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The Wall Street Journal
At the Base of the Pyramid
When selling to poor consumers, companies need to begin by doing something basic: They need to create the market.
A great article by, Dr. Erik Simanis of the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise at Cornell University's Johnson School of Management, about the importance of building a market to support new technologies developed for the world's poor.
Friday October 30, 2009
KickStart is featured along with companies like Starbucks, WalMart, and GE, and with our friends from LivingGoods and Acumen Fund.
Monday September 21, 2009
NBC Bay Area: Applied Materials Presents: The Tech Awards
Every year, the Tech Museum of Innovation sponsors the Tech Awards for technology benefiting humanity. KickStart was proud to receive the 2003 Accenture Award for Economic Development. This year the Bay Area NBC affiliate aired a special on the award, featuring KickStart. The show is up on their website in four segments. KickStart is in segment three.Congratulations to all this year’s laureates and winners. A special congratulations to our friend Elizabeth Hausler, Ph.D. and her organization Build Change , winner of this year’s Katherine M. Swanson Equality Award.
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Tuesday December 9, 2008
The Guardian (UK)
It is easy to assume that Africa is a continent of despair, disaster and disarray. But those who live and work there say that there is another story to be told — one of resilience, entrepreneurialism and resourcefulness...
It's an opinion that is echoed in [KickStart Co-Founder Nick] Moon's experiences; "The image presented of Africa often enough is one of poverty, corruption, Aids and disaster," he says. "Those things are there, but dig deeper and you find it's a place of enormous energy, optimism and resilience..."
Read the full article here
Monday November 17, 2008
Business Week
Billionaire Branson Cites KickStart as an Effective Solution to Poverty
Friday July 27, 2007
Wall Street Journal
How Innovative Devices Can Boost the Poorest Farmers, Entrepeneurs
Friday May 18, 2007
Hudson Institute: Center for Global Prosperity
(page 53)
Wednesday April 12, 2006
Forbes.com
Tastemakers: Industrial Design (The BMW 7 Series, The iMac, and the MoneyMaker Pump)
Tuesday December 6, 2005
Other Interesting Articles
Climbing out of the Aid Trap
Columbia Business School
Ideas at Work
November 06, 2009
Glenn Hubbard discusses how an old plan can become a new solution to help the world’s poorest nations lift themselves out of poverty — by putting business first.
"...aid, though well-intentioned, actually hurts the poorest countries because it prevents the growth of local business sectors. History shows that local business development has been the source of prosperity throughout the world...
..billions of dollars of aid began flowing to Africa. But despite 40 years of aid, ...African nations [remain] poor. Clearly the aid system has not been effective."
Full article here
November 9, 2009 3:30 PM
MoneyMaker Pumps In Cambodia
Congratulations to Paula Shirk and everyone at Brooklyn Bridge to Cambodia. Paula saw our MoneyMaker pumps and thought they could be useful to the people in her adopted son's village. The first batch of test pumps proved successful so now BB2C is promoting MoneyMaker pumps as route to self-sufficiency!
October 30, 2009 2:48 PM
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