AllWorld Network Overview

EXPANDING THE WORLD’S ENTREPRENEURIAL ECONOMY

AllWorld Network was established in 2007 by Deirdre M. Coyle, Jr., Anne Habiby and Professor Michael E. Porter of the Harvard Business School, after many years of promoting entrepreneurship in the developed and developing worlds.  Recognizing that entrepreneurship drives economic growth and innovation, AllWorld’s mission is to find and advance ALL the growth entrepreneurs of the emerging world by 2015.  

AllWorld does this by creating Fast Growth rankings – the Africa 500, Arabia 500, Asia 500, Eurasia 500 and Latin America 500.

Each of the hundreds of entrepreneurs the AllWorld team has worked with from America’s inner cities to Saudi Arabia is a story of courage, taking on economic and social challenges to create something that did not exist.  AllWorld’s goal is to give them the visibility and leadership skills to take their companies and their countries to the next level.

The 500s establish a definitive record of the fastest growing, most dynamic entrepreneurs in the region. By shining a light on these emerging business leaders, the 500 lists facilitate access to capital, open new markets for entrepreneurs, provide real time feedback to policy makers, and put momentum behind these entrepreneurs as they create the next economy for their countries.

A History of Success
The AllWorld Network story began in 1999, when Coyle, Habiby and Professor Porter launched the Inner City 100 in partnership with Inc. Magazine. Designed to uncover successful entrepreneurs in America's economically distressed inner cities, the Inner City 100 ranked qualifying companies by their revenue growth over five years.  When the first rankings were published in 1998, they captured national headlines and generated new visibility, investment interest, and growth opportunities for the winning companies.

The annual Inner City 100 quickly became an American phenomenon -- spurring a new wave of inner-city investment and economic development, creating thousands of new jobs and championing a new generation of business leaders. The concept was exported successfully to Britain with the UK 100 in 2000.      

Going Global in the Emerging World
In 2008 at the invitation of the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority’s (SAGIA) National Competitiveness Center, AllWorld launched the Saudi Fast Growth 100 with Al-Watan Newspaper, and supported by the National Commercial Bank, Siraj Capital and Sukoon International. Since then, the Saudi Fast Growth 100 has become an eagerly-anticipated annual event attracting leaders from across the Kingdom and world.

Encouraged by the success of the Saudi 100. AllWorld Network is now taking this model global by creating the Africa 500, Arabia 500, Latin America 500, Asia 500 and Eurasia 500.  The challenge for emerging countries is that their growth companies stall at a small size because they are not known.  As a result, they do not have access to the growth capital, talent and opportunities their US and European counterparts have.

The 500s are designed to address the critical challenge of scaling growth and job creation in the emerging world by putting the best entrepreneurs on the global radar screen.

Credentialing – The Real Deal
Companies that achieve AllWorld ranking are "credentialed" as the real deal -- because each company that applies is subjected to a thorough vetting process that requires the submission of audited financial statements and the completion of a 20-question survey. An important benefit of the application process is that it is a force for transparency; this enables AllWorld to provide countries with real-time information on investment and policy strategies.

Creating the Next 1 Million Jobs
AllWorld’s research indicates there are approximately 2,500 existing growth companies in the emerging world that could fuel economic progress in the next five years.   With market visibility, these companies of 25 to 200 employees can scale up, accelerating critical job creation and innovation, and in turn, motivating other growth entrepreneurs.  By being in the global market place, we believe these 2,500 companies can create the next 1 million jobs.

AllWorldXchange – The Global Network
The companies that achieve AllWorld ranking have much to gain from their peers around the world.  AllWorld Network is creating an exclusive G2G (Growth-to-Growth) for the winners -- the AllWorldXchange.  

This will be a new common market with unlimited growth potential.

In one click, AllWorld companies go “allworld,” to discover new ideas, and new partners, customers and investors.  They can find out what’s happening around the world before others do, enter new markets with partners who have resources on the ground, and co-invest in each other’s companies.  AllWorldXchange is the G2G trading and investment zone of unlimited potential.