Kiva Needs Businesses to Fund

This holiday season, if you are looking to make a contribution, find a micro-entrepreneur to fund through Kiva. Kiva brings together microlenders with microentrepreneurs at 0% interest. MFI’s can access this debt capital to finance businesses in their portfolio. Watch this video. Or if you need someone really persuasive explain the concept to you, listen

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Merry Christmas

I don’t know about you, but I am in the holiday mood. Music. Dance. Food. Travel. Shopping. So, let me point you to some of my writings on those subjects, in case you are reading: * In What’s after Starbucks? I fantasized about a day when anywhere you are, you can go to a great

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Bah, Humbug

By Lance Glasser, Guest Author ’Tis the season for holiday cheer, max’d credit cards, and joyful gatherings. And every year around this time we hear at these gatherings of some poor soul who has lost his job in the run up to this merry season. What should we make of the Scrooges that wrote out

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Nokia and the Indian Handset Market: Raincheck

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author As we saw in the prequel to this piece, India is a very attractive market for handset vendors. Nokia, is perhaps the best prepared to address this exploding market. So, what does Nokia have going for it in India?

Buenos Aires Trip: Cafe de Los Angelitos

It’s an old cafe at the corner of Rivadavia and Rincon with high ceilings and every bit of old world charm that you can ask for. I spent an afternoon there, writing. Tango music played in the background. At one point, I knew the music had changed. I looked around to see where it was

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Buenos Aires Trip: Live Music

By far, one of the greatest attractions of Buenos Aires is its vibrant live music scene. It costs literally nothing to access the performances of great, great musicians at various venues. On this trip, I listened to saxophonist Miguel de Caro. For the uninitiated, the saxophone is not a traditional Argentine Tango instrument. It is

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Buenos Aires Trip: Malbec

Of course, we buy Malbec from time to time from the local K&L store on El Camino. But it is an entirely different experience to walk into the small Grand Cru wine store on Avenida Alvear in Recoleta, and be guided through a host of wines from boutique wineries.

Buenos Aires Trip: Cupolas on Avenida de Mayo

Avenida de Mayo is one of the most beautiful streets in Buenos Aires, and one that has a large concentration of buildings with facades and Cupolas that are really beautiful. Some of these, today, house offices, and some apartments. I have the memory of a beautiful evening in one of these cupola apartments in 1999,

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