A recent article reminded me that an idea that becomes a social enterprise (or a regular start-up) is often rooted in problems that the founder has seen or experienced first-hand. Specifically, I ran across an article titled “The Vision Thing,” a profile of the social enterprise VisionSpring in Entrepreneur magazine’s March 2010 issue. In the [...]
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Eureka Moments: Realizing How to Meet a Need
February 26th, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, socent
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VC and Entrepreneur Demographic Disparities
December 3rd, 2009 · View Comments · VC, socent
…………… In early October, Jeff Bussgang of Flybridge Capital Partners wrote about the VC gender gap in the provocatively-titled “Are VCs Sexist?”, where he talked about only 5-10% of the VC industry being female, and only 25% of VC partnerships having a single woman partner. As a result, these barriers to these barriers to the [...]
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