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Avon in Uganda? How microfranchises create small, low-risk jobs
May 20, 2013 Editor 0
A door-to-door sales company in Uganda is giving a shot at entrepreneurship to would-be entrepreneurs who don’t want to risk everything. In the developing world, your typical entrepreneur isn’t like Warren Buffet or Sir Richard Branson, says Cecilia Zevallos of SAB Miller. Zevallos’s experience in Latin America has shown her that most entrepreneurs either inherited […]
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Selling sisters
December 14, 2012 Editor 0
IN THE late 19th century “Avon ladies” started to knock on America’s doors to sell beauty products. In the early 21st century “phone ladies” began offering phone service to rural Bangladesh by renting out their mobile phone. Now a growing number of women entrepreneurs in poor countries are combining both distribution models to sell everything […]
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