You Can Hear Me Now

Bangladeshi villagers with cell phones helped build what is now a thriving $1 billion company with annual profits of $200 million. What is the lesson for the rest of the world? Author Nick Sullivan answers this question in this new book through the story of Iqbal Quadir a remarkable new breed of local entrepreneur. In this narrative, Sullivan provides a new approach to building business opportunity in the globalizing world through a compelling and engaging account of what he calls the “external combustion engine” - a combination of market elements and forces that is already lifting people out of poverty in the Third World.

Table of contents :
Preface
The Author
Introduction: The Three Forces of External Combustion
Part I: The GrameenPhone Story
· Connectivity is Productivity
· Dish-Wallahs of Delhi (and Other Early Models)
· Cell Phone as Cow: A New Paradigm in Search of Investors
· On the Money Trail in Scandinavia
· Building a Company
· Building a Network
Part II: Transformation through Technology
· Wildfire at the Bottom of the Pyramid
· Cell Phone as Wallet
· Wealth Creation and Rural Income Opportunities
· Beyond Phones: In Search of a New "Cow”
· Eyeing the Dhaka Stock Exchange

Epilogue
Notes
Resources
Index


Market Description :
· General world business/economics readers
· Business strategists looking for new markets
· Entrepreneurs and Investors

About Author :
Nick Sullivan has written and spoken widely about technology, entrepreneurship, and business as editor-in-chief at Inc.com where he chaired the Inc. E-Strategies conference and the Inc. /Cisco Growing with Technology Awards, the US West New Ventures Seed Capital Competition, and made numerous media appearances. For the past four years, Sullivan has been engaged in international development and investment as Executive Director of the Money Matters Institute and currently General Partner/Director of Research for the Global Horizon Fund, a private-equity fund for emerging markets. He compiles the annual Wealth of Nations Index, a ranking of 70 developing countries, and was a UN-accredited Business Interlocutor to the International Financing for Development Conference in 2002. He has written for Forbes and Newsweek and currently serves as publisher for the new journal Innovations: Technology/Governance/Globalization (MIT Press). He holds a Master's Degree in International Relations from Tufts Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy and an A.B. from Harvard.