Author Archives: Aden Van Noppen

About Aden Van Noppen

Aden developed her passion for creating market-based solutions to poverty by studying social enterprise and development in the classroom at Brown University and on the ground in Guatamala and India. During her time at Brown, Aden founded emPower, the first clean energy and climate change advocacy group on campus. Prior to joining the Fellowship, Aden was a Portfolio Associate with the Acumen Fund in New York where she worked on the development of their global portfolio strategy and support investment processes. Aden is working with Micro Home Solutions where she is leading strategic efforts to create economically viable housing solutions for under-served populations.

Looking for competition in all the wrong places

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Aden Van Noppen

“What’s the competition?” This is always one of the first questions a start-up enterprise asks itself. To answer it, we tend to search for those who are similar to us. We ask, “Who are the existing players?” The formal players … Continue reading →

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Questioning Assumptions with the Delhi Metro

Posted on March 27, 2011 by Aden Van Noppen

In this train system, impeccably clean trains pull into the station every 2.5 minutes. They carry 1.5 million daily commuters over 100 miles of track to 132 stations around the city. No trash lies on the ground of the station, … Continue reading →

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