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How to Raise Money as a Business

Strategy Driven

This plan needs to clearly outline your company’s goals, operations, and financial projections. They must be informed of your progress and any challenges you may be facing. What are some tips for preparing to raise money? To prepare for raising money, it is essential to be clear on your business plan.

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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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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.

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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.

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

Harvard Business Review

With valuable learnings from the solar salesmen, we began the search to build our own dedicated team of salespeople to help us “open up shop” across each region of operation. Experiment #5: Microfinance Institutions. Customers show up regularly to take out loans, arrange payments, and track their finances.

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It's Not All About Growth for Social Enterprises

Harvard Business Review

One way to tell the story of mothers2mothers' growth is as follows: since 2001, the organization has expanded its operations to nine countries with an approximately $20 million operating budget. Successful examples of this approach are still rare; most people point to microfinance. Have you seen "cultivating the ecosystem" work?