costs of labour, materials and land in Chinese cities, companies are increasingly sourcing from other Asian countries like Vietnam, Indonesia, Pakistan and Bangladesh. MORE
It seems to take a total catastrophe like the factory collapse that left 1,132 dead in Bangladesh this April to get people''s attention. This May, the start-up announced its first corporate partnership: a $600,000 deal to work with Walmart on cleaning up 279 of its factories in Bangladesh. MORE
Every country has its own place-specific challenges, as last week''s tragedy at a Bangladesh factory showed. Last week’s factory collapse in Bangladesh was a terrible reminder of what can go wrong in life and in business. MORE
Nothing keeps a person accountable like a signature. That John Hancock still carries the same weight it did back in 1776. MORE
A well-known one is microfinance, which originated in Bangladesh in 1983. An earlier example also started in Bangladesh, where Western doctors had gone to treat a cholera epidemic. Innovation isn't the trickle-down process we often imagine it to be. MORE
Next on the list will be portals in Bangladesh and Vietnam, and Adil felt confident that a lot more growth was available to be tapped in the coming years as more markets developed and matured. Editor''s Note: This is a sponsored post on behalf of Elance. MORE
You don’t get to call for a religious test to enter our country, potentially denying access to more than 1 billion Muslim people in the world including very large populations in Indonesia, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. MORE
Image via Warby Parker, of a child who received donated glasses. As we begin the year, it’s always helpful to look back and reflect on the things that went particularly well. While it’s easy to learn from others’ mistakes, there’s a lot to be said for emulating ideas that work. MORE
Another related trend that I am seeing in the apparel industry is where they are taking the Apple approach and marketing their products as Designed in USA although they may be made somewhere else, say India or Bangladesh or China. Share Communities are everywhere. MORE
Liberia, Argentina, Bangladesh, Lithuania, Trinidad, Brazil, Kosovo, Slovenia, Denmark, Jamaica, South Korea, Norway, Poland & Croatia. It’s hard to feel any positives these days: We’re in the eye of the storm. We’re at peak anxiety. Maximum rancor. MORE
We’re in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Ghana, and some extent Pakistan even though it''s not a focus market. The beautiful thing about Gothenburg-based Saltside Technologies is that they throw away the assumption that if you want to grow into a valuable company, you need to be targeting the U.S., MORE
It means positioning a brand in ways that local people, say in Bangladesh, can relate to, or at the very least, not be offended by. MORE
CHAPEL HILL — UNC-Chapel Hill has long been a leader in the anti-sweatshop movement, but that reputation is on the line amid a debate about protecting garment workers’ safety in Bangladesh MORE
For example: what are the implications of Russia having a life expectancy of 59 versus 61 for Bangladesh? by Professor Dominique V. Turpin, president of IMD. The future is hard to predict and a lot of “experts” regularly get it wrong. MORE
9 libraries established in India, Nepal, Cambodia, and Bangladesh. 10 Literacy Instruction programmes implemented in South Africa, Nepal, Cambodia, and Bangladesh. MORE
Two were from China, and the others came from Canada, Nigeria, Bangladesh, and Norway. "We Recently renewed by President Obama, the EB-5 Visa program links entrepreneurs to foreign investors. MORE
“You don’t get to call for a religious test to enter our country, potentially denying access to more than 1 billion Muslim people in the world including very large populations in Indonesia, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh.” Please vote. Just so you know my bias before reading further, I’m voting for Hillary Clinton. This post is not aimed at you if you have already decided to vote for Clinton or for Trump. MORE
We’re now over 500 strong, and have raised over $500,000 which were used to build 6 schools, 14 libraries and 300 scholarships for girls in Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Vietnam and Tanzania. “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. MORE
Yet in the aftermath of last year''s Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh, which claimed more than 1,100 lives, the business of clothing manufacturing looks an awful lot like it did before. Consumers "look at the label and it says ''Made in China'' or it says ''Made in Bangladesh.'' MORE
France & Bangladesh). Don’t miss your chance to see these amazing global entrepreneurs along with the rest of a jam packed conference! April 9-10, tickets here: ow.ly/LcTT8 LcTT8 . CattleMettle is a social venture with a bold mission to mitigate the effect of adverse climatic conditions on feed availability for cattle in arid regions. India). MORE
He found inspiration in the success of a mobile-phone business run by the Grameen Bank in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Crisitina Jimenez has an interesting piece on ‘open innovation’ – where problems are shared publicly and rewards offered for suitable solutions. Jimenez’s piece highlights how students and faculty are using ‘open innovation’ challenges to find funding, work on interesting problems, and make meaning. MORE
The Grameen Bank (Bangladesh) revolutionized banking services using a business model driven by People considerations: how to extend banking to, and create employment opportunities for, poor men and women. I have known Dr. William Miller (co-founder of Value Centered Innovation ) for a number of years and every conversation with him on business model innovation and beyond has been delightful and insightful. Hers is a quick interview with him on the topic. MORE
Whole countries such as Bangladesh will be flooded, should we see such a dramatic rise of our oceans. by Pascal Finette from Singularity University. May you live in interesting times.” ~ Chinese Proverb. MORE
Lending: In 1983, Muhammed Yunus founded Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, based on the notion that the poor were credit-worthy and that a model of positive “peer pressure” would lead to repayment of loans. MORE
When he left for Dacca (Dhaka – now in Bangladesh), he also left the field of Raman scattering. MORE
What''s more, so-called frontier markets- -considered "pre-emerging"-- such as Bangladesh and Kuwait don''t seem to have been as affected by the global downturn. MORE
The concept and first implementation of modern microfinancing is generally credited to Dr. Mohammad Yunus who, back in the 1970s, began lending to impoverished women in Jobra, Bangladesh, while teaching economics at Chittagong University. MORE
Two examples of mass-scale social enterprise are Mexico-based Gente Nueva and Bangladesh-based BRAC. There are two ways to scale your social enterprise: through organizational growth or through other forms of increasing social impact beyond the organizational boundaries. MORE
The first successful stories of microfinance I heard about centered on the work of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. That darn 2.0 label is showing up everywhere (see some earlier postings here and here ). Brad Feld hates the fact that Enterprise 2.0 now has a Wikipedia entry , and of course there are 3.0 mentions springing up as well. Microfinance is the provision of financial services, usually in very small amounts, to poor people. MORE
Lending: In 1983, Muhammed Yunus founded Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, based on the notion that the poor were credit-worthy and that a model of positive “peer pressure” would lead to repayment of loans. MORE
Financial services provider MasterCard has announced the results of its MasterCard Financial Literacy Index, which revealed that progress towards improving basic finance knowledge and skills across Asia Pacific has stalled as 12 of 16 countries record lower scores in financial literacy. MORE
If you don't target a country, then Facebook chooses to display your ads to people in Bangladesh or similarly impoverished countries. Can Facebook's sponsored stories help your marketing efforts? Maybe, but it's complicated. MORE
For our students, that can mean anyone from a Syrian refugee trying to make contact with his family back home, to a supply chain manager for a major apparel brand who wants to make sure his contract factory in Bangladesh doesn’t use forced labor. MORE
We operate similar schemes in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Vietnam which we are also committed to expanding." In a recent interview, Warby Parker''s Lead Council and Head of Social Innovation admitted that scaling the "Buy a pair, Give a pair" program has become a challenge. MORE
After many years of startup involvement and business model scouting in the western hemisphere, he moved to Bangladesh where one of the startups he worked with was running an online food delivery service. What do you do when hiring people to do even the basic stuff becomes really expensive? MORE
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CHAPEL HILL — UNC-Chapel Hill has long been a leader in the anti-sweatshop movement, but that reputation is on the line amid a debate about protecting garment workers’ safety in Bangladesh
ArcticStartup
JUNE 20, 2014
After many years of startup involvement and business model scouting in the western hemisphere, he moved to Bangladesh where one of the startups he worked with was running an online food delivery service. What do you do when hiring people to do even the basic stuff becomes really expensive?
Inc Startups
APRIL 24, 2014
Yet in the aftermath of last year''s Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh, which claimed more than 1,100 lives, the business of clothing manufacturing looks an awful lot like it did before. Consumers "look at the label and it says ''Made in China'' or it says ''Made in Bangladesh.''
Feld Thoughts
NOVEMBER 5, 2016
“You don’t get to call for a religious test to enter our country, potentially denying access to more than 1 billion Muslim people in the world including very large populations in Indonesia, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh.” Please vote. Just so you know my bias before reading further, I’m voting for Hillary Clinton. This post is not aimed at you if you have already decided to vote for Clinton or for Trump.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 20, 2018
Whole countries such as Bangladesh will be flooded, should we see such a dramatic rise of our oceans. by Pascal Finette from Singularity University. May you live in interesting times.” ~ Chinese Proverb.
VC Cafe
JUNE 12, 2016
9 libraries established in India, Nepal, Cambodia, and Bangladesh. 10 Literacy Instruction programmes implemented in South Africa, Nepal, Cambodia, and Bangladesh.
Inc Startups
AUGUST 7, 2013
It seems to take a total catastrophe like the factory collapse that left 1,132 dead in Bangladesh this April to get people''s attention. This May, the start-up announced its first corporate partnership: a $600,000 deal to work with Walmart on cleaning up 279 of its factories in Bangladesh.
Inc Startups
MAY 28, 2013
million customers in Bangladesh and 12,000 in New York City To end world hunger, don''t give away money. Just start a business, says Muhammad Yunus. There''s an old adage that goes, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."
VC Cafe
JULY 31, 2017
We’re now over 500 strong, and have raised over $500,000 which were used to build 6 schools, 14 libraries and 300 scholarships for girls in Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Vietnam and Tanzania. “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 6, 2016
Liberia, Argentina, Bangladesh, Lithuania, Trinidad, Brazil, Kosovo, Slovenia, Denmark, Jamaica, South Korea, Norway, Poland & Croatia. It’s hard to feel any positives these days: We’re in the eye of the storm. We’re at peak anxiety. Maximum rancor.
Inc Startups
MAY 29, 2013
When I was at my nonprofit, VisionSpring, I would be in a village in rural Bangladesh, with a community of weavers. Neil Blumenthal, co-founder of Warby Parker, says it''s important to teach your staff to be aware of others. Here''s why. "I
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 17, 2017
If you add 210 million Muslims from Indonesia and 134 million from Bangladesh — it turns out that 700 million people from South and East Asia have the four largest Muslim populations in the word.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 21, 2016
For our students, that can mean anyone from a Syrian refugee trying to make contact with his family back home, to a supply chain manager for a major apparel brand who wants to make sure his contract factory in Bangladesh doesn’t use forced labor.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 21, 2016
For our students, that can mean anyone from a Syrian refugee trying to make contact with his family back home, to a supply chain manager for a major apparel brand who wants to make sure his contract factory in Bangladesh doesn’t use forced labor.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 28, 2015
Financial services provider MasterCard has announced the results of its MasterCard Financial Literacy Index, which revealed that progress towards improving basic finance knowledge and skills across Asia Pacific has stalled as 12 of 16 countries record lower scores in financial literacy.
Inc Startups
MAY 7, 2013
Every country has its own place-specific challenges, as last week''s tragedy at a Bangladesh factory showed. Last week’s factory collapse in Bangladesh was a terrible reminder of what can go wrong in life and in business.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 5, 2015
For example: what are the implications of Russia having a life expectancy of 59 versus 61 for Bangladesh? by Professor Dominique V. Turpin, president of IMD. The future is hard to predict and a lot of “experts” regularly get it wrong.
Up and Running
JANUARY 16, 2015
Image via Warby Parker, of a child who received donated glasses. As we begin the year, it’s always helpful to look back and reflect on the things that went particularly well. While it’s easy to learn from others’ mistakes, there’s a lot to be said for emulating ideas that work.
thebarefootvc
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Lending: In 1983, Muhammed Yunus founded Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, based on the notion that the poor were credit-worthy and that a model of positive “peer pressure” would lead to repayment of loans.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 3, 2012
The benefits of microfinance have been debated since the ’70s when the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh began making tiny loans to impoverished small business owners.
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It means positioning a brand in ways that local people, say in Bangladesh, can relate to, or at the very least, not be offended by.
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JULY 21, 2007
The first successful stories of microfinance I heard about centered on the work of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. That darn 2.0 label is showing up everywhere (see some earlier postings here and here ). Brad Feld hates the fact that Enterprise 2.0 now has a Wikipedia entry , and of course there are 3.0 mentions springing up as well. Microfinance is the provision of financial services, usually in very small amounts, to poor people.
UC Berkeley
APRIL 8, 2015
France & Bangladesh). Don’t miss your chance to see these amazing global entrepreneurs along with the rest of a jam packed conference! April 9-10, tickets here: ow.ly/LcTT8 LcTT8 . CattleMettle is a social venture with a bold mission to mitigate the effect of adverse climatic conditions on feed availability for cattle in arid regions. India).
Inc Startups
FEBRUARY 13, 2014
We operate similar schemes in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Vietnam which we are also committed to expanding." In a recent interview, Warby Parker''s Lead Council and Head of Social Innovation admitted that scaling the "Buy a pair, Give a pair" program has become a challenge.
Inc Startups
JUNE 10, 2013
Nothing keeps a person accountable like a signature. That John Hancock still carries the same weight it did back in 1776.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 4, 2014
Faced with the rising costs of labour, materials and land in Chinese cities, companies are increasingly sourcing from other Asian countries like Vietnam, Indonesia, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 19, 2012
The concept and first implementation of modern microfinancing is generally credited to Dr. Mohammad Yunus who, back in the 1970s, began lending to impoverished women in Jobra, Bangladesh, while teaching economics at Chittagong University.
Inc Startups
MAY 2, 2012
A well-known one is microfinance, which originated in Bangladesh in 1983. An earlier example also started in Bangladesh, where Western doctors had gone to treat a cholera epidemic. Innovation isn't the trickle-down process we often imagine it to be.
Grade A Entrepreneurs
MAY 12, 2012
When he left for Dacca (Dhaka – now in Bangladesh), he also left the field of Raman scattering.
Life Beyond Code
MARCH 19, 2013
The Grameen Bank (Bangladesh) revolutionized banking services using a business model driven by People considerations: how to extend banking to, and create employment opportunities for, poor men and women. I have known Dr. William Miller (co-founder of Value Centered Innovation ) for a number of years and every conversation with him on business model innovation and beyond has been delightful and insightful. Hers is a quick interview with him on the topic.
thebarefootvc
JUNE 15, 2014
Lending: In 1983, Muhammed Yunus founded Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, based on the notion that the poor were credit-worthy and that a model of positive “peer pressure” would lead to repayment of loans.
Inc Startups
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
Members are based in many developing countries, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
ArcticStartup
FEBRUARY 27, 2014
Next on the list will be portals in Bangladesh and Vietnam, and Adil felt confident that a lot more growth was available to be tapped in the coming years as more markets developed and matured. Editor''s Note: This is a sponsored post on behalf of Elance.
ArcticStartup
JANUARY 23, 2015
We’re in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Ghana, and some extent Pakistan even though it''s not a focus market. The beautiful thing about Gothenburg-based Saltside Technologies is that they throw away the assumption that if you want to grow into a valuable company, you need to be targeting the U.S.,
Inc Startups
MAY 29, 2013
Fully burdened with insurance, taxes, and benefits, our factory labor rate is $20 an hour--20 times the current labor rate in China and 100 times that in Bangladesh. This entrepreneur says now is a great time to be a manufacturer. The secret: Think show business.
Inc Startups
MARCH 8, 2013
If you don't target a country, then Facebook chooses to display your ads to people in Bangladesh or similarly impoverished countries. Can Facebook's sponsored stories help your marketing efforts? Maybe, but it's complicated.
Inc Startups
FEBRUARY 9, 2013
Two were from China, and the others came from Canada, Nigeria, Bangladesh, and Norway. "We Recently renewed by President Obama, the EB-5 Visa program links entrepreneurs to foreign investors.
Inc Startups
JANUARY 27, 2014
What''s more, so-called frontier markets- -considered "pre-emerging"-- such as Bangladesh and Kuwait don''t seem to have been as affected by the global downturn.
Campus Entrepreneurship
NOVEMBER 12, 2011
He found inspiration in the success of a mobile-phone business run by the Grameen Bank in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Crisitina Jimenez has an interesting piece on ‘open innovation’ – where problems are shared publicly and rewards offered for suitable solutions. Jimenez’s piece highlights how students and faculty are using ‘open innovation’ challenges to find funding, work on interesting problems, and make meaning.
Inc Startups
MAY 8, 2014
Yunus, who found Grameen Bank to provide microcredit loans to the poor in Bangladesh, created the idea of microlending, and has helped 100 million people raise themselves out of poverty. David Gorodyansky, whose company AnchorFree developed an app that has helped revolutionaries in several countries evade government censorship, talks about the people who inspired him.
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