Articles by Jed Emerson
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Monday
December 9
2013NexThought Monday 12/9/13: Jed Emerson on creating a supportive environment for seed stage impact ventures
Countless early stage entrepreneurs are developing innovative solutions to market problems. Yet investors are inherently looking to manage risks. This difference in perspective is at the heart of a persistent gap in seed stage funding for social entrepreneurs. But as impact investing guru Jed Emerson explains, there is great investment opportunity in this gap—and the fragmented seed stage impact investing ecosystem is ripe for innovation.
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- Entrepreneurship
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Friday
October 26
2012Advancing Impact Investing Platforms… Promise and Peril!: We can’t always assume all investment strategies must scale
Impact Investing is not a single hammer looking for all the nails in the world—it is a diverse and dynamic approach to creating innovative applications of capital in appropriate ways to maximize potential impact. While the promise of investment platforms is, uh, promising, it is important we not start our discussion with the assumption that all investment strategies must scale!
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- Entrepreneurship