Why We Invested: NowFloats

For small businesses, success or failure often depends less on finding customers than making sure customers can find you. The Internet has revolutionized this “push vs. pull” dynamic, but in markets like India, where digital adoption isn’t yet universal, being discovered can still…

Social Entrepreneurship: 60’s Fail 2.0 or Sustainable Revolution?

The 1960’s saw the birth of a counter culture which spawned the modern environmental movement and helped catalyze the civil rights movement. Yet despite slogans of “make love not war” and “back to the land” society…

This quote gets at one of the fundamental failures of the nonprofit system. Institutional funders perceived need for anchor organizations to act as safe hands for their capital.

“If we had more carpenters,” says Jan Masaoka, “they would buy more hammers; they’d drive up demand. A carpenter-driven market would drive quality…

A confluence of impact and scale

I spent last week at the annual meeting of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), and I was struck by three trends that could take our sector to the next level.

The first is around taking impact seriously. The second is how different the impact measurement…

Opting Out: A Modest Proposal

I was speaking at Credit Suisse’s Annual gathering of Conservation Finance professionals in New York a few…