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How Can I Start My Own Business?

Strategy Driven

Conducting market research along with taking the time to do a full competitive analysis as it pertains to your business is vital to the success of your company. What is the population size of the consumers you plan to market to? For more information on market research and competitive analysis, utilize this guide from the SBA.

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How to Raise Money as a Business

Strategy Driven

You should also prepare some insights about your market and competition. They must be informed of your progress and any challenges you may be facing. Corporate partnerships and sponsorships that provide funding in exchange for marketing or other benefits How can I make my business more attractive to potential investors?

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Making Microfinance More Effective

Harvard Business Review

While meeting this challenge is a clear priority for policy makers and donors, it is also a major profit opportunity for commercial players who can solve market failures and create real value. Micro-insurance is not at scale anywhere except when heavily subsidized by government, a market we hope technology may change in the future.

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The Microfinance Contagion Scenario

Harvard Business Review

So far, the Andhra Pradesh (AP) microfinance crisis has largely been viewed as a local issue, with relatively little impact beyond AP or India's borders. Other microfinance crises, in Bolivia, Nicaragua, Nigeria, and Bosnia, have not spread beyond the borders of a particular country. That could likely have consequences.

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Servant Leadership Observer ? November 2010

Modern Servant Leader

Or, you can try finding it with the information below. Book Says Servant Leadership Critical for Marketing Leaders. Peer-to-Peer Microfinance: A Sustainable Solution to Poverty. The page you are looking for no longer exists. Perhaps you can return back to the sites homepage and see if you can find what you are looking for.

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How One Startup Developed a Sales Model That Works in Emerging Markets

Harvard Business Review

We serve two markets that are very different but united by the common need for reliable, safe access to energy: outdoor recreationalists and low-income households in emerging markets. We found an ideal storefront near a busy market in central Bhubaneswar. Experiment #5: Microfinance Institutions.

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Global Entrepreneurs Need New Funding Models

Harvard Business Review

The White House has called this gap between the demand and supply of finance for small and medium enterprises a "market failure.[and] Some microfinance organizations are also moving out of the purely micro and toward larger lending. and] a serious constraint on efforts to promote strong and sustainable global recovery.".