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The Ultimate Guide to Starting Your Own Small Business

Strategy Driven

While naming your business and creating a logo is important, ever wondered how determining your business structure or crafting a detailed marketing strategy might affect your business? Rather than guessing where to start, follow our checklist to start your own small business. Determine your target market.

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Why Tech Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries Struggle to Raise Funds

Harvard Business Review

Most investors liked the business model and the fact that I was educated in Nigeria and knew the market. But there was one problem: my business plan had no exit strategy. They all asked exit strategy questions and my answer, naively, was that we would grow revenue and share profits!

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A simple cure for the Buzzword Bingo | Rajesh Setty

Rajesh Setty

Apart from using PPC (pay-per-click) and CPE (cost-per-engagement) based advertisements to jump-start adoption, we have engaged some experts to work on social media marketing. We will pursue a global channel strategy after we complete our I18N project. In the interim we might also look at piloting an Affiliate Marketing Strategy.

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Give Impact Investing Time and Space to Develop

Harvard Business Review

An estimated 250 funds are actively raising capital in a market that the Global Impact Investing Network estimates at $25 billion. Impact investing has captured the world’s imagination. Just six years after the Rockefeller Foundation coined the term, the sector is booming. To make sense of this kaleidoscope, three things need to happen.