Crowdfunding: Seeing over the crowd
Charles Sidman reviews the salient success of Crowdfunding to date, and explores some of its remaining uncertainties, risks, and opportunities for improvement. CHARLES SIDMAN (MBA, PHD) Managing Partner of ECS Capital Partners and Angels Crowdfunding - which is based on new sets of rules in various countries, and allows entrepreneurial companies to raise funds from a larger number and/or expanded set...
The Davos of the Global Early Stage Investment Community
Revered ecosystem thought-leader and President of the European Trade Association for Business Angels (EBAN), Candace Johnson, reflects on WBAF’s successful journey since 2015, and looks toward a bright future for this global Angel Investor community. As we prepare to come to this year’s WBAF World Congress 2018, I think back to all of the wonderful Forums from the last three...
Realities of Female
ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN NORTH AFRICA A frank, powerful canvassing of the reality of being a North African woman entrepreneur; plus some poignant remedial solutions. DOUJA GHARBI President, Entrepreneurship Center and Endogenous Development Women represent a considerable pool of untapped potential for North African economies. Whilst comprising over 50% of the population and some 47% of the education enrollment figures, women make up only...
Developing Entrepreneurs Who Will Change the World
UNIDO-ITPO Bahrain Head, Dr Hashim S Hussein explains how his organisation plans to help produce the world’s next generation of high-impact entrepreneurs. The UNIDO ITPO Bahrain Office was established in 1996 to enhance industrial partnerships and cooperation - between enterprises in the Kingdom and other nations - by facilitating the mobilisation of foreign and domestic investments. As industries throughout the world...
Ten Truths About Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
Norris Krueger PhD, Senior Subject Matter Expert at OECD/EU distills the early-stage ecosystem down into ten research-backed takeaways; and outlines their implications for angel investors. 1 PRACTITIONER RESEARCH is ahead of academics in many ways (not just Kauffman, think Brad Feld). Two of my go-to gurus - Erik Pages and Don Macke - both have hoards of good research and...
Developing India through rural entrepreneurship: Human United Mission
Developing India through rural entrepreneurship: A glimpse of the entrepreneurial development agenda being driven by HUM; catalysing a paradigm shift in India’s rural midset. India has a population of over 1.35 billion people of whom some 70% wholly depend on the agricultural sector or allied activities. The poor population is predominantly settled in the remote villages where they carry out subsistence...
Spread Your Wings in Asia
Angel Financing in Asia Pacific is the first book to take a telescope, and then a microscope, to Angel investing in Asia. Author John Y. Lo, an experienced Hong Kong lawyer and Angel Investor, looks at Asia Pacific and its place in the global Angel Investing scene, and then looks at major markets in the region. His Asia stretches...
Financial Advice R-Evolution
FinTech author Paolo Sironi discusses how technology and regulation will team up to radically change banks’ business models. PAOLO SIRONI FinTech Thought Leader for IBM Watson Financial Services Regulation is a fundamental engine for innovation in Financial Services. Regulation not only creates the incentive for traditional institutions to invest and transform their business model through technology, but it also creates the...
High Impact Micro Angels Bridging Gaps
The time is ripe for new vehicles that can increase the impact of micro-investing, where small investors can reap large gains. Prof Ketikidis and Adriane Thrash explain. PROF. PANAYIOTIS H. KETIKIDIS Chairman, South East European Research Centre ADRIANE THRASH Co-Founder, Innovation Farm In more advanced ecosystems, Angel Investors are a well-developed link in the startup finance chain. But in early-stage ecosystems, where the conditions...
President Trump Chooses India
India’s first Global Entrepreneurship Summit sets the scene for movers and shakers in 2018. DR NIKHIL AGARWAL Convener of IndiaGlobal November 2017 saw the first Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) hosted by the Trump administration find a new home in Hyderabad, India; a vibrant tech town with hundreds of years of history. GES is organised annually, and is jointly hosted by the US...
