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How to Raise Money as a Business

Strategy Driven

How can I manage my business’s funding effectively once I have raised it? They must be informed of your progress and any challenges you may be facing. Demonstrate consistent revenue and profit growth, as well as collecting evidence of a loyal customer base and strong partnerships with other businesses or organisations.

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How Can I Start My Own Business?

Strategy Driven

For more information on market research and competitive analysis, utilize this guide from the SBA. A simple Google search on how to write a business plan should suffice for the information you’ll need to get things started. For more information on microfinancing, consider this article on: what is microfinance ?

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The Microfinance Contagion Scenario

Harvard Business Review

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.

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Making Microfinance More Effective

Harvard Business Review

The Grameen model of microfinance gained a great deal of attention in the international development field after early data showed that it was associated with high repayment and low default. Our findings are captured in a working paper which we summarize below. This model makes small loans, usually to women, without requiring collateral.

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Why CEOs have Liberal Arts Degrees

Mills Scofield

Through my classes, I’ve been forced to question the intentions of authors of primary sources, understand biases present within my readings and even my professor, observe the tone of speakers in context to their audience, and seek out further information to support the claims I make when I write my history papers.

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Servant Leadership Observer ? November 2010

Modern Servant Leader

Or, you can try finding it with the information below. Why Technology Managers Make Great Leaders. How to Handle a Seagull Manager. Do You Have a “Seagull Manager”? Peer-to-Peer Microfinance: A Sustainable Solution to Poverty. Task Prioritization and Time Management – John Maxwell Style.

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Can Technology End Poverty?

Harvard Business Review

Berkeley researcher Kentaro Toyama has a blog dedicated to calling out naïve or inappropriate uses of information and communication technologies (ICT). Calling himself the ICT4D jester (using the development jargon for "information and communication technologies for development"), he has no shortage of material.