Insights

Early-stage female entrepreneurs

The funding gap

Female entrepreneurs, globally, receive less funding than their male counterparts. Why? What's behind this discrepancy? Find out what action can be taken to close the gap between investors and female entrepreneurs.

Personal planning for start-up founders 

So much time and effort is spent growing the business and preparing for a liquidity event that the founder’s personal planning often takes a back seat. This is unfortunate. While fortunes can be made through owning a single business, they can also be lost. By planning for the personal side of a liquidity event, both before and after the transaction, a start-up founder can help mitigate risks associated with a founder’s equity, and set the stage for personal financial success. As they say, “failing to plan is planning to fail.”

Published in and for the US. 

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UBS Entrepreneur Compass

As an entrepreneur, it is natural that problem solving takes up your every day, leaving little time for strategic thinking. We canvassed entrepreneurs, as well as other thought leaders and industry experts to discover the five major strategic challenges that will influence businesses across all sectors in the decade ahead. Addressing these challenges properly should sharpen your competitiveness, fuel your growth, and allow you to meet and exceed stakeholders’ requirements.

Whether alone or in combination, these challenges will affect your business and require your attention, strategic foresight, and decisive action. You will need to develop strategies for addressing them.

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