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2008 The Macropocalypse & Edge Competencies
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Friday, October 14, 2005
 


Next Big Things

Forget about Ning, the future is Kiva: coordination economies, microchunking into new domains (in this case, capital formation), and disrupting markets and regulatory structures in the process. Seriously, unspeakably, awesome.

-- umair // 6:38 AM // 4 comments


Comments:

This is pretty cool. It'd be interesting to see if this idea can be extended to countries in the Indian SubC.
# // Blogger Mahashunyam // 5:21 PM
 

Interesting to compare with Unitus (http://www.unitus.com/)
# // Blogger phil jones // 5:43 PM
 

not very interesting at first glance. the idea is good and wholesome, but the flavor isn't tasty. I imagine it could be made more appealing and fun, but I don't have any concrete ideas. More transparency to the loan recipient experience subsequent to loan might make it more rewarding.
# // Anonymous tonyz // 7:09 PM
 

Actually Unitus CEO, Geoff Davis, was one th first members on Kiva's Board of Directors.

Since Kiva looks to the Field Partners (MFIs) to ensure culturally relevant impact for micro-entrepreneurs, the Kiva model is applicable anywhere in the world MFIs can exist.
# // Anonymous AUmadison // 3:21 AM
 
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