Tag: ideas
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Apply: $100,000 Cartier Women’s Initiative Award

Since 2006, the Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards has supported over 100 female entrepreneurs worldwide. Each year, 18 finalists are selected, 6 of whom will become Laureates. The Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards is looking for committed female entrepreneurs heading initiatives with the potential to grow significantly in the years to come. It is a unique opportunity…
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Apply for the $100,000 Cartier Women’s Initiative Award

Since 2006, the Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards has supported over 100 female entrepreneurs worldwide. Each year, 18 finalists are selected, 6 of whom will become Laureates. The Cartier Women’s Initiative Award offers funding, coaching, networking opportunities, and exposure. It is a unique opportunity for early phase women entrepreneurs to take their companies to the next…
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How I Turned My Side Hustle Into a Sustainable Business

Swish Ideas began as a side hustle with the aim to modernize the gifts and souvenirs distributed at events in Nigeria. My goal was to make these items functional thereby adding to the joy the event brings to its audience. In turn, event hosts get significant value for their money and guests remember the event. The…
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Win $20,000: Cartier Women’s Initiative Award

Since 2006, the Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards has supported over a 100 female entrepreneurs worldwide. Each year, 18 finalists are selected, 6 of whom will become Laureates. The Cartier Women’s Initiative Award offers funding, coaching, networking opportunities, and exposure. It is a unique opportunity for early phase women entrepreneurs to take their companies to the next level.…
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Apply: Single Board Challenge

The ITU Telecom World Young Innovators Competition and Intel are looking for entrepreneurs with innovative ideas to apply the latest generation of single board computers and controllers to social causes. These solutions can be based on tools such as Intel Edison and Intel Galileo, applied in the form of wearables, embedded devices, Internet of Things…
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Innovation and Health: Grand Challenge to Help Health Care Workers Fight Ebola
The Grand Challenge for Development aims to generate pioneering solutions to help healthcare workers provide better care in the midst of the Ebola epidemic. This challenge will unite the global community in the quest for ingenious ideas that deliver practical and cost-effective innovations in a matter of months. USAID needs new ideas to help ensure that…
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Help Change the Future of Electricity
Register to compete for $1 million and help change the future of electricity. The goal: design and build a kW-scale inverter with the highest power density (at least 50 Watts per cubic inch). Inverters are the essential boxes that take direct current from devices such as solar panels and batteries and turn it into alternating…
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Apply: Cartier Women’s Initiative Award
The Cartier Women’s Initiative Award offers funding, coaching, networking opportunities and exposure. It is a unique opportunity for early-phase women entrepreneurs to take their companies to the next level. The Award is designed to maximize the learning experience for candidates, finalists and laureates. The Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards offers one-to-one personalized business coaching for the…
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Five Useful Tips to Survive the Strike

Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Anakle Intelligent Media Solutions, Editi Effiong, gives useful tips to entrepreneurs and businesses in Nigeria to survive the strike. Editi provides the following solutions – keep in mind that what works for his business, an online advertising/social media marketing company may not work for others. I. Set up Internet…