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Time to Sell Your Business? An ESOP May Be the Answer

Strategy Driven

These companies are often founded to capitalize on a perceived market opportunity and grow over time until eventually the owner has a healthy, and profitable company. However, owners often assume that an exit will be as simple as selling the company. Because large exit sales are often in the news.

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Why Tech Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries Struggle to Raise Funds

Harvard Business Review

As a college student in Nigeria, I had wanted to master developing microcontroller-based systems, but had never had the opportunity in practice, because no company there offered it. So, at the end of the academic session, I developed a business plan and sent copies to potential investors in the U.S. As the first year of my Ph.D.

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A simple cure for the Buzzword Bingo | Rajesh Setty

Rajesh Setty

We had offshored our development team but when we did a rightshoring exercise, we found that a dual-shore approach works better. 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.

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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. Under the broad umbrella of impact investments lie myriad sectors, asset types, and investment products, most of which still need to be developed and understood. sanitation, housing, mobile banking).