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Social Capital Markets 09: Towards Triple Impact
While SoCap involves a lot of investment lingo and a room full of venture funds and other players with large amounts of capital, a breakout session on "Towards Triple Impact: Sustainable Ventures in Developing Countries" sought to bring together a panel of developing country entrepreneurs.
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Social Capital Markets 09: Metastasizing Metrics
It was clear statistics, data, and metrics - in this context to measure, report, and track outputs and eventually outcomes of our work - were indeed sexy topics throughout the first two days of SoCap. Believe it. Nearly every panel in some way brought up the need to increase transparency and credibility...
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Social Capital Markets 09: Innovation in Africa
We often hear about the challenges facing Africa, but seldom do we hear about the innovation and creativity emerging throughout the continent. In an afternoon session entitled "Identifying Opportunities for Innovation in Africa", the panelists had a passionate and revealing discussion around the quantity of underexposed talent in Africa.
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Social Capital Markets 09: Social Entrepreneurship Ecosystem
Amidst the panels, deals and offline conversations of SoCap09, an interesting stat emerged: the 800+ participants represent some 32 countries, an increase from last year’s international participation. The assumption (or at least my inference) is that the language of entrepreneurship is universal, extending to social entrepreneurship as well.
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Social Capital Markets 09: The Social Capital Spectrum
How do a range of innovative investment models work, and work together, to tackle core issues that perpetuate poverty? This theme is at the heart of SOCAP 09 and the plenary "Showcasing the Social Capital Spectrum" provided insights from leading organizations exemplifying differing approaches.
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Social Capital Markets 09: Funding High Impact Ventures
One overarching theme of SOCAP09 has been the question: how can capital be appropriately allocated to the right people in the right format at the right time? Tuesday’s breakout session, Funding High Impact Ventures in Developing Markets, moderated by Pawan Mehra (founder of Intellecap) took a stab at answering this question.
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Social Capital Markets 2009: Disruptive Innovation Is not Just the Technology
Kevin Jones brought together an interesting group of speakers to the Disruptive Innovation panel on the first day of SOCAP 09 -- people who at first glance, would have a hard time finding common themes between them: Sangeeta Chowdhry from Acumen Fund, Sally Madsen from IDEO, Lucky Gunasekara from Frontline SMS and Mark Beckford from Ncomputing...
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Social Capital Markets 2009: Investing at the Intersection of Public Good & Market Discipline
How can a blend of capital and partnerships help address a market failure? During the session on "Investing at the Intersection of Public Good & Market Discipline: The Case of Agricultural Finance," a diverse set of panelists came together to explain the case of agricultural finance and Root Capital’s approach.
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