15+ years of rabbit holes.

• What's In It For Me: Lessons on Tech Hub Utility
• Decoding #hubsustainability
• All Hands on Deck: Why Hub Sustainability is a Complex Challenge that Requires a Systemic Solution
• Engaging African Tech Hubs in the Search for Digital Jobs

• Introduction to Shared Ownership (Full Report, English)
• Introduction to Shared Ownership (Full Report, French)
• Introduction to Shared Ownership — Executive Summary (English)
• Introduction to Shared Ownership — Executive Summary (French)
• The State of Shared Ownership in Africa

Blogging for NextBillion.net

2009

• BoP Business Development and the Extractives Industry
• Can Members of the Diaspora Work Effectively at the Base of the Pyramid?
• Business Action for Africa
• Microfinance: An Open-Book Blog
• Inside the Entrepreneur's Studio: A Conversation with Mo Ibrahim
• Cornell Global Forum: What Gets Measured Gets Done
• Creative Design for Affordability at Cornell
• How Can We Harness the Talent and Energy Available in this Space?

2008

• Keeping the Magic Alive at Lapdesk: An Interview with Greg Durst, MD of Endeavor South Africa
• Lapdesk, Part II: An Interview with Shane Immelman
• The Truth about Lapdesk, A South African FOPSE: An Interview with Dan Isenberg, HBS Professor
• Event: Africa Entrepreneurship Platform
• Innovate or Die

2007

• Tayo Akinyemi's BOP 20 Questions
• New Blogger Joins NextBillion.net Team: Tayo Akinyemi
• Shea Yeleen: Promoting Market Access for African Shea Producers
• Ayllu: Scaling Social Enterprise through Microfranchise
• Bridging the Communication Gap in Uganda: Appfrica Labs
• Reflections on 'Go': Big Red MicroCapital
• What's GOOD: Incubating, Disseminating and Commercializing Appropriate Technology at the BoP
• Colorado State's Global Social and Sustainable Enterprise Program
• BoP, Geopolitics, and Giving the People What They Need
• Two New African Venture Funds
• Upending the Pyramid: Measuring Success at the BoP
• Entrepreneurialization of Government
• The Delight of d.light Design
• Domestic BoP: Models for Addressing Underserved Markets
• How Can Development Agencies Support Economic Development at the BoP?
• Mobile4Good
• Critical Skills at the BoP Reloaded
• Conference Report: Financial Inclusion, Innovation, and Investment
• Hard vs. Soft: Defining Critical Skills at the BoP
• Women at the BOP

From my old blog In Search of the BluePrint

2012

• Musings on the Link Between the Financial Crisis and Sustainability
• Bridging the Capital Gap in Impact Investing
• Success, Failure and the Lean Startup as a Metaphor for Life
• What Works When You're Measuring What Works
• The Danger of "One and Done" When Investing for Impact
• Chia Seeds for Fair Trade?

2011

• What Disruptive Startups Can Learn from Social Enterprises and Nonprofits (Maybe)
• If I Were A… How Shallow Hypothesizing Hurts Development Problem-Solving
• Perhaps I'll Have Coffee?: A Footnote on Storytelling and Three Cups of Tea
• Storytelling and the Link to Personal Impact
• Atonement: The Social Responsibility Assumed by MNCs and SMEs
• Is There Anything Really New about Collective Impact?
• Ask the Right Question, Get the Right Answer: Esther Duflo @ The Center for Global Development

2010

• Transparency International Weighs in on Bruckner Debate
• Social Edge on the "Fetishization of Metrics": It's All About the Comments
• The Social Innovation Fund Controversy: Reflections on Accountability
• Stanford Social Innovation Review on Measuring Social Value
• The Multidimensional Poverty Assessment Tool: Not-So-Distant Cousin of the MPI?
• To Aggregate or Not To Aggregate: The MPI Revisited
• HBR on Integrated Reporting of Financial and Sustainability Performance
• Metrics for Sustainable Development
• Measuring the Impact of Microfinance
• The Futility of Impact Measurement
• UNDP and Oxford Launch Multidimensional Poverty Index
• A New Era of Sustainability
• Who Needs a Social Competitiveness Index?
• SSE's Perspective on Measurement
• Microfranchising eBook (Scribd)
• Business Fights Poverty in London
• Reflections on the ANDE/GBF Conference
• Happy World Metrics Day!
• Welcome to Lagos!
• Access to Finance as a Public Good
• Muhammad Yunus in Chicago!
• Chicago for Acumen: If You Build It….
• The Utility of Good Organizations: The Hidden Factors Affecting What Works