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Preserving the Gift of Giving Pierre and Pam Omidyar "People everywhere are inherrently capable, but what they lack is equal opportunity," says eBay's founder, Pierre, 43, who joined the Giving Pledge with his wife, the chair of HopeLab. |
BusinessWeek
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Taking Tiny Loans To The Next Level An idea, not a person, was the most powerful force in philanthropy in 2006. |
BusinessWeek
December 6, 2004
Robert D. Hof |
Pierre M. Omidyar: The Web For The People Today, eBay Inc., as it's now known, has catapulted from its early days as the place to trade Beanie Babies to become the Web's most powerful corporate enterprise in its own right, worth more than $70 billion. |
Fast Company
March 1, 2007
Bill Breen |
Q&A: Pierre Omidyar - Empower Seller Pierre Omidyar's network funds both nonprofits and for-profits. No matter, as long as they do good. |
BusinessWeek
November 29, 2004 |
The Greatest Gifts Of All The Top 50 donors in BusinessWeek's annual ranking of America's leading philanthropists have already given an enormous amount of their money to charity over the course of their lifetimes. This year many supersized their donations. |
The Motley Fool
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Alyce Lomax |
eBay, Meetup Meet Up There's a lot of talk about community-based content and services on the Internet these days, with collective intelligence powering the engines. An investment in Meetup shows eBay's still all about "the power of all of us." |
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Screw Business As Usual In his book, Screw Business As Usual, Richard Branson says business as usual isn't working. There are names for this new approach to business -- from Capitalism 2.0 to philanthrocapitalism. |
BusinessWeek
May 9, 2005
Eric Uhlfelder |
Micro Loans, Solid Returns Microfinance funds lend small amounts to the poor in developing nations to help them launch small enterprises. Investors benefit from these funds. |
BusinessWeek
July 9, 2007
Keith Epstein |
Microfinance Draws Mega Players Hedge funds, VCs, and other big investors are seeing the huge profit potential in tiny loans. |
InternetNews
September 16, 2005
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Jim 'Griff' Griffith, Dean, eBay Education The eBay guru talks about what makes eBay tick. He also discusses areas for possible growth. |
The Motley Fool
February 24, 2006
Tim Beyers |
Baby Breaker Birth Announcements We track the week in private equity in search of investments of the future: Prosper Marketplace... Cadence Pharmaceuticals... |
The Motley Fool
May 2, 2005
Alyce Lomax |
Is eBay a Rule Breaker? Is the online auctioneer a rebel of tomorrow... or yesterday for investors? |
Fast Company
May 2001
Charles Fishman |
Face Time With Meg Whitman The CEO of eBay runs one of the few dotcoms that's still left standing. What will be the opening bid for her words of wisdom? |
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Let the Bidding Begin An eBay business could be your entry to the online marketplace. Find out how to get started today. |
U.S. Banker
February 2009
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Microfinance: Ready For Its Big Leap? Janie Barrera's nonprofit microfinance institution seeks out borrowers on the fringe of society, offering them not only small-business loans but also credit and business-development counseling. |
BusinessWeek
June 17, 2010
Ruth David |
Worrying Signs in India's Microfinance Boom As IPOs of some of India's microfinance companies near, there are fears of rising defaults among poor borrowers. |
