So in September he started a campaign at Kickstarter.com to raise start-up financing for the documentary.
In America, for example, the most common way for an entrepreneur to raise start-up capital is by mortgaging the family home.In Africa, this is much harder.
Californian bioscientists with bright ideas have long found it easy to raise start-up capital; French and German financiers were slower to spot the potential rewards of biotech.
These companies also say they would not even exist if they had sought to raise start-up money in the countries where their customers live and work.
Besides all the technical skills they needed to research their projects, build a website, raise start-up funds and so on, I taught them the inner skills that are vital in really transforming the world: skills to build trust in their teams, resolve conflict quickly and effectively, and speak truth to power.
Like any entrepreneurial endeavor, your laboratory must raise start-up money and establish and maintain a sound, sustainable revenue stream.
There are a few ways for a new company to avoid the bank and raise start-up capital without hassling friends and family for money.
Besides all the technical skills they needed -- to research their projects, build a website, raise start-up funds -- they learned the inner skills that are vital in really transforming the world: skills to build trust in their teams, to resolve conflict quickly and effectively, to speak truth to power.
We have to raise starting salaries for teachers based on average salaries of those who enter the workforce with a bachelor's degree.
To entice them to join their firms, law firms will have to raise starting salaries to unprecedented heights, creating a market reversal of epic proportions.
