How do creative ambition, appropriate capital and a sustainable business model come together?
Building a creative enterprise requires more than producing excellent work. Jeff Schon brings the experience of developing Akili Network. Carol Ndirangu examines the institutional readiness and financing conditions that help an ambition become an enduring enterprise.
Jeff describes finding customers, validating demand and developing revenue streams alongside a commitment to children’s content. He distinguishes creating something worthwhile from building the conditions that allow the work to continue.
Carol explains the governance, evidence and decision-making that investors look for. Jeff’s search for funding illustrates why a promising business can still be approaching the wrong investor for its geography, purpose or stage.
An emerging business often carries costs that belong to the wider industry it depends on. Carol argues for distinguishing operating needs from longer-term ecosystem development, then matching each to an appropriate source of funding.
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