Increasing Access to Funding Business Growth for Women
Dr. Helen Emore
Director & Board-Level Business Analyst | Venture Builder | 20+years Global Experience | Developing Women & Youth Entrepreneurship | MD, Scientia Partners Innovation Hub | Adjunct, Pan Atlantic University
Can we improve access to funding for you as a female entrepreneur? Yes we can.
If you are building a sustainable venture that's solving real problems, then you are part of those that will lead the charge in rebuilding Africa from the ruins of underdevelopment.
For you to get equity investment, then you need to be running a sustainable business. A business that is providing solutions that customers are willing to pay for over and over.
You need to be trading profitably. You should have a system that captures your expenses, sales and profits/losses.
You need to know your customers and how they engage your offering. What is their journey map? How do they know about your product? How do they buy it?
Do you have a gameplan for today and tomorrow? Do you have a strategy? What do you want the business to look like in a few years?
You have to be running the business properly if you want stakeholders to invest their resources in you!
Investment comes with other resources such as goodwill and leveraging networks.
Just because there is advocacy for increased funding to women does not mean there should be no due diligence before making that investment.
It's time for you as a female entrepreneur to step up and open yourself to investment and partnerships. It's not charity, it's not grants, it's full time business.
If you want to be part of the Women who will control half of world's wealth in 5years, then you should up your game as an entrepreneur and investor!
Are you investment ready?
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