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How to Raise Money as a Business

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2023

You should also prepare some insights about your market and competition. Try to build an understanding of the potential risks and challenges your business may face, as well as how you plan to tackle them. How can I make my business more attractive to potential investors?

Venture Capitalist

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Guest Post: An Entrepreneur's Thoughts on Market Incentives & Foreign Aid

Mills Scofield

AUGUST 27, 2012

Thoughts on Charity, Foreign Aid and Market Incentives - Tanzania. It’s funny that at different points of our dinner, we were all drawn to think about how to make nonprofits more financially sustainable, the one that Jayson and I run included. He worked in a firm that supported fixed income investments in emerging markets.

Incentives

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How Can I Start My Own Business?

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

If you’re wondering how to go about making your own entrepreneurial dreams a reality, consider the steps below on how you can start your own business even during these uncertain times. What is the population size of the consumers you plan to market to? Have a Concrete Idea. Conduct the Proper Research.

Microfinance

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Innovating The Brick-and-Mortar Injustice Infrastructure

Mills Scofield

JUNE 16, 2013

This week''s post is by Andy Posner , Co-Founder & Executive Director of Capital Good Fund ( CGF ), a non-profit microfinance organization targeting the root causes of poverty through innovative micro-loans and personal financial coaching. It’s time for us to finally put poverty out of business for good. [1]

Innovation

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The Microfinance Contagion Scenario

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

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Making Microfinance More Effective

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2016

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. Traditional microcredit hasn’t lived up to expectations, but we are learning how to improve it.

Microfinance

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Servant Leadership Observer ? November 2010

Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

How to Handle a Seagull Manager. Why Meetings Suck (Costs) & How to Reveal It. Book Says Servant Leadership Critical for Marketing Leaders. Peer-to-Peer Microfinance: A Sustainable Solution to Poverty. Why Technology Managers Make Great Leaders. Will You Like the View from Your Deathbed? Careers for Servant Leaders.

Servant Leader

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

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

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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How Large NGOs Are Using Data to Transform Themselves

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

In 2013, Habitat used its frontline calculations to create a new strategic plan aimed at materially affecting the housing deficit through a combination of advocacy and market development. A critical part was adapting a proven model in a related field: microfinance. Habitat has thereby transformed the nature and scale of its impact.

Microfinance

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Funders Can Give More than Money

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

With the country still dangling from the fiscal cliff, charitable organizations like ours are finding that the individuals and foundations we depend on are more discerning than ever in their choices of how to spend their philanthropic capital. We know that microfinance alone will not break the poverty cycle.

Microfinance

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An Approach to Ending Poverty That Works

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

” Microfinance and other market-based interventions don’t generally reach them. Is it better to attach conditions, or do the poor know best how to spend their money? At BRAC , where I work, we call this subset the “ultra-poor.” If we’re to end poverty, we can’t ignore them.

Microfinance

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How Social Entrepreneurs Can Have the Most Impact

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

You can find the answer to the timing question nestled among the facts that David Bornstein lays out in the preface to his book, How to Change the World. And is this kind of rapid growth good news? That year, two global headlines raised the profile of social enterprise: Mohammed Yunus and the Grameen Bank won the Nobel Peace prize.

Entrepreneur

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Facebook Presence Is an Important Clue to a Social Venture's Future

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2013

It seems to signal that an enterprise's theory of how to effect change resonates with a lot of people and that the organization is developing a "voice" for effectively communicating its ideas to customers — a crucial success factor. A larger Facebook network suggests that a social-venture idea has legs.

Entrepreneur

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It's Not All About Growth for Social Enterprises

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

But a real answer requires shifting the conversation from how to grow the organization to how best to increase its impact. Many in the nonprofit world call this technical assistance or training, while for-profit entrepreneurs might see it as business development, partnerships or even affiliate marketing.

Venture Capitalist

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Using Games to Get a Handle on Bank Risk

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Bank marketing materials focus on the dreams, anxieties and goals of consumers. We've all been given generic guidelines on appropriate levels of savings and how to evaluate new purchases. Risk management processes don't — but they should. Risk education: Gaming enables risk education for both banks and users.

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President Obama Can Make Start-Up America Succeed

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Opportunities and markets are global. Entrepreneurs don't need to help America beat China or Brazil in addressing the needs of customers and markets. They need to learn how to partner with Chinese and Brazilian and Israeli and Egyptian entrepreneurs, and sell to customers everywhere. This is not a contradiction.

Venture Capitalist

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Entrepreneurs: You're More Important Than Your Business Plan

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

And we are often happy to review these start-up plans — which include the typical elements such as a product description, competitive analysis, estimate of market size, and projected financials. The kids develop discipline and focus, but also practical, marketable skills. How to Woo Talent From the For-Profit World.

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