<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><h3 class="title">The Pioneer Gap</h3>
One of the most striking findings of our research is that few impact
investors are willing to invest in companies targeting the poor, and
even fewer are willing to invest at the early stages of the creation of
these businesses, a problem that we call the Pioneer Gap. <br><br>http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/closing_the_pioneer_gap<br><br>Jim Wiegel<br>
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"Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it.. You got to change with it." Woody Guthrie<br>
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