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Leveraging the Power of Markets with Microfranchising
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| Microfranchising is a market-based approach to help alleviate poverty and build economic self reliance. |
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Heres a Source I Forgot
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| Lunch with Jack Singer at a new Italian place today gave me the chance to ask him how he started to prospect. Jack's a fund and stock broker who brought his family here from South Africa about a decade ago. Over there he was a druggist, so there were few skills to transfer, other than his business acumen, but no prospects or clients. |
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Meetings, Bloody Meetings
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| Just recently I found myself committed to helping on a fund-raiser. I dutifully attended the meeting with a presentation offering nearly twenty creative ways to market the fund raising event. I was prepared for the meeting, but I wasn’t prepared for the chaos. |
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AfriCap Microfinance Fund Attracts Notable Investors Including Nordic MicroCap, BlueOrchard and Gray Ghost, Raises Capital to $50m
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| AfriCap Microfinance Fund, established in 2001 as the first African private equity fund dedicated to the microfinance industry, has closed a second round of investment, raising its capital from USD 14 million (Sh 910 million) to USD 50 million (Sh 3.25 billion). |
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Nigerian Government Creates $426m Microcredit Development Fund
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| Nigerian President Alhaji Musa Yar’Adua announced the creation of an N50 billion (the equivalent of over USD 426 million) microcredit development fund to be administered by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The new fund will be used to provide existing microfinance institutions (MFIs) with funding for credit creation and operational expenses.
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Old Mutual and South Africa’s Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Launch USD 12.9M Microfinance Initiative, Isivande Women’s Fund (IWF)
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| The Department of Trade and Industry of South Africa (previously reported) has teamed with Old Mutual Group’s Masisizane Fund to launch the Isivande Women’s Fund (IWF), financing women-run enterprises in the country. |
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Old Mutual and South Africa’s Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Launch $12.9m Microfinance Initiative, Isivande Women’s Fund (IWF)
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| The Department of Trade and Industry of South Africa has teamed with Old Mutual Group’s Masisizane Fund to launch the Isivande Women’s Fund (IWF), financing women-run enterprises in the country. The new fund is the result of a 2006 study conducted by the DTI’s Gender and Women Empowerment Unit, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and FinMark. The study found that although women are more responsible managers of credit than men, they only receive 30 percent of loans, with black women receiving the least funding. |
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Top 5 Ways Business Acumen Adds to Your Bottom Line
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| Acumen is described as insight, good judgment and wisdom. Sales acumen combined with business acumen is being hyper aware of trends going on in the world and connecting the trends to your product/service and solutions. The salesperson of the future is moving beyond bonding and rapport; They are professional that know how to carry on a conversation at the 'C' suite. Today's decision maker expects a professional salesperson to understand the business of business.
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Hiring Talented Business Acumen and Business Acu-women
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| Okay, so it was a catchy title-there is really no gender difference when it comes to business acumen. But wait, what exactly do we mean by business acumen, and how do we know it when we see it? |
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Business Acumen Boot Camp is not for Sissies
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| Spring is in the air, buds are starting to bloom, the economy is starting to turn, and the sap is rising in the veins of entrepreneur’s everywhere (forgive the poetic license – it has been a hard winter). But although our entrepreneur’s sap is rising (when we say sap, think: motivation, frustration, ambition), their business acumen skills may not be up to the job? Here is where Business Acumen Boot Camp training can payoff. |
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Leadership Acumen
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| What is leadership acumen? Leadership always yields tangible business results in the long-term. Since acumen is about insight and wise action, let’s consider it in context of great leadership and excellent business. |
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