If you’ve followed this blog for awhile (or just thought about this blog’s URL) you probably know that one of my passions is the intersection of investing and social impact. I’ve written at length about what I learned about for-profit social entrepreneurship from Nathaniel Whittemore and StartingBloc, new incubation initiatives like the Unreasonable Institute, why [...]
Entries Tagged as 'socent'
IGNIA, a Social VC Firm, Closes its First Fund
June 23rd, 2010 · View Comments · VC, socent
Tags:base of the pyramid·BoP·Ignia·impact investing·JP Morgan·Omidyar·rockefeller·social entrepreneurship·social VC·Soros·venture capital
Why U.S. Billionaires Should Create a Social PE Firm
June 18th, 2010 · View Comments · VC, socent
If you read CNN.com or the Wall Street Journal, you’ve likely run across a headline this week about Warren Buffet and Bill Gates (who have already given away a significant portion of their fortunes) issuing a challenge to the wealthiest individuals to do the same and give away 50% of their wealth. This challenge, called [...]
Tags:Berkshire Hathaway·Bill Gates·Gates Foundation·Giving Pledge·Melinda Gates·Microsoft·PE·private equity·social entrepreneurship·VC·venture capital·Warren Buffett
What’s Next Beta Launch
May 24th, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, socent
Remember that e-book I wrote about a couple months ago? The one titled “What’s Next: Big Ideas from 25 Gen-Yers Under 25”? Well, the beta of the e-book is out to the public! Here’s the blurb: “Inspired by Seth Godin’s What Matters Now, it showcases the stories & insights of 25 bright young voices from [...]
Help Change the World!
May 3rd, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, socent
…One step at a time! Here are projects from two of my friends that I want to profile for you guys today. They are helping to change the world land make it a better place, one step at a time. The 3:18 Movement The first one is The 3:18 Movement, which is an organization founded [...]
Tags:card·clean water·Jubilee Project·LifeWater·Mother's Day·Pepsi Refresh·refugees·The 3:18 Movement·Uganda
All Entrepreneurship is Social. Or is It?
April 12th, 2010 · View Comments · socent
In a recent article from Stanford Social Innovation Review, Carl Schram made the assertion that “All Entrepreneurship Is Social.” To wit: “Over the past decade or so, the term social entrepreneur has become a fashionable way of describing individuals and organizations that, in their attempts at large-scale change, blur the traditional boundaries between the for-profit [...]
Tags:Carl Schram·Chris Dixon·entrepreneurship·socent·social entrepreneurship·SSIR
A New Paradigm of Investing
April 8th, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, VC, socent
Just a few weeks ago, I received a call from a friend I met through StartingBloc, Kim Scheinberg. We had only briefly met before, so I was very honored to be on the receiving end of a phone call from her about a new project she was working on, one that was directly in the [...]
Tags:angel investing·Kim Scheinberg·Presumed Abundance·Rafe Furst·socent·social entrepreneurship·StartingBloc·venture capital
Kites From Skittles Wrappers? Meet TerraCycle!
April 5th, 2010 · View Comments · socent
During the StartingBloc Institute, one of the speakers we had the privilege of listening to was Tom Szaky, founder of TerraCycle. TerraCycle is a company that collects traditionally non-recyclable waste from people all across the country by paying a non-profit of the collecting person’s choice, 2 cents for each piece they collect and mail to [...]
Tags:Earth Day·recycling·StartingBloc·TerraCycle·Tom Szaky·trash·upcycling·Wal-Mart
