Steve Jobs famously said that building a company is so hard that “if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.” In fact, to this day, it remains a ...
Tim Gurner, an Australian real estate mogul, recently claimed that millennials struggle financially because they spend their time eating avocado toast instead of working. Are young people really ...
Five years ago, The Economist published an article called European Entrepreneurs – Les Misérables, arguing that the continent suffered from a chronic failure to encourage ambitious entrepreneurship. In it, ...
The Global Accelerator Learning Initiative (GALI) studies accelerators around the world. The objective behind this remarkably comprehensive global data effort is to keep track of the growing number of ...
What keeps Nigerian small and medium enterprises (SMEs) from growing faster? This blog has already covered research on some of the external factors, such as Nigeria’s poor tech infrastructure and often inadequate ...
High growth companies might be the superstars of the business world but they represent only a small portion of the companies in the economy. Most businesses either cannot ...
Entrepreneurs can benefit a lot from a strong and supportive network; whether in terms of social capital, financial capital, legitimacy, or emotional support, company founders have a lot ...
The number of women might have steadily increased over the last two decades in the Bangladeshi economy but they remain vastly underrepresented to this day. Afiya Sultana analyzed ...
Successful businesses are not created overnight. Most entrepreneurs have to take risks and work hard for years before they can reap the rewards of their actions. This explains ...
Female entrepreneurs, like other professionals, often have to make more effort to prove their credibility than their male counterparts, especially when they communicate with VCs, a famously male-dominated ...
Steven Koltai says: In my work in 36 countries over the past 8 years beginning as the first Senior...
