Entrepreneurs
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And what they did is they took those funds and they invested them in an independent trust, and they used that trust to fund loans to these black
entrepreneurs.
They can support a lot more
entrepreneurs
with capital, and because their success is completely intertwined with the success of the entrepreneurs, they're actually also using the fund to provide technical assistance.
More
entrepreneurs
supported, more people and communities being lifted out of poverty.
It was a speaking event in front of groups of
entrepreneurs
from around the world.
If we can teach our kids to be entrepreneurial, the ones that show the traits to be, like we teach the ones who have science gifts to go on in science, what if we saw the ones with entrepreneurial traits and taught them to be
entrepreneurs?
Our MBA programs do not teach kids to be
entrepreneurs.
The reason I avoided an MBA program, other than that I didn't get into any, since I had a 61 percent average out of high school, then a 61 percent average at the only school in Canada that accepted me, Carlton, is that our MBA programs don't teach kids to be
entrepreneurs.
Everything else in the world looks at
entrepreneurs
and says we're bad people.
Both my grandfathers and my dad were
entrepreneurs.
But kids could be
entrepreneurs
as well.
Sorry,
entrepreneurs
aren't students.
You know, we teach our kids and we buy them games, but why don't we get them games, if they're entrepreneurial kids, that nurture the traits you need to be
entrepreneurs?
That's wrong, for me, if you want to raise
entrepreneurs.
So if you look, as I did, through this tour, and by looking at about a hundred case studies of different social
entrepreneurs
working in these very extreme conditions, look at the recipes that they come up with for learning, they look nothing like school.
We cannot give the data free to the students, free to the
entrepreneurs
of the world."
I think the opportunity is that we could shift some of these 21 billion dollars of subsidies that governments are spending on the current electricity system and we could promote R&D here in Africa to create some of these products, to be some of these entrepreneurs, and make this happen.
We're trying to turn them into barefoot entrepreneurs, little business people.
And they decided in 1990 that they wanted to start training the local entrepreneurs, giving them small loans.
They set them up as what they called micro-distribution centers, and those local
entrepreneurs
then hire sales people, who go out with bicycles and pushcarts and wheelbarrows to sell the product.
He was talking about strong, smart, hardworking
entrepreneurs
who woke up every day and were doing things to make their lives and their family's lives better.
For the first time, actually, in a long time I wanted to meet those individuals, I wanted to meet these entrepreneurs, and see for myself what their lives were actually about.
So I spent three months in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania interviewing
entrepreneurs
that had received 100 dollars to start or grow a business.
And over the next six months, a beautiful thing happened; the
entrepreneurs
received the money, they were paid, and their businesses, in fact, grew, and they were able to support themselves and change the trajectory of their lives.
And then third, from what I've heard from the
entrepreneurs
I've gotten to know, when all else is equal, given the option to have just money to do what you need to do, or money plus the support and encouragement of a global community, people choose the community plus the money.
I see
entrepreneurs
everywhere now, now that I'm tuned into this.
So to harness the power of these supportive communities in a new way and to allow
entrepreneurs
to decide for themselves exactly what that financial exchange should look like, exactly what fits them and the people around them, this week actually, we're quietly doing a launch of Profounder, which is a crowd funding platform for small businesses to raise what they need through investments from their friends and family.
And we allow
entrepreneurs
to share a percentage of their revenues.
Whether worn by refugees or world-changing entrepreneurs, when people are allowed the freedom to present themselves in a manner that celebrates their own unique identities, a magical thing happens.
Liberalizing the procedures for corporate registration and licensing, and limiting inspections, improved the climate for small businesses and
entrepreneurs.
Aside from the relatively small middle class and the even smaller business and intellectual elite, most Russians neither take risks to become
entrepreneurs
nor favor economic and political liberalization.
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