Micro-lending
Micro-lending program
Over several months Georgia Southern University’s Center for Entrepreneurial Learning and Leadership has been exploring the development of a micro-lending program; especially how such a program might work at a University. The focus has been to establish a micro-lending fund for entrepreneurs (both student, graduate and local) at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro. The concept […]
The State of the Union and Entrepreneurship
Lee Iacocca who revived Chrysler in the 1980s once said “Why is our free-enterprise system so strong?- Not because it stands still, frozen in the past, but because it has always adapted to changing realities”. This captured the moment of the 2010 State of the Union. In the midst of a new political climate following […]
Micro-lending for a Brighter Future
A confluence of events has led me to my focus for this column. Firstly, I have been frustrated for years with the difficulty that students and recent graduates have in raising small amounts of money to start entrepreneurial businesses both in the United Kingdom and now in the US. Lack of credit history (or lack […]