When turning to investors for investment in your company, you should give the potential investor the peace of mind to feel comfortable about your company before they invest in your venture…

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With business failing at an alarming rate the need has never been greater to start off on the right foot with a clear understanding of exactly what you hope to achieve and how you will do it…

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A business plan is simply a resume for your proposed business. Its primary importance is that your business plan becomes your calling card…

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Know everything about current best practices on the valuation of Private Equity & VC investments; the jargons & recommendations…

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Just like any other process there is a need for an Investor to understand the nuances & criticality of the Investment Process…

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A leap beyond low-cost services to high-value products and quality entrepreneurship has led to a change in VC investment in India

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Venture capital firms typically source the majority of their funding from large investment institutions such as fund of funds, financial institutions, endowments, pension funds and banks...

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Though financial sustainability is essential for massively expanding services, it does not automatically ensure that client-level benefits are realized…

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The power of the microfinance ideal lies in its potential to combine financial sustainability with meeting social goals, achieving the ‘double bottom line’ of financial and social performance….

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It turns out that the trick to getting impact measurement right at ‘the organization’ is to move out of the organization into the larger ecosystem in which the organization lives…

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The bottom of the (economic) pyramid consists of the 4 billion people living on less that $2 a day. This defining article by CK Prahalad and Stuart L. Hart identifies the fortune at the bottom of the pyramid

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Working with social entrepreneurs is a good strategy for a funding organization – a small investment can have a large multiplier effect, new expertise is rapidly copied.

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In a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the software tycoon Bill Gates plans to call for a "creative capitalism" that uses market forces to address poor-country needs that he feels are being ignored.

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Looking at the social sector through the capital market lens is helpful: from this perspective the social sector looks like a capital market with a missing link – banks

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The lack of capital and the means to distribute it effectively to build strong and healthy organizations are what keep most subsectors of the nonprofit field from developing stable, sustainable organizations.

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Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) are an important ingredient for stable and equitable growth in any national economy...

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A concise article defining mesofinance in the context of how it helps solve poverty. It clearly describes the neglected ‘Gap’ between microfinance and ‘macrofinance’ identifying what is driving this push to fill the gap.

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Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) form the backbone of modern economies and can be crucial engines of development through their role as seedbeds of innovation…

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At the time of India's independence in the year 1947, the nation had a plethora of serious problems to face, viz. shortage of food-grains, poor infrastructure, lack of financial resources, high rate of illiteracy and poor industrial base…

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World Bank report outlining the economic rationale for SME intervention. Looking at SME development through the broader context of industrial structure this report considers the rationale for SME intervention on both theoretical and empirical grounds.

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