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How Can I Start My Own Business?

Strategy Driven

Take to your social media outlets or even create a GoFundMe page and get the word out. Microfinance organizations provide small loans in order to help entrepreneurs get their business off the ground in the beginning. For more information on microfinancing, consider this article on: what is microfinance ?

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Servant Leadership Observer ? November 2010

Modern Servant Leader

Peer-to-Peer Microfinance: A Sustainable Solution to Poverty. Know Your Social Media Hierarchy. Social Media. Publishing The New Advanced Degree Model? Servant Leadership Observer – December 2010. Careers for Servant Leaders. The Value of Making Time for Gratitude. Servant Leadership Manifesto. Leadership. Management.

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

Harvard Business Review

Last summer, Social Enterprise @ Goizueta set out with Village Capital , a peer-based accelerator program, to learn (among other things) whether social entrepreneurs with larger social-media followings are showing greater commercial promise. We found that social media is a young person's — specifically, a young woman's — game.

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How to Make Room in Your Work Life for the Rest of Your Self

Harvard Business Review

Some people are increasingly using social media to control the boundaries between their identities. For example, one microfinance organization that is dually devoted to advancing a social mission and being commercial viable says employees are both “social workers” and “bankers.”

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