Category: By Thierry Sanders
Let’s get Startups financed, but then without a crowdfunding platform … here’s how
Crowd funding is all the fashion these days. But it takes a lot of marketing skills and some IT know-how to get this going. For those of you who already have all the parts of the puzzle, but not the platform, here is the alternative. Let’s deal with this in a simple way, the
Continue ReadingDo international SME investment funds kill the rise of local investors?
March 2011 Normally I would welcome every new fund that invests in developing country businesses with open arms. After all finance for businesses in developing countries is hard to come by. Especially young businesses with a lack of track record. Or growing businesses that are constantly strapped for cash to fuel their growth. Every new
Continue Reading4 ways to make sustainable businesses work in developing countries
September 2010 In 2012 the Rio+20 Summit will take place in Rio de Janeiro. Besides commemorating the UNCED conference 20 years ago, a new sustainability agenda for the next 20 years will be drawn up. I was asked to provide 4 recommendations to the Netherlands Committee going to Rio. The bottom-line is that most businesses
Continue ReadingDo emerging markets need impact investors?
Impact Investing Magazine, December 2012
Six ways your company can reduce poverty
You and your company can reduce poverty, here are six approaches: Drink a beer at a luxury hotel in Sierra Leone; Throw bales of money out of a helicopter over farmland; Sell water in Kibera slum, Nairobi at twice the price of that in the city centre; Use your weight; Invest in a budding new
Continue ReadingBeyond Aid (ODA)
The current system of Overseas Development Aid (ODA) needs reform. In a “Beyond ODA” debate at the Society for International Development on he contends against the OECD Development Assistance Committee Chair, J Brian Atwood, and CEO of FMO, Nanno Kleiterp. ” Imagine….We are at the 2015 G20 Summit, I am presenting the new Development Cooperation
Continue ReadingbidX in 1 minute at the G20 Summit 2010 – Seoul, South Korea
“…In just 5 years BiD Network grew from an idea into being the largest web-platform for SMEs in developing counties. We have helped thousands of entrepreneurs – including Stewart Craine of Barefoot Power, who is also a G20 winner. It all starts by guiding an entrepreneur in writing a business plan. We have hundreds of
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