entrepreneurship

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Social Enterprise

We have to grow: 3 strategies for social startups to scale up

You’re an entrepreneur with an innovative, potentially life-changing product. Next step: Expand and reach your target population. Easier said than done.

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Value Chains

Why smart multinationals are creating awards for social innovators

What would the Academy be without the Oscars? What would NCAA basketball be without March Madness?

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Social Enterprise

Talent scramble: 5 smart staffing tips for social enterprises

Social entrepreneurs don’t just need lots of investors and a jazzy business plan. They also need to invest in their workers.

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Social Enterprise

New web series examines the social enterprise launch pad

Experts in impact investing are getting together on NextBillion to talk about what impact investment funds can do better to help early-stage startups get off the ground.

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Youth Skills

Tweetable insights on entrepreneurship from Google's Cairo confab

The Giza sun elicited hot topics last Saturday as emerging entrepreneurs and experienced experts shared challenges and strategies for new business in the Middle East and North Africa.

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Social Enterprise

Interview: EcoZoom on building a market for clean cookstoves in developing economies

Three billion people--half the world's population--need a safer way to cook.

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Social Enterprise

Africa is finally booming, but don’t break out the champagne yet

Africans are celebrating levels of economic growth and political stability that were unthinkable just 10 years ago, but without the appropriate economic and political reforms, the continent could quickly relapse.

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Financial Inclusion

Book Review: A firsthand look at Kiva entrepreneurs across the globe

In an ideal world, microfinance is the perfect mechanism for alleviating financial stress on new and small businesses. But how well does it work in real life?

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Social Enterprise

Will corruption suffocate Africa's new tech incubators?

As hopes rise for a Silicon Revolution in Africa, two incubators are using different tactics to create tech success stories, while meddling government policies are dampening the optimism.

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Social Enterprise

Interview: D-Rev's Krista Donaldson on designing health products for the world's poor

Across the globe, public hospitals struggle to pay for resources needed to treat even the most basic inflictions. But a San Francisco based non-profit is working to change that.

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Social Enterprise

Why China must build a supportive ecosystem for its new crop of NGOs

China’s fast-growing mass of social entrepreneurs are being held back by government regulation and a lack of funding, according to a new report by Hong Kong-based FYSE.

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Social Enterprise

How a Palestinian social gaming startup is taking off

Ayman Awartani is practically glowing as he tells the story of his startup, and with good reason.

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Social Enterprise

Meet MicroMentor, a free 'dating' website for business mentorship

MicroMentor is the OK Cupid of business mentorship sites--and it, too, is looking for new revenue streams.

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Social Enterprise

Pakistan patches up a startup culture tattered by disorder

With unrest stirring, Pakistan needs leaders to provide constructive answers to society’s challenges. Social entrepreneurs can do that, but they need mentors, says a recent report by the Economic Policy Group.

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Social Enterprise

Extreme by design: Film tracks the world's biggest little ideas

Innovative, life-changing products offer simple solutions to complex problems in impoverished places. But their conception is often anything but simple.