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My 13 Favorite Alternative Funding Options of 2013

Up and Running

RocketHub also recently partnered with the TV channel A&E for marketing and funding help for their favorite fundraising campaigns. From their website: While microfinance has helped millions, many people have been left out: Think remote rural villages in Kenya or recent refugees with no credit history in the United States.

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Women 2.0 Pitch Night…batter swing!

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Some of the finalists were generating revenues already and/or have very promising strategic partnerships lined up. Kenya is the most advanced for mobile payment. ObjectiveMarketer offers an integrated platform for businesses to create, execute and optimize powerful multi-channel social media marketing programs.

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Women 2.0 Pitch Night…batter swing!

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Some of the finalists were generating revenues already and/or have very promising strategic partnerships lined up. Kenya is the most advanced for mobile payment. ObjectiveMarketer offers an integrated platform for businesses to create, execute and optimize powerful multi-channel social media marketing programs.

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Beware The Consultant

infochachkie.com

For instance, if a consultant proposes to help you with public relations, pay them a commission equivalent to the greater of a flat fee per story placed or a percentage of revenue generated from the PR coverage. Kenya Dream Epitomizes The Art Of “Fun-raising” Philanthropy. |. Performance-based deals are healthy for all parties.

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Are Banks the Next Dinosaurs?

thebarefootvc

The most documented example of this is M-Pesa’s mobile money platform in Kenya, which I have written about a few times on this blog, including in my thesis piece When Third is First. billion unbanked adults (half of the world’s adult population).

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Are Banks the Next Dinosaurs?

thebarefootvc

The most documented example of this is M-Pesa’s mobile money platform in Kenya, which I have written about a few times on this blog, including in my thesis piece When Third is First. billion unbanked adults (half of the world’s adult population).

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Out of the Crisis #19: Revolution Foods co-founders on feeding kids and families, being parent-entrepreneurs, and scaling food security innovations

Startup Lessons Learned

They found ways to support longterm care facilities, homeless shelters, and other locations serving those most at risk, all while schools, their main source of revenue, were closed. I was talking in one of these conversations with Brian Chesky, who talked about the collapse of revenue and the dramatic effect that this had on Airbnb.