David Dichter likes being a matchmaker. And like any self-respecting love broker, he takes pride in arranging happily-ever-after marriages. Dichter's mission is to bring together entrepreneurs in developing countries and help them form profitable alliances. "They need someone to be the proverbial honest broker," he says.
That's the idea behind Dichter's company, Technology for the People, founded in 1977. Based in Geneva, Switzerland, TFTP confronts a common challenge of the developing world: while small and medium-size firms need help from the industrialized world, rich-country production technology is expensive to buy and maintain. Dichter's solution was to notice that many enterprises in...
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