This past weekend was the second installment of the StartingBloc Institute for Social Innovation (held at NYU again), and it has been a great experience once again, especially as it relates to the refining of some of my previous thoughts regarding “social venture capital” and what value-add it has to the existing world of (mainly [...]
Entries from March 29th, 2010
The Value of the VC Model for Social Enterprises
March 29th, 2010 · View Comments · VC, socent
Tags:socent·social enterprise·social entrepreneurship·StartingBloc·VC·venture capital
What’s Next: 25 Big Ideas
March 23rd, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, socent
Recently, I’ve been doing a bit of writing in addition to the regular blogging that I do, as part of a project inspired by Seth Godin’s e-book “What Matters Now.” The book I’m contributing to is called “What’s Next: Big Ideas from 25 Gen-Yers Under 25” and will feature 25 authors under the age of [...]
Tags:big ideas·e-book·fundraising·Kickstarter·Seth Godin·What Matters Now·What's Next
A New Favorite Website for Dealhunters
March 15th, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, tech
Are you one of those people that checks all those deal-a-day websites like Groupon or LivingSocial? Do you like knowing about all the latest sample sales and restaurant deals in your city? At the end of the day, do you like saving money. If you answered “yes” to any of the above, you should check [...]
Tags:daily deals·Groupon·LivingSocial·Perch·shopping·Spotter·Yipit
Send MESS Express to the Unreasonable Institute!
March 10th, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, VC, socent
This past weekend at the StartingBloc Institute for Social Innovation, I met Matt Kochman, who is the founder of a social venture start-up called M.E.S.S. Express, or “Moving Every Student Safely.” Started at Cornell, where Kochman used to be a student, M.E.S.S. Express is a company whose goal is to provide prepaid transportation plans for [...]
Tags:Matt Kochman·MESS Express·socent·social entrepreneurship·StartingBloc·Unreasonable Institute
StartingBloc Insights into Socent and Social VC
March 8th, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, VC, nextNY, socent
This past weekend, I had the privilege to attend the StartingBloc Institute for Social Innovation conference in New York as a StartingBloc Fellow for 2010. The conference will continue on March 27th and conclude on the 28th, but already it’s been hugely insightful for me as someone interested in the intersection of social entrepreneurship and [...]
Tags:Change.org·City Light Capital·Good Capital·Josh Cohen·Kevin Doyle·nathaniel Whittemore·socent·social entrepreneurship·social venture capital·StartingBloc
Launching… PennLaunch!
March 2nd, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, VC, tech
One of the recurring themes in the start-up world is the importance of having a solid, supportive entrepreneurial ecosystem. This includes not only the venture capital itself, but also mentoring, banking and legal advisors, and forums for exchanging information, contacts, and advice. Just this week, I found that the University of Pennsylvania, my alma mater, [...]
Tags:ecosystem·entrepreneur·Penn·Penn Launch·PennLaunch·University of Pennsylvania·Wharton
