Pitching for funding can be an intimidating business, especially when you are a young woman at a testosterone-fuelled event for startups and your idea is a social enterprise to help save orangutans in Borneo. When a fellow entrepreneur tried to impress the founder of My Green World, Natalie Kyriacou, by handing her his shiny business card – which he insisted was gold-plated – she knew there had to be another way. “I took myself out…
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