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Importance of Finance to Your Business

The Startup Magazine

In South Africa especially, there is an underlying need to keep a business well financed and managed, in alignment with the economic development goals of the country. This means for the initial capital investment must be well managed, with a thin line between debt and equity financing. Financial goals.

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Best Practices for Nonprofit Civic Engagement

Board Effect

Nonprofits enhance civic engagement by encouraging community involvement, maintaining a sense of democracy, filling the gaps in governments services, and giving the community a voice. The term ‘community engagement’ is popular in Australia, South Africa, and Canada, while public involvement is the most common term in the United Kingdom.

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ESG and Nonprofit Boards

Board Effect

ESG , or environmental, social , and governance, is an issue that’s making big waves, and ESG for nonprofits is getting its share of attention as well. The governance portion of ESG has to do with how ethically organizations govern themselves. Why should that matter to your nonprofit?

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Can Ireland Offer Startups Something Silicon Valley Can’t?

ReadWriteStart

“Our startups get tons of hands-on support – much more than they’d get almost anywhere else in the world,” says Lorcan O’Sullivan, manager of Enterprise Ireland , one of the latest of the many campaigns by governments around the globe to attract startups to their shores and inject new life into their local economies.

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10 Diversity & Inclusion Events You Won’t Want To Miss At SXSW

Austin Startup

We're excited to be working with @theohubs to forge the path towards true diversity, equity and inclusion this @sxsw. a landmark initiative that brings together industry, government and HBCUs to help craft universal best practices for recruiting and retaining diverse talent in tech. We put them in a nifty list just for you.

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Best Web Analytics 2.0 Tools: Quantitative, Qualitative, Life Saving!

Occam's Razor

I do not have financial or equity or any other stake in any company mentioned in this blog post (except Google). Most outcomes analysis you will do in identifying your macro and micro conversions (for profit or non profit sites, government or ecommerce) will happen inside other tools mentioned in this blog post.

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Impact Investing: a time for problems to become opportunities

VC Cafe

Impact Investing has been around for a long time, most prominently since the 1960’s as companies and governments began engaging with the concept through private equity and debt investing in developing economies. Impact tech investors include Bridges Fund Managements, DBL, Accion, Elevar equity and Patamar, among others.