Articles by Pankaj Jain
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Guest Articles
Wednesday
March 14
2012So You Want to Start a Social Enterprise? 10 Legal Questions Founders Should Ask Themselves and Their Partners First
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. The conversations are inherently complex; so here 10 questions I would advise founders and partners ask one another before launching a social enterprise.
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- Social Enterprise
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Guest Articles
Monday
September 12
2011SOCAP11: Village Capital and the Value of peer-based Evaluation
What if microfinance and angel investing had a baby? Essentially, Village Capital is that offspring, using a peer-to-peer evaluation, learning and investment model where fellow entrepreneurs in the program decide who gets the allocated funding. From SOCAP11’s "People Powered Capital" we heard from several ventures using the Village Capital process.
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- Impact Assessment
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Thursday
September 1
2011SOCAP11 Preview: Legal Catch-Up With Social Innovation
Law is typically condemned to play catch-up with social innovation. Ask Jenny Kassan, the managing director of Katovich Law Group and founder of the Sustainable Economies Law Center, a non-profit organization that helps social entrepreneurs and mission-oriented community groups wade through laws that were not originally designed with them in mind.
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- Uncategorized
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Guest Articles
Monday
August 29
2011NextThought Monday Gearing Up for SOCAP11: Milaap’s Service-Focused Journey
Anoj Viswanathan is co-founder of Milaap, a pioneering online platform that enables people across the world to lend to India’s working poor. He drew inspiration from Lilla Watson?s quote, ?if you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together."
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- Finance
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- microfinance