Kiva (A, B and C) - Teaching Note
Kiva is a 501(3) nonprofit organization founded in the late 2004 by two Stanford graduate, Matt Flannery and his wife Jessica Jackley. Inspired by a lecture of the Nobel prize Muhammad Yunus, Matt and Jessica decided to use their spare time to create a micro-lending organization capable to leverage the potential of internet-based technologies. The original idea associated with KIVA business model is pretty simple: small entrepreneurs located in emerging countries find very difficult to get the micro-loans necessary to support their entrepreneurial initiatives. Most of them fail just for the impossibility to get financial support. On the other hand, internet technologies can easily, quickly and efficiently create a link at virtually zero cost between these entrepreneurs and small lenders located in richer countries.
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