Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2023

This plan needs to clearly outline your company’s goals, operations, and financial projections. Some alternative sources of funding for businesses include: Grants from government agencies or private foundations Microfinance organisations that provide small loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries.

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Venture Capitalist Finance Microfinance How To 107

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Six years ago, David and Donna Allman approached Opportunity with an idea that fell outside our traditional microfinance model: to build a Community Economic Development (CED) program in Nicaragua. On a recent trip, he briefed me on his business plan and on the school's operations with the maturity and confidence of a seasoned entrepreneur.

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Microfinance Rogers Tourism Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

These hybrids pursue a social mission while engaging in commercial activities that generate revenues that help them sustain their operations. Frogtek and many other hybrids sell goods and services, and rely on revenues to sustain and scale their operations. Take, for example, the issue of economic development.

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Entrepreneur Microfinance Market Segmentation Incubator 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

On December 2-3, the United Nations will host a seminar in Sierra Leone on "Strategies and Lessons Learned on Sustainable Reintegration and Job Creation: What Works in West Africa?" Upon graduation, the governments, nonprofits, or (more recently) microfinance companies give them loans to buy tools and opens shops.

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Microfinance Seminar How To Education 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2014

This is a nascent sector where entrepreneurs and investors are still figuring out business models, developing new financial products, and proving exit strategies and exit multiples, and only a handful of players are using agreed-upon metrics for assessing social impact. First, impact investing needs time to develop.

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Development Microfinance Biotechnology Exit Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2012

This combination of higher margins and higher price points boosts the contribution — the amount of money that goes to covering fixed and operating costs — generated from every transaction. They also need to drive up the price point for a single transaction. Offer an enabling service.

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Bottom-up Microfinance Price Banking 10