Sustainability: Not Just Fashionable
THOUGHTS POST SKOLL WORLD FORUM: When it comes to sustainability, one of the things that has always nagged me about companies that “go green” is that it typically just means…
Crowdfunding Capitalism: Likely to Keep Growing in 2013
By Brittany Koteles In 2012, crowdfunding platforms grew 81 percent, while venture capital investments fell for the first time in three years. While I’m not here to forecast the…
5 Talking Points Post Skoll World Forum
by Mark Clayton Hand The Skoll World Forum, the world’s glitziest talking shop on social entrepreneurship and impact investing, is full of conversations. Here are four topics receiving major…
Stop Developing Software: “Stop Reinventing the Flat Tire”
Recently Priya Jaisinghani, Teressa Trusty, and I brought together a few folks to have an informal Technology Salon around the pertinent question of how can the development community get…
Sheryl Sandberg: What do you think?
Sheryl Sandberg’s latest book “Lean In” has been much talked about – literally. It’s been the feature of a NPR podcast, a CBS 60 Minutes episode, and an Oprah…
The Yellow Brick Road to the Impact Economy
By David Bank, Impact IQ I’m from San Francisco, not Kansas, but when I stepped off the elevator at the Lexington Avenue headquarters of Bloomberg LP, it felt like…
Youth Unemployment at the World Economic Forum: the Unrecruitment Mission
In a speech at the World Economic Forum on the 21st of January, the Young Global Leader Rajeeb Dey and CEO of Enternships.com, and UK-based social enterprise for job placement,…
mHealth Still Needs a Residence, Even in Rural India
by Ben Thurman Careering down the serpentine road from Araku to Visakhapatnam, in the Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh – one eye on an ailing girlfriend in the back seat…
To Grow, Social Enterprises Must Play by Business Rules
This is a guest post by Alan Hirzel, a trustee of The Social Business Trust and a partner in the London office of Bain & Company. We can’t ask social enterprises to…
The Four Challenges of Running a Social Enterprise in India: Villgro’s Uniphore Explains
Caitlin Marinelli of Uniphore breaks down the challenges of running a social enterprise in India. Uniphore designs and delivers mobile solutions for businesses using Multilingual Speech Recognition and Voice Biometrics. Photographed…
Reflections from the 2012 mHealth Summit for Smarter Public Health
Guest post by Nick Martin, CEO of TechChange, a social enterprise developing technology education for development and social impact. Four thousand attendees. Three days. Three challenges. One global network solution….
Simplifying the Legalities: myRight
(Photo Courtesy of Subject) This guest post is by Michael Niu, co-founder of legal tech startup, myRight. According to the Court Statistics Project, there were over 106 million incoming state…
OpEd: Mentoring Global Startups in Silicon Valley
Farmers of IDE-India testing out new agricultural technologies. (Photo Courtesy of IDE) From August 12 to 24, a group of 19 social entrepreneurs from all over the world is in…
OpEd: Connected but Neglected in Los Angeles
In an effort to hear more directly from the source, we’re asking entrepreneurs to give their take on starting a business in varying cities, targeting different kinds of marginalized…
Analysis: Why South Asia has Transformed into a Social Enterprise Hub
By Nidhi Chaudhary There are hubs for social entrepreneurship around the world—from San Francisco to the United Kingdom to Nairobi to Mexico City. No one can deny that India has…
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