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1) The Business Solution to Poverty: Designing Products and Services for Three Billion New Customers
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Right now, the number of people living on $2 or less a day is more than the entire population of the world in 1950. These 2.7 billion people are not just the world's greatest challenge; they represent an extraordinary market opportunity. By learning how to serve them ethically and effectively, businesses can earn handsome profits while helping to solve one of the world's most intractable problems. The key is what Paul Polak and Mal Warwick call Zero-Based...
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Entrepreneurship and innovation have emerged globally as significant drivers for inclusive economic growth, contributing to both job and wealth creation. Especially since Egypt's 2011 revolution, the need has become pressing for novel models that capitalize on the country's human resources. Half of the Egyptian population is less than 25 years old and almost one quarter is between 18 and 29 years old. More than any other time, an entrepreneurial spirit...
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China is now the biggest foreign player in Africa.
It's Africa's largest trade partner, the largest infrastructure financier, and the fastest-growing source of foreign direct investment. Chinese entrepreneurs are flooding into the continent, investing in long-term assets such as factories and heavy equipment.
Considering Africa's difficult history of colonialism, one might suspect that China's activity there is another instance of a foreign power...
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Una mentalidad de empresario que llega al éxito.
Juan Carlos Zamora Soriano no proviene de familia de empresarios ni de inversionistas, nunca fue el más destacado en la escuela ni recibió herencia alguna; tampoco ganó la lotería... Y sin embargo, ha recibido premios y reconocimientos como empresario por su labor en la creación de empresas de éxito a nivel local, nacional e internacional. Entonces, ¿dónde está su secreto? ¿De dónde proviene...
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Different strategies and tactics to accelerate innovation and growth through collaboration.
This is not the hype story of how cool startups are and why you should invest in them with a fund or setup an accelerator. Corporate Venturing is so much more than CVC - Corporate Venture Capital. The aim of this book is to provide insights in the different strategies and tactics to accelerate innovation and growth through collaboration, as well as plenty...
6) Vultured
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In America's small business landscape, the fail-success rate leans entirely too far in favor of failure, and past experiences provided the author with invaluable insight into many of the reasons. Adam Starks' Vultured is part autobiography, part self-help book highlighting the dark side of entrepreneurship by identifying pitfalls in the decision-making process as it relates to starting and running a small business. Serving as a cautionary tale, the...
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THE BOLD SECRET TO SUCCESSFUL STARTUPS
Veteran venture capitalist Uri Adoni shares the secrets to Israel's incredible track record of success in this new guide that will help make any startup unstoppable.
More than half of all startups fail-often during the crucial early stages of development when they need to prove their viability on a limited budget. But when it comes to startup success, one country stands out: Israel. Even though it is a relatively...
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It has long been recognized that most standard of living increases are associated with advances in technology, not the accumulation of capital. Yet it has also become clear that what truly separates developed from less developed countries is not just a gap in resources or output but a gap in knowledge. In fact, the pace at which developing countries grow is largely determined by the pace at which they close that gap. Therefore, how countries learn...
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Is poverty inevitable? No, says author Paul Godfrey. More than Money shows how organizations can win the fight against poverty and create prosperity for people at the base of the pyramid in the developing and developed world. This book presents a novel framework that shows how five types of interrelated capital-institutional, human, social, organizational, and physical-enable development and sustainable growth. In addition to a widely-applicable model,...
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The social sector is undergoing a major transformation. We are witnessing an explosion in efforts to deliver social change, a burgeoning impact investing industry, and an unprecedented intergenerational transfer of wealth. Yet we live in a world of rapidly rising inequality, where social sector services are unable to keep up with societal need, and governments are stretched beyond their means.
Alnoor Ebrahim addresses one of the fundamental dilemmas...
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Voilà un livre qui bouscule pas mal d'idées reçues en matière de crowdfunding et qui, pour le moins, va à contre-courant de la tendance observée dans la plupart des publications concernant ce phénomène en vogue.
Le lecteur se rendra compte que la ferveur autour du financement participatif ne doit pas masquer l'amateurisme de certains de ses acteurs.
En révélant ce qu'il y a derrière le discours marketing bien rodé de la plupart des plateformes,...
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Ce livre s'adresse à toute personne désirant fonder ou développer une start-up.
Cet(te) entrepreneur(e), vous peut-être, est confronté(e) à de nombreuses questions, auxquelles nous allons répondre en trois étapes, au travers de l'analyse de « légendes populaires »:
• Créer votre start-up sans moyen financier: nous allons voir ce qu'est réellement une start-up et découvrir ensemble que l'image d'une start-up centrée uniquement sur...
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A Harvard Business School professor and international entrepreneur explains the crucial ingredient for success in the developing world.
Entrepreneurial ventures often fail in the developing world because of the lack of something taken for granted in the developed world: trust. Over centuries the developed world has built up customs and institutions like enforceable contracts, an impartial legal system, credible regulatory bodies, even unofficial...
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A medium risk trading system for high returns: We will use Betfair Exchange for demonstration purposes. There are other Sports Exchange sites — Smarkets, Matchbook, BetDaq - but Betfair is far ahead on number of users and amounts of money coming into play, liquidity. If you do not know how a Sports Betting Exchange works compared to usual Bookmakers — now is the time to do some research and learn. This Guide is not about that. Focus on: better...
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The #New Normal Work-Life Balance
Are You Struggling To Balance Your Work & Life Amid This New Normal?
Discover How to Get Control of Your Life, Avoid Stress & Burnouts By Maintaining A Proper Balance Between Your Work & Life While Working Remotely During This Pandemic!!!
It has been over a year, and we've seen and done things we'd never imagine! From stockpiling toilet paper, hand sanitizer, fighting over face masks, to working from the couch....
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Ce livre s'adresse à toute personne désirant fonder ou développer une start-up.
Cet(te) entrepreneur(e), vous peut-être, est confronté(e) à de nombreuses questions, auxquelles nous allons répondre en trois étapes, au travers de l analyse de «légendes populaires»:
- Créer votre start-up sans moyen financier: nous allons voir ce qu'est réellement une start-up et découvrir ensemble que l image d'une start-up centrée uniquement sur les...
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Le guide 100% pratique pour booster votre business dans la joie! Vous êtes une entrepreneure dans le secteur de l'accompagnement personnel ou professionnel qui démarre son activité ou vous exercez depuis quelques années?
Votre activité n'est pas rentable, vous n'arrivez pas à vous rémunérer ou très peu? Pourquoi? Quels sont vos freins? Quelles sont les clés business qui vous manquent?
Ce guide pratique va vous faciliter la vie pour que...
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The must-read summary of John Naisbitt's book: "Global Paradox: The Bigger the World Economy, the More Powerful Its Smallest Players".
This complete summary of the ideas from John Naisbitt's book "Global Paradox" answers a fundamental question: what is the global paradox? In his book, the author explains that as the world economy expands, the smallest elements (right down to the individual) will become ever more significant. The global paradox is...
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Fr. Greg MacLeod gained national and international recognition for his research exploring novel ways of doing business. Over a period of more than forty years, he experimented in his local economy (Cape Breton) designing and starting new enterprises and rescuing faltering ones.
This book examines the techniques he developed and compares them with more conventional ways of doing business arguing that through his action research, Fr. Greg revealed himself...
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The must-read summary of Ken Fisher's book: "The Ten Roads to Riches: The Ways the Wealthy Got There (and How You Can Too!)".
This complete summary of the ideas from Ken Fisher's book "The Ten Roads to Riches" shows that when you get right down to brass tacks, there are only ten methodical and legal ways you can get rich. In his book, the author explains that if you genuinely aspire to be rich, you need to figure out which of these roads makes the...
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