Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2023

This plan needs to clearly outline your company’s goals, operations, and financial projections. You should also prepare some insights about your market and competition. Corporate partnerships and sponsorships that provide funding in exchange for marketing or other benefits What are some ways to raise money as a business?

Venture Capitalist 110

Venture Capitalist Finance Microfinance How To 110

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

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.

Microfinance 12

Microfinance Debt to Equity Ratio MFI Crisis 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2011

Microfinance has come under fire in the past 18 months, triggered in part by SKS Microfinance's IPO. Critics complain that the institutions supporting microfinance have become too greedy, and many are using this as an argument to deeply regulate or, even more, cut support to microfinance operations. I hope not.

Microfinance 12

Microfinance IPO Bottom-up Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

cents for a sachet that could purify 10 liters, Pur achieved penetration rates of 5% to 10% in its test markets — strong by almost any yardstick — but in 2005 the company gave up on Pur as a business, because the numbers simply hadn't worked. The microfinance industry is a rare D and E success story.

Microfinance 13

Microfinance Prahalad Bottom-up Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2014

An estimated 250 funds are actively raising capital in a market that the Global Impact Investing Network estimates at $25 billion. sanitation, housing, mobile banking). We allowed microfinance and the venture capital industry the time and space to develop over a few decades. Impact investing has captured the world’s imagination.

Development 8

Development Microfinance Biotechnology Exit Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2012

However, as I discussed in my last post , the model has a fatal flaw: It inevitably requires an impractical penetration rate of the target market — often 30% or more of all consumers in an area. Any business that starts off needing a 30% or higher penetration rate is built on a shaky foundation. Offer an enabling service.

Bottom-up 10

Bottom-up Microfinance Price Banking 10