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10 Amazing Microfinance Success Stories

YoungUpstarts

SHARE Micro Finance Limited, India. After five years of being turned down by lenders, she approached the Kenya Women Finance Trust for a $680 loan. Parveen Baji, Pakistan. Her business selling jewelry and perfume is still growing, enough that Calzado can afford to do charity work with immigrant women.

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Geography of The Great Resignation: What Is the Global Impact?

Board Effect

Many of them may be switching to industries such as IT, law, human resources, life sciences, mining, and finance, as these industries are apt to pay higher salaries. LinkedIn reports a 26% increase in Australian workers who switched jobs compared with pre-pandemic levels. The Great Resignation in Asia. Washington Post.

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HOW TO: Sign Up Users Even Before You Launch Your Startup

mashable.com

Asghar says: Military action in Abbottabad (Pakistan) was nothing but a drama entailing conspiracy just like the conspiracy of 9/11 to wage a crusade war against the Muslim world in the guise of self-designed War on Terror. We had evidence on Bush and people chose to ignore it’ icyeh says: Yes.

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200.000.000 mobile users, for starters – Q&A with Viber CEO Talmon Marco

The Next Web

Funding is still “friends and family” We never did an institutional round of financing. We recently announced partnerships with Axis in Indonesia and Mobilink in Pakistan. The company is based in Cyprus with development centers in Belarus, Israel and China. Maybe someday.

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100 Most Inspiring People On Twitter

YoungUpstarts

ManVsDebt : Need to get your finances in order? FarrukhSiddiqui : HR professional Farrukh Siddiqui shares updates about his native Pakistan as well as some truly inspirational quotes. @pwdan : Dan Millman, author of Way of the Peaceful Warrior , uses his Twitter feed to encourage readers to make changes in their lives, right now.

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14 Entrepreneurs Describe The BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals) For Their Business?

Hearpreneur

And unlike other fintech companies that are primarily equity-financed, we raise capital by offering a best in class savings product to consumers (a 1 month renewable CD that pays 6% APY), which in turn allows us to meet our short term capital needs required for loan origination.

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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. We are the global cabal who control finance, media and governments in the eyes of the conspiracy theorists.