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2. Enough with the pressure: Reframing the message of lean in
  
  Explore VentureBeat May 15 2013 Marketing , Venture Capital , Entrepreneur
  
  ... maximizes luck. Let’s look at Sandberg. She had the confidence to jump between jobs with the government, the World Bank, and tech companies, following a varied and non-linear path. Mayer grabbed the CEO opportunity at Y...
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3. Alleviating Poverty: Mobile Communications, Microfinance and Small Business ... - Brookings Institution
  
  Explore Brookings May 1 2013 Venture Capital , Mobile , Technology
  
  ...or millions. Poverty is one of the most pressing problems around the world. According to statistics from the World Bank, nearly one-quarter of the global population lives at or below the poverty line of $1.25 per day.[i...
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4. Drones that Do Good
  
  Explore inc.com Apr 18 2013 Personnel & HR , Technology , Entrepreneur
  
  ...y) off the grid. There are one billion people in the world without access to reliable roads, according to the World Bank. Of course, living without roads means living without a lot of other things, too, like access to me...
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5. Canada: The Next Start-up Frontier?
  
  Explore inc.com Apr 3 2013 Marketing , Finance , Venture Capital , Technology , Entrepreneur , Small Business Ownership
  
  ... 15 percent last year (it's 35 percent in the U.S.). Since 2010, Canada has risen from No. 28 to No. 8 in the World Bank’s list of easiest places to pay taxes, both in terms of the price you pay and the red tape involved...
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6. Business, Entrepreneurship, And A Vatican Think Tank
  
  Explore Forbes.com Apr 3 2013 Entrepreneur
  
  ...e Costs of Tariffs, Monopolies, and Theft” and later, in 1974, Anne Krueger—the former chief economist of the World Bank—coined the word “rent-seeking.” As “rents” can be legitimate, I prefer to use “privilege seeking.” ...
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7. Anshu Gupta brings 'clothing for dignity' to India
  
  Explore The Christian Science Monitor Feb 22 2013 Entrepreneur
  
  ...n award from NASA and the US State Department. He has also been chosen for the CNN-IBN Real Heroes award, the World Bank's Development Marketplace award, the Global Development Network award for most innovative developme...
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  Mentions: India USA New Delhi
8. As FCC Chief’s Term Nears End, Speculation Grows Over Possible Successor
  
  Explore TIME Business Feb 21 2013 Venture Capital
  
  ...me liberal groups for his views on globalization and Wal-Mart’s labor policies. Furman has also worked at the World Bank, the Brookings Institution, and served as Director of Economic Policy for John Kerry’s 2004 preside...
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9. Unlocking the global trillion-dollar crowdfunding market
  
  Explore VentureBeat Dec 24 2012 Marketing , Crowdfunding , Finance , Venture Capital , Technology , Entrepreneur , Small Business Ownership
  
  ...h upcoming visits to Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Sydney. They’ve also secured a relationship with the World Bank to study crowdfunding as a way to unlock innovation in developing countries. Think about the implic...
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10. Why I'm Looking for a New Bank
  
  Explore NYTimes - Small Business Blog Dec 18 2012 Entrepreneur
  
  ...was looking for a bread-and-butter, $100,000 credit line as a backstop while we completed a large job for the World Bank. I won’t go into the details, but in the end the bank made it clear that it didn’t much care whethe...
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11. Africa's Entrepreneurial Challenge: If I Can't Fire You, I Can't Hire You
  
  Explore Forbes.com Dec 14 2012 Venture Capital , Personnel & HR , Technology , Entrepreneur , Small Business Ownership
  
  ... of our young people will no longer need to take the chance of crossing the ocean in their fishing boats. The World Bank ranks nations on the “Ease of Doing Business” annually. Senegal is ranked 166th out of 185 countri...
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  Mentions: Mfonobong Nsehe Africa Spain
12. Startup Spotlight: Oroeco tackles climate change, one purchase at a time
  
  Explore VentureBeat Dec 9 2012 Marketing , Venture Capital , Technology
  
  ... worked on sustainability related projects around the world for corporations like Walmart, Nike, UPS, and the World Bank. In an email to VentureBeat, he said that small decisions have a large impact and that most social ...
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13. Aspen Institute's Mission to Spark a Job Revolution
  
  Explore Forbes.com Nov 26 2012 Venture Capital , Entrepreneur , Small Business Ownership
  
  ... 6.7 million children. I am a founding member of the global Sanitation Hackathon, an Eirene alliance with the World Bank in partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. I have built wellness ventures in Europe...
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14. In Turkey, entrepreneurs and VCs are still waiting for their big payday
  
  Explore VentureBeat Nov 20 2012 Venture Capital , Entrepreneur , Small Business Ownership
  
  ...l business owners and awarded research and development grants for technology projects with the support of the World Bank. The global financial body helped to establish the independent Turkish Technology Development Found...
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15. The 'White African' and Nairobi's Tech Hub
  
  Explore Entrepreneur Nov 20 2012 Technology , Entrepreneur , Small Business Ownership
  
  ... recognize that we work well, and that people can get funding by modeling themselves after us. So we told the World Bank no, but anybody who wants to build a community can come here and we’ll help them with their plannin...
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16. Romney Is Right on Foreign Aid (Opinion)
  
  Explore Entrepreneur Oct 2 2012
  
  ...nce (1975 to 2007)” by Jean-Pierre Chauffour, the lead economist in the international trade department of the World Bank, shows that economic freedom does more to enhance economic development than the provision of entitl...
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