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How Can I Start My Own Business?

Strategy Driven

Does your target audience live in your area or are they elsewhere? If you plan on presenting your finished plan to investors, be sure to keep it concise and to know your audience. Microfinance organizations provide small loans in order to help entrepreneurs get their business off the ground in the beginning.

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Why CEOs have Liberal Arts Degrees

Mills Scofield

Educating myself about the fall of the Roman Empire may not provide direct, transferable skills to the corporate office, the quirky startup, or any particular field of work. She's spending the summer in Dhaka doing microfinance. But I argue it gives me something even better: critical thinking skills.

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Why CEOs have Liberal Arts Degrees

Mills Scofield

Educating myself about the fall of the Roman Empire may not provide direct, transferable skills to the corporate office, the quirky startup, or any particular field of work. She's spending the summer in Dhaka doing microfinance. But I argue it gives me something even better: critical thinking skills.

CEO 70
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How One Startup Developed a Sales Model That Works in Emerging Markets

Harvard Business Review

Chaiwalas already cook over fires to make their tea, so using the HomeStove as an alternative could immediately demonstrate the benefits of our product to a captive audience — a bit of a drink and a show, if you will. Experiment #5: Microfinance Institutions. A chaiwala in Orissa, India, brews tea on a BioLite HomeStove.