Profile: Polly McMaster, CEO, The Fold
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Mobile numbers
A happy side effect of the mobile revolution is an array of stunning stats.
Making an impact with mobile technology
Rajesh Chandy and Kamalini Ramdas look to the future role of mobile phones in changing the world and provide a blueprint for what needs to change to make this reality.
Online funding: Google’s venture investments reveal future trends
What do you do if you are an individual, or a small business, that is in need of a loan? Turning to your bank is the common answer. Well, Google’s recent investments suggest a different route; crowd and online funding platforms.
Transform your business model by discovering your Plan B
If the founders of Google, Starbucks, or PayPal had stuck to their original business plans, we’d likely never have heard of them. Instead, they made radical changes to their initial models, became household names, and delivered huge returns for their founders and investors. How did they get from their Plan A to a business model that worked?
Tracking the enemies of agility
The failure of big companies to adapt to their changing circumstances is one of the fundamental puzzles in the world of business. Occasionally, a genuinely “disruptive” technology, such as digital imaging, comes along and wipes out an entire industry. But usually the sources of failure are more prosaic and more avoidable.
M WORLD: Where we are
What is unique about mobile technology is that it has achieved unprecedented penetration. Compare the spread of mobile phones to the dispersion of other technologies and the sheer force of the momentum becomes clear.
M-KOPA: Let there be light
M-KOPA, a small start-up in Kenya, is combining mobile phone know-how with the latest solar technology, providing a beacon of hope for millions of people around the world looking forward to a brighter future.
THE M IN FUTURE
Rajesh Chandy and Kamalini Ramdas look to the future role of mobile phones in changing the world and provide a blueprint for what needs to change to make this reality.
Social Enterprise in Numbers
Could social enterprise reform capitalism and solve some of the world’s biggest problems?
MPOWER
From banking the unbanked to giving access to healthcare, mobile phones are increasingly tools for social change and economic improvement. M.Yasmina McCarty charts the mPowering of economic development.
Twin Peaks
The Dolma Development Fund is changing lives in Nepal. Its founder Tim Gocher explains how.
Social financing
John Walker examines the financing opportunities and challenges facing social ventures.
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