Bruce Boston, one the community of xigi bloggers has started his own blog about QuidStreet, a startup which incorporates a lot of the new ways people are looking at capital that we are experimenting with and promoting here. Bruce is a friend and a super smart guy, and he’s doing an interesting walkabout; posting on […]

Seven stages of market maturation, from Glenn Yago from Milken Institute…

1 structural change — demand for capital

2 uniform commodity/security standards

3 legal instrument providing evidence of ownership

4 informal spot and fwd markets

5 emergence of exchanges

6 organized futures and options markets

7 proliferation of OTC markets, deconstruction

Most previous efforts have skipped steps 2-3-4…and I’ve been struck as I’ve […]

How do we simultaneously maintain a high standard of living in the developed world while contributing to rising prosperity abroad? Andrew Leonard on Joseph Stiglitz in the Nation link

Got a notice of a new

A new adaptation of the centuries-old tradition of mutual aid societies shows promise of improving access to healthcare and reducing unnecessary maternal and infant deaths in developing nations.Why Mutual Health Organizations are Making a Difference

More than half a million women worldwide die from pregnancy-related causes each year, and most of those deaths are preventable, even […]

Jim Fruchterman at the Skoll World Forum The different social entrepreneurs have started showing up: we have a day of meetings before the main Skoll Forum starts. There are sixteen social entrepreneur award winners this year: three are past Skoll grantees, but this is our first chance to be on stage for the big award ceremony. […]

So this is just to celebrate, really, an online collaboration process with a number of the xigi participants that happened a couple of days ago, that keeps running through my brain. It wasn’t really out of the ordinary, for interactions these days, but it really struck me as indicative of some of the dynamics […]

The Al Gore, David Blood rant in the Wall Street Journal’s opinion page has some people raving, some people raging. Here’s a link that’s outside of the WSJ subscription firewall. Environmental Economics: Capitalism and Sustainability “Capitalism and sustainability are deeply and increasingly interrelated. After all, our economic activity is based on the use of natural and […]

Stanford’s Social Innovation Review has a case study on a social enterprise that failed in the U.K. The fact that failure is being examined is good news; often the only diagnosis is how an enterprise didn’t meet the funding guidelines of a particular foundation. That was my experience as a member of the Social […]

A crucial innovation of our xigiDiscovery tool is that, when it’s presented correctly, and to the right audience (at this point the people who jump out of their seats are the intermediaries who work with high net worth individuals) is that it offers a spectrum of personas to potential investors; it puts them on the […]