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Yes, Your Pitch Deck is That Important: Here’s How to Get Investors’ Attention and Raise Your First $100K
Entrepreneurs often have a lot of misconceptions around fundraising when they start their business. And according to Mehak Malik, Investment Associate at Beyond Capital Fund, these misunderstandings can undermine one key element of their success: the all-important pitch deck. She discusses the questions entrepreneurs need to ask themselves before drafting a pitch deck, based on a recent series of entrepreneur workshops from Beyond Capital and ANDE.
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- Entrepreneurship, Investing
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What Does ‘Selling Out’ Mean? Four Lessons on Navigating Trade-offs While Scaling Your Social Enterprise
“Selling out” is a common concern for social entrepreneurs, as they strive to balance their ideals with the needs of a growing business. But Amanda West at Mercy Corps Ventures raises an interesting question: Can one person’s “selling out” be another person’s logical business decision? She explores the inevitable compromises that occur when a social business scales up, and shares lessons learned by four prominent enterprises that have scaled their impact.
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- Entrepreneurship
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Empowering Female Entrepreneurs: Solutions to Five Key Barriers to Women’s Financial Inclusion
In developing countries, only 59% of women have a bank account – an issue VisionFund is addressing through its Women’s Empowerment Fund. But though the fund has supported thousands of female-led businesses, it has also faced persistent challenges – many of which are unique to women. Johanna Ryan, VisionFund's Global Director of Impact, discusses five obstacles the fund has encountered, and how they've responded.
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PayPal Helps Entrepreneurs With MetLife and Village Capital
PayPal, venture capital firm Village Capital and financial health expert, MetLife Foundation, have come to together to launch Finance Forward – a global coalition to support fresh entrepreneurs.
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- Entrepreneurship, Finance, Health Care
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Why China’s Next Crop of ‘Techpreneurs’ Are Skipping Home and Eyeing a Fresh Gold Rush in New Markets
China’s tech entrepreneurs are finding that affordable innovation appeals in developing markets.
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- Entrepreneurship, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Sustainable Business in an Unsustainable World: Three Companies that Show the Impact of Corporate Shared Value
In the U.S., 95% of college grads consider a sense of purpose important in their work, while globally, two-thirds of people are willing to pay more for products from companies committed to positive impact. William Towns of Benefit Chicago discusses the implications of this shifting mentality, and explores how it's being put into practice by several social enterprises across the Chicagoland region.
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- Entrepreneurship
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Flipkart Launches ‘Samarth’ to Empower Indian Artisans, Weavers, Craftsmen
This move will open up national market access for these underserved communities.
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- Entrepreneurship, Technology
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- South Asia
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Getting Past Doubt: Finding Better Ways for Multinationals and SMEs to Intersect
Developing countries have become increasingly important to multinational companies, with foreign direct investment often outpacing development aid. Meanwhile, the 400 million micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises in these countries are facing a wide variety of obstacles to growth. The new Catalyzing SGB Acceleration initiative, launched by TechnoServe and the Argidius Foundation, aims to find common ground between those two worlds. Juan Carlos Thomas and Annie Shoemaker at TechnoServe discuss the new project.
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- Entrepreneurship, Investing
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