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NextThought Monday: Creative Ways to Boost Youth Entrepreneurship
The risks of investing in young entrepreneurs are well known: inexperienced managers, murky business plans, overly optimistic views of the market, etc., etc. Youth Business International (YBI) recently issued Closing the Gap, a report that pulled together several case studies showing how the finance gap can be bridged for young entrepreneurs.
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Cornell students help corporations and Kenya’s poor build business partnerships
Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, is one of East Africa’s largest slums and the setting for the recent film The Constant Gardener, which presents images of grinding poverty, tempered by people’s spirit of endurance. A story of another kind is also unfolding in Kibera and in Nyota township in rural Kenya -- one in which a multinational corporation assumes the unlikely role of business partner to poo...
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