Michael “Luni” Libes, founder of startup ‘conscious company’ incubator, Fledge, shares his thoughts on options that all businesses — large and small — have for how they operate. Is your business focused only on profit maximization with no regard for negative impacts, or do you have a mission built into your operating and cultural DNA?… Read more >
Tag: social enterprise
Video: Conscious Companies make strong profits and improve their communities
January 6, 2013 – Entrepreneur Info
Challenges and opportunities for hybrid organizations
May 29, 2012 – Entrepreneur Info, Investor Info
A growing number of the best entrepreneurs are choosing to create (for-profit) businesses (rather than non-profits) because they believe that they can realize more sustainable and scalable impact on those living at the base of the economic pyramid (BOP) Stanford Social Innovation Review has just published an article called “In Search of the Hybrid Ideal”… Read more >
Unitus Seed Fund: Harnessing Small Equity for Scale at the BoP
May 11, 2012 – Media Coverage
This interview with Dave Richards, Managing Director of Unitus Seed Fund, by Sriram Gutta was originally posted on NextBillion. I recently had the opportunity to interview Dave Richards, managing director of Unitus Seed Fund – a new seed stage venture fund investing in startups with high potential to improve the lives of many BoP families in India. Dave… Read more >
Unitus Seed Fund invests in Villgro Innovation Marketing
April 11, 2012 – BoP Rural Distribution, Investment
Unitus Seed Fund is excited to announce that we’ve made a seed investment in Villgro Innovation Marketing based in Chennai! This is our 4th seed investment in 2012. Villgro Innovation Marketing (VIM) is building an innovative last mile rural distribution business starting in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. They are focused on distributing… Read more >
Top 10 questions social enterprise founders should ask themselves
March 15, 2012 – Entrepreneur Info
Guest post by Pankaj Jain of Impact Law Ventures, our fantastic legal advisor. This article was originally posted on NextBillion.net As a corporate lawyer working at the intersection of start-up space and social enterprise sectors, I often find myself assisting co-founders in structuring relationships. When it comes to these founder partnerships or the much broader larger… Read more >
Great group of global social entrepreneurs gather in Seattle
March 5, 2012 – Update
I was really impressed with the group of young social entrepreneurs who participated in University of Washington’s Foster School of Business Global Social Entrepreneur Competition (GSEC) last week in Seattle. All of the team members are currently enrolled in higher education. Many of them are in graduate school. All of them are extremely passionate about building… Read more >