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Thursday, August 18, 2011
Venture Fund regulation in Nepal ?
I don't know if Securities Board of Nepal has hammer out any law/ regulation for alternative investments,which includes venture funds,private equity , hedge fund etc..... If and when they plan to do so ,I believe the regulation will look a lot like this ..... click here to read ....
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
It is not finance,stupid!
This summer after competing my curriculum practicum in Sri Lanka.I went home (Kathmandu,Nepal) for a month...I had plans to conduct a situation analysis on -possibilities of Impact Investment in Nepal ....In this process, I met with various bankers, entrepreneurs and many wanna be impact investors like yours truly.Thing I found very interesting is that securing capital is not the only objective or might not be the purpose of the social enterprise,when asking external guidance to run their business efficiently. Most of the people I met were wanting help on the operational side of the business.For example: Market linkage, book keeping , supply chain and inventory management,etc...
my experiences in Nepal contradicts the rhetoric that " lack of access to finance" in the biggest constraint for SMEs to scale up......Apparently, SME entrepreneurs are putting "Dead capital" to work ....
my experiences in Nepal contradicts the rhetoric that " lack of access to finance" in the biggest constraint for SMEs to scale up......Apparently, SME entrepreneurs are putting "Dead capital" to work ....
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