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Can Impact Investing Avoid the Failures of Microfinance?

Harvard Business Review

Early adopters of microfinance wanted to prove that it was a commercially viable product, deserving space in an investor’s portfolio alongside real estate and the stock market. By 2010, they had succeeded. By 2010, they had succeeded. First and foremost, we need mechanisms to insure we scale impact alongside financial return.

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Interview with Sramana Mitra on 1M/1M Program

Rajesh Setty

By November 2010, we launched the 1M/1M website, including an early version of the premium program. And today, we have a group of early adopter premium members who are making good use of the program. This, of course, doesn’t mean that we discourage entrepreneurs to seek financing.