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July 30, 2018
Impact Alpha

"More capital than ever is being raised by emerging-market private equity and venture capital funds. But less of it is going to small and growing businesses." Read Dennis Price's assessment of ANDE's most recent State of the Small and Growing Business Sector report.

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May 29, 2018
NextBillion

Do accelerators really help entrepreneurs raise more money for their businesses? The answer so far seems to be yes – both in emerging market country contexts, as well as in high-income countries. But how much and to what extent they are effective varies greatly from program to program.


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March 1, 2018
YourStory

Until recently, we have known little about their effectiveness or how differences across programs and models influence entrepreneur performance. Vallabh Rao writes about the Global Accelerator Learning Initiative's (GALI) recently released report on a sample of incubators and accelerators in India.

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February 26, 2018
Endeavor Insight

Endeavor Insight discusses the latest report from the Global Accelerator Learning Initiative (GALI), which provides a landscape of acceleration and incubation in India.

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February 21, 2018
Pequenas Empresas & Grandes Negocios

At an ANDE member event on seed investing for impact businesses, Rob Parkinson, consultant for ANDE Brazil, spoke about the importance of and market size for impact investing in Brazil.

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December 27, 2017
The Nation

The ANDE West Africa Chapter held a meeting on incubation and acceleration in Lagos, Nigeria in December 2017. This article provides a summary of the insights and happenings at the event.

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November 28, 2017
Impact Alpha

Nathan Lustig, managing partner at Magma Partners, explores how tech entrepreneurs are tackling the challenges of financial inclusion, health care, and agriculture, citing heavily from ANDE's Impact Investing Landscape in Latin America report.

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November 13, 2017
Stanford Social Innovation Review

Mobile technology-driven solutions that aim to create social impact need to invest in customer-centric development and user training.

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October 2, 2017
Harvard Business Review

Mismatched goals between investors and entrepreneurs as well as a potential cultural bias may both prove to limit the positive effect that accelerators have in emerging market contexts. Regardless, accelerators still have an important role to play that can help position entrepreneurs for success. ANDE Executive Director Randall Kempner and Academic Director of Social Enterprise at Goizueta, Peter Roberts, discuss how.

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September 7, 2017
ImpactAlpha

The key to unlocking global prosperity may be right under our noses. Partnering with small and growing businesses can create social wins even for corporations not explicitly focused on social impact. This article explores how with real-world examples.

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