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How to Raise Money as a Business

Strategy Driven

Whether you need to raise money to fund a new startup or to expand an existing business, financing can be a complex process. Factors that can impact the timeline include the size of the funding request, the specific requirements and processes of your investors or lenders, and the level of competition for financing in your industry.

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I'm a bank - well, with the help of Kiva.org!

Jason Womack

Intercontinental Ballistic Microfinance from Kiva Microfunds on Vimeo. What happens when 620,000 lenders fund 615,000 entrepreneurs, students, and other microfinance borrowers around the world? Thanks to all the lenders, borrowers, partners, and team members who brightened this map - and helped to change lives in the process.

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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.

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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.

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Why CEOs have Liberal Arts Degrees

Mills Scofield

She's spending the summer in Dhaka doing microfinance. But I argue it gives me something even better: critical thinking skills. Critical thinking skills. Quite the buzzword these days. She is now the core programming director for the Brown Entrepreneurship Program and Head of Design for The Intercollegiate Finance Journal.

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Why CEOs have Liberal Arts Degrees

Mills Scofield

She's spending the summer in Dhaka doing microfinance. But I argue it gives me something even better: critical thinking skills. Critical thinking skills. Quite the buzzword these days. She is now the core programming director for the Brown Entrepreneurship Program and Head of Design for The Intercollegiate Finance Journal.

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Funders Can Give More than Money

Harvard Business Review

They want to experience first-hand the process by which their dollars are put to work breaking cycles of poverty and building cycles of financial security. It called for leveraging the profits of the global microfinance institution, and coupling them with private investments from the Allmans and their donor network.