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 [...]
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A New Paradigm of Investing
April 8th, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, VC, socent
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
The Value of the VC Model for Social Enterprises
March 29th, 2010 · View Comments · VC, socent
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 [...]
Tags:socent·social enterprise·social entrepreneurship·StartingBloc·VC·venture capital
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
