My friends Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom, two of the smartest and most creative guys I know, have spent the last five years observing the phenomenon of decentralized networks and the “leaderless organization.” They’ve just come out with a book on this called the Starfish and the Spider that explores the lessons for business, policy […]

An Alliance mag article talks about how some true believers don’t want a potentially highly profitable startup that does a great amount of good to be considered a true social enterprise because the owners stand to get rich. “Justgiving, according to the experts, stumbles on a different hurdle – how the company is owned. The […]

In the broadest sense, the approval of Paromomycin IM Injection validates both our mission and model: to develop safe, effective, and affordable medicines for people with neglected diseases in the developing world.” That was the report from […]

My friend Bruce Boston has one of the most amazing brains I know, and when he devotes it to a subject he knows best, like the question of whether to launch a currency in a new online game, as he did for Jim Greer, of Kongregate, an online game startup recently, it’s an amazing thing […]

Some of the best thinking on the social capital markets is coming out of Oxford University, and their Said school. An example is this article by Rowena Young from the school’s Alliance magazine. “Is the creation of better functioning social capital markets set to be one of the big stories of social change in […]

My friend Thomas Madsen Mygdal is blogging about the dinner in his town next week where we will be ” talking about investment that serves good purposes, microfinance, social enterprises, social entrepreneurship - Thursday is your evening since we’ll have an open blogger dinner at 8pm @ The Laundromat Cafe“

While in Copenhagen I will be meeting with the founders of C4 a local (to Denmark) global electronics startup focused on creating sustainable businesses in Africa. Tim Vang one of two founders, said this in an email: “the ambitions are very high but so are the network/support around us >> and it is only going […]

“I could not let this pass by the xigi community although I know many of you have heard about the article published in the New York Times today. “…unlike most charities, this one will be for-profit, allowing it to fund start-up companies, form partnerships with venture capitalists and even lobby Congress. It will also pay […]

Yesterday, I was having a very random conversation with a stranger. She asked me what I did and where I worked as we were walking the same direction. Very chatty. When I tell people the mission and the goal of Good Capital and my role it is received really well. […]

Real Benefits, one of the companies we are talking to and investigating about becoming a potential investee in our GoodCap Social Enterprise Expansion Capital Fund (SEEF) just got a good chunk of money from a new initiative of the MacArthur FoundatFiguring out the ecosystem of potential co-investors is really complicated when some of the […]