Kevin and Tim have brought me on board the good ship Xigi.net as an “intern” to work with the community and blog. Blog about what, though? That is a question I likely won’t answer until I figure it out for myself through a system of trial and error.

At Kevin’s suggestion, I’ve subscribed to Google News […]

Segeni of Mamamike’s responded a couple of hours later with this:”That is excellent! Please let me know if the vision expressed in our” And here’s my response to him: The simple answer is that a vision expressed within a concept plan is not something that is ready for investment by our Goodcap fund. But it […]

You have to use more senstivitiy to establish your credentials in this blended value space than in traditional business. For instance, in my continuing dialogue with Segeni N’getheni, founder of Mamamike’s, a startup, in the remittance space he said he thought Goodcap and xigi were “great ideas.” Segeni met me at the Reuters Digital Vision Fellowship […]

I’m using a story telling technique that looks like a cross section of an onion in explaining the change we want to make in the world with our social enterprise fund. I lead them from something they know about in the investing world (one side of the onion) to an example of something in […]

If you were to find the gnome that turns the crank to churn out our myth of money into the popular consciousness, you would find a wizened, churlish, selfish little man in a dark windowless room. That’s the fairy tale take on the semiotic task we are about; changing the hidden assumptions by which people […]

As we ready our xigi platform to open to our core beta group next week (assuming all the database bugs are fixed by then) we are also working on intro page language to explain various parts of the site, such as xigiDiscovery.

Here was my first pass at an explanation of that simulation tool, […]

Here is why the open source community, movement, culture, will be one of our biggest market segments for investment in the good capital market. They have seen past scarcity; they know sharing and abundance works for all, including making money.

Everybody wants us to win, here at xigi and at Goodcap. It’s just up to us to find out which reason they have. Talking to my old business partner Mitch Tuchman, with whom I raised a $30 million technology focused venture fund back in the dot com days, he liked our fund, but wasn’t […]

I’m having breakfast next week with Clay Jones, the ceo of a new startup green bank that has some super heavy hitters among its backers. He’s a friend of a couple of friends and business associates, and I want to learn more about his operation and tell him about Goodcap and our social venture fund. […]

The Enron verdict came down and of course the Times showed them in a hall of shame that included Bernie Ebbers, of Worldcom. I knew him well back in Mississippi, we liked each other and I admired greatly.

I was around as he grew the company from the struggling $200,000 revenue telcom reseller being mismanaged by […]