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My 13 Favorite Alternative Funding Options of 2013

Up and Running

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. Peerbackers , Indiegogo , and RocketHub all offer crowdfunding services to international businesses and projects.

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MicroAid: Helping Entrepreneurs Rise Out of Poverty

Up and Running

While in recent years, the rise of microloans and microcredit programs have certainly done some good, there are new ideas cropping up about ways to create sustainable change using education, business planning skills, and technology. A business planning tool with they recommend is LivePlan , an online business planning software.

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Illini Freshman Do #SocEnt in Business School | Business Education

Campus Entrepreneurship

From Don Dodson of The News-Gazette : “The ideas spanned a variety of needs from food, health and sanitation to transportation, education, housing, energy and entrepreneurship,” said Madhubalan Viswanathan, a UI professor of business administration. A system to help shopkeepers with low literacy levels keep track of inventory. —

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How many cofounders should your startup have?

The Next Web

He started his first business at age 15 and ran it until he went off to college at UC Berkeley. When Gleb was in business school at Berkeley he founded NetRelevance – his professors liked his business plan so much that they used it in the Haas School of Business as a teaching tool.

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Exploring The Everyday: Janji Wants You To Change The World By Running

View from Seed

And during that meet we just started typing up the business plan right then and there. We applied for, and eventually won, a business plan competition the next year. Really, at the core of this business, it’s not just about the gear, but there is a sense of greater good behind it. helping them.

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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

The very cool thing about the program, and then some of the other business planning classes that we took afterwards, was we were really encouraged, I think, to look at the need and talk to the people who are experiencing that need most sort of dramatically out in the real world.