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April, 2008



The downside of metrics

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The worst news from the Skoll World Forum was from another investor. They were trying to co-invest with a venture philanthropy fund, but found two significant barriers; one that fund does not co-invest, nor release its due diligence reports […]


My world tour

Just back from the Skoll World Forum, which was as great in the hallways as ever and quite a bit better in its explicit content. People who wanted to talk about the capital to make social enterprise grow had to create their own venues. And in the next three weeks I fly to Chicago […]


World Clock: a dashboard for the Planet

You can see the rate of population growth, new cases of disease, injury, death, biodiversity loss, marriage and divorce…. It’s like a (rather depressing) impact dashboard for the Planet!