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A Newbie’s Guide To Microfinancing

YoungUpstarts

Grameen Bank , the first large microfinance bank, was founded and continues to operate as a global nonprofit. However, there is debate in the microfinance community as to whether their services should be for-profit or not-for-profit. Who invented microfinancing? Does microfinancing actually work?

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William Miller on Business Model Innovation

Life Beyond Code

WM: No business is an island, separate and independent from the society it operates in. A value proposition is the promise of value to be given to a constituent (customer, client, community, etc.). Now, to the interview. RS: Is the main purpose of a business model to define how the company will make money?

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6 Forward-thinking Businesses That Are Making the World a Better Place

Up and Running

Bonus points for the fact that they partner with the social enterprise Vision Spring to facilitate training for optometrists and eye glass manufacturers in the same countries that they donate glasses to (India, Guatemala, and Bangladesh to name a few), so the communities also receive opportunities for sustainable income.

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Remote Jobs: The Fair Pay Rate Dilemma

Transformify

Usually, the ‘’overseas remote worker’’ has incorporated a legal entity, has an office and pretends to be operating an extremely profitable business. ‘’ABC, a US company, signs an agreement with Mr ‘’X’’, a citizen of Bangladesh. ’’ Round-tripping.

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And Then They Came for Me …

Both Sides of the Table

You don’t get to call for a religious test to enter our country, potentially denying access to more than 1 billion Muslim people in the world including very large populations in Indonesia, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. You don’t get to create a division between the 3.3 Or is that hyperbole?