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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? For some products such as a cash advance loan , this may be available in just a few days or hours, but it often comes with a high interest rate. Before raising the money, try to have a solid plan in place for how you want to spend it.

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How Can I Start My Own Business?

Strategy Driven

As you do your research, use the questions below as your guide: Is there a demand for the product or service your company offers? What do you plan on charging for your product or service? Who else already offers your product/service and what can you do to set yourself apart? Who is your target consumer?

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Innovating The Brick-and-Mortar Injustice Infrastructure

Mills Scofield

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.

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Do Teams Work Best When The Stakes Are High?

The Horizons Tracker

This process, which they refer to as gradualism, is commonly used in team building and training initiatives, and are also common in the field of microfinance. The results suggest that the team who had gradually higher stakes seemed to outperform the other two groups, and managed to coordinate successfully in 2/3 of the tasks they were set.

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

Mills Scofield

Among this group has been a founder of a wildlife foundation, a married Wall Street duo, a management consultant, his digital artist wife, and an urban planner. One of his main tasks was to structure a hedging derivative that negated foreign exchange risks so that Microfinance institutions could take safer loans from the developed world.

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Making Microfinance More Effective

Harvard Business Review

Personal savings, insurance, credit, cash transfers from family and friends and other financing mechanisms offer promising opportunities to create security and steady employment but they require a nuanced understanding of product design and the local market conditions in order to be effective.

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Women as Microfinance Leaders, Not Just Clients

Harvard Business Review

We're a network of microfinance organizations; we exist to share practices and develop the leadership skills required by a sector that has grown up fast. And as you might be aware, microfinance is a phenomenon that, while it did not set out to be "for women," has mainly turned out to be.