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NexThought Monday: Shape Up and Scale Up: The Value of Mentors for Guiding Impact Entrepreneurs (Part 1)
July 31, 2012 Editor 0
SMEs in emerging economies face significant challenges to their survival, and a large majority fail within the first few years of operation. This high failure rate is largely the result of a weak entrepreneurial support infrastructure leading to a deficiency in business skills, a lack of access to capital, and markets and policy barriers which increase the cost of doing business, forcing many companies out of the market.
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