Entrepreneurship media often makes funding sound like a two-option decision. Bootstrap your company. Or find investors. In reality, businesses can use several types of capital. That matters because women entrepreneurs continue to face financing constraints in many markets. The World Bank notes that women-owned SMEs in emerging markets face limitations in accessing finance and can […]

For many entrepreneurs, the entire business is sitting inside one smartphone. Banking. Email. WhatsApp. Customer conversations. Photographs. Invoices. Social media. Documents. Passwords. A stolen device or compromised account can therefore become more than an inconvenience. It can become a business crisis. Cybersecurity should not be treated as something only large technology companies need. NIST recommends […]

Artificial intelligence has rapidly entered everyday business conversations. Unfortunately, much of the advice sounds like this: “Here are 100 AI tools every entrepreneur needs.” The problem is that downloading more tools does not automatically create a better business. A more useful question is: Where can AI improve an existing business process? The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor’s […]