Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Along with longtime partners like Warby Parker, Ella and the VisionSpring team are making it their priority to use their immense resources for this unprecedented fight. VisionSpring’s USP is impact – it is our bang for the buck and the social return investment that our partners get that makes us unique in the social enterprise space.

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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. Low cost medical devices: In 2009 in India, GE partnered with Wipro to launch low cost medical devices including a $500 portable ECG.

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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. He went on to found the aforementioned Grameen Bank (“Grameen” means “village” in Bengali).

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Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Two examples of mass-scale social enterprise are Mexico-based Gente Nueva and Bangladesh-based BRAC. This includes the idea of networked social entrepreneurship, which aims to achieve greater impact by creating a network of collaborators and partners. Watch an interview with Gente Nueva’s social entrepreneur, Jose Hernandez.

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Life Beyond Code

MARCH 19, 2013

Partners: The allied people and organizations who enable the model. 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. People: The relationships with all stakeholders.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

13, 2006: This distinguished Nobel Peace Prize recipient pioneered the use of microcredits through the Grameen Bank, which he established in his native Bangladesh in 1983; many for-profit and nonprofit ventures these days utilize the same concept when investing in underprivileged regions. Sheila Johnson at Prendismo Collection , Dec.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 16, 2015

Bonus points for the fact that they partner with the social enterprise Vision Spring to facilitate training for optometrists and eye glass manufacturers in the same countries that they donate glasses to (India, Guatemala, and Bangladesh to name a few), so the communities also receive opportunities for sustainable income.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 30, 2010

More than two years ago, my business partner and I discussed launching a hosted version of our ASP.NET invoicing software, DotNetInvoice. It's a similar process when finding a designer, developer, or any outsourcing partner. Case Study: How I Launched One Month Earlier Using Outsourcing. Step1: Finding a VA.

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Transformify

APRIL 12, 2020

‘’ABC, a US company, signs an agreement with Mr ‘’X’’, a citizen of Bangladesh. ABC pays Mr ’’X’’ a US median market pay rate which is times above the pay rate in Bangladesh stating that the company wants to support the local community. ’’ Round-tripping.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Almaz Negash, Managing partner of Entwine Global- 57% of 10m women in USA graduated from college, 64% of 862m women global are literate, 70% are women of poorest people, un wants to cut poverty by 50% of worlds poverty by 2015, Cartoonist (steaming from TEDWomen event in D.C.) - women+humor=change, Shaherose Charania, CEO & Co-Founder of WOmen (..)

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

people in India, 700k have cell phones with SMS, not smart phones, 66% of women do the work but receive 10% of income, 1% of property.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

When I went to add partners at Upfront I called an LP of mine and told him I was trying to recruit a new partner named Kara Nortman. And while I didn’t hire her because she’s a woman I also don’t treat her any differently than the male partners as she’ll very clearly tell you if you ask her. He actually said that.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Eric Ries : I appreciate you saying that, and we should certainly reserve a moment to say thank you to all of the spouses and supportive partners that have made possible so much of this relief work that we have been talking about in this series of conversations. And the key ramification is people are going to be scared as hell to go out.

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