All Blog Posts Tagged 'entrepreneurship' (11)

MyC4 - http://www.myc4.com MyC4 raises capital for African entrepreneurs, and in so doing is striving to become a significant tool in the fight to end extreme poverty. MYC4 is an online marketplace that connects you directly with African entrepreneurs, who lack capital to develop their businesses. We see a huge business potential in Africa waiting to be triggered. MYC4 is the explosive, they claim. Continue

Today sees the launch of Global Entrepreneurship Week, a wonderful initiative to “inspire young people to embrace innovation, imagination and creativity”. Entrepreneurship will be the engine of economic recovery, of poverty reduction and of a more environmentally sustainable future. Last year, over three million people around the world participated in events. To get involved this year,… Continue

Hi Everyone Venture Capital and Private Equity in Africa (VC4Africa.com) is an initiative that seeks to connect investors and entrepreneurs. It is dedicated to building sustainable business in Africa. If you like the project please vote for it on Idea Blob - see below - it really doesn't take long at all. If the project wins, the money will be used to pay the salaries of young developers in Kampala, Uganda. These funds mean we can add new tools (Afridex.net) and improve the functionality of the… Continue

As the unemployment rates are rising across the world economies, its time to give a serious look on how entrepreneurship can effectively reduce poverty through self employment. For an individual, it may not always be possible to acquire the requisite monetary resources and technical expertise to start up a new venture. Hence a good idea can be that entrepreneurs can form a group as in a partnership and pool up the necessaries for a successful venture. Ultimately through promotion of new entrep… Continue

Turning Garbage into Fortune Cited from KMBI web, a success story of entrepreneurship with microfinance as an enabling vehicle. http://www.kmbi.org.ph/storiesview.php?ID=7 ----- Waste disposal is a chronic problem in our society. And most solutions have been to look for a wide area where to dump everybody’s garbage, not giving regard to the possible health hazards it may bring the populace in the area. A modest citizen, in the persona of Anita Consuegra, took into her own hands, a solut… Continue

JOBS FOR ALL Cited from our partner organization's web. Emilia Manaloto is a microfinance client, and a success story of grassroot entrepreneurship... --- Behind Emilia Manaloto's innocent countenance is a shrewd businesswoman. Only 29 years old, Emy is managing a business that employs 12 workers and earns P24,000 ($392) every week. That in itself may not be much compared to other businesses, but then she is only a high school graduate, a mother of five and living in a squatter resettlem… Continue

I am a writer for NextBillion.net and would love to hear from the Business Fights Poverty community about what members are thinking and doing regarding social entrepreneurship and the new Administration. Continue

I published a piece on NextBillion.net about the connection between Obama, social entrepreneurs, and business at the base of the pyramid. Hope you enjoy. Continue

BOP Source needs your vote! Check it out: http://www.change.org/ideas/view/connect_the_global_poor_to_life-saving_products_and_jobs Jenara Continue

This week is Global Entrepreneurship Week. In the UK, Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Lord Peter Mandelson have been advocating it vigorously in public. Here's a reflection from Business Fights Poverty member, Peter Heslam, entitled 'Unleashing Entrepreneurship', which was released at the start of the week to a large radio and online audience. Peter is also co-organizing… Continue

Africa's youth are the ones who will create the business that have strong civic ties. These youth entrepreneurs will not only create businesses which will fund projects aimed at eliminating poverty, they will create businesses that attack the challenge of poverty directly. Organizations like Top30Under30 are bringing African entrepreneurs to the fore and helping them connect with valuable business networks across the continent and beyond. Another great way of getting youth excited about entrepr… Continue