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The World Bank has released their annual report on Doing Business. This report is “a guide for evaluating regulations that directly impact economic growth, downloading underlying laws, making cross-country comparisons, and identifying good practice reforms.”
For anyone looking to start a business overseas, this is a HUGE resource. The report ranks countries across a variety […]

Back in the year 2000, the member-nations of the UN unanimously agreed upon a resolution titled the “Millennium Development Goals”. These 8 objectives aim to make radical improvements to the lives of those living in the Developing World. If all goes well, the goals should be achieved by the year 2015. We are half way […]

What you see above is the daily budget for over a billion people across the developing world.
(I will refrain from inserting a guilt inducing comparison between that dollar and the amount we spend on coffee/music/junk/etc… We all know we over-consume)
Tim Harford, writing for Slate.com, gives us insight into the lives of these people living in […]

A recent study suggests that the traditional business plan might not be as useful as once thought…
Spending months and months researching and writing “the perfect plan” doesn’t necessary improve your start-up’s chance of success. William Bygrave, an entrepreneurship professor from Babson College, suggests that entrepreneurs stick to a more “informal” plan that will push them […]

For those looking to start their own business, Seth Godin provides one of the best (and free) resources to help you manage the task of “bootstrapping” your own new venture.

The Bootstrapper’s Bible contains many helpful tools that will guide a business owner on the path towards profitability. FYI: A “bootstrapper” is an individual who is […]

One of the primary inhibitors to the launch of new “Business as Mission” (BAM) ventures is the simple fact that starting a new business is HARD!
It is hard enough just to start a successful, non-BAM business in the US, let alone attempting to do this in a foreign country. Throw on top of that the […]

dotOrganize, an organization that helps social change agents effectively utilize online resources, spent 9 months interviewing over 400 groups to determine the “state of online technology in the social change sector”. They just recently released their findings in a report entitled “ONLINE TECHNOLOGY FOR SOCIAL CHANGE: FROM STRUGGLE TO STRATEGY“.
Many of the findings in the […]