SME Challenges and Solutions for Start-up, Survival, and Growth: The Harsh Battle for Emerging Entrepreneurs

The purpose of this eBook is to provide struggling emerging entrepreneurs with strategies for survival and growth in light of unfriendly business, financial, political, economic, infrastructural, and technological environment faced by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in many parts of the world, especially in the developing world. This will hopefully reduce the failure rate and increase the many good contributions of SMEs worldwide. In 2030, 600 million jobs will be needed to absorb the growing global workforce, which makes SME development a high priority for many governments around the world (World Bank SME Finance - April 2019) .This eBook is suitable for SME entrepreneurs, development Agents, Funding Agents, NPOs, CBOs, Trainers, Coaches, and government organs dealing with SME development policies.