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Viewpoint: Venture Financing For The Bottom 99.98% Of The Pyramid… And When You Don’t Know Where You Rank
This top-down view of the venture capitalist (VC) works for about 20/100,000 entrepreneurs. But even these 20 could keep control of the venture and of the wealth created by delaying VC – and by letting the VCs come to them, as Jan Koum of WhatsApp did.
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- Investing
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Storytelling as a Strategy: What Entrepreneurs Can Gain from Crafting a Compelling Narrative
As Steven Spielberg once said, cinema’s power of persuasion is shown by getting “everybody to clap at the same time.” Likewise, successful entrepreneurs must also tell stories with persuasion and purpose, says Ami Dalal at FINCA Ventures. She explores how effective storytelling can help an enterprise build its brand and attract investors, customers and talent, and shares two essential approaches to help early-stage companies craft compelling narratives.
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- Energy, Investing, Social Enterprise, WASH
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Europe Leads Institutional Investors’ Embrace of ESG
Craig Phillips, head of CoreData Research International, said in a statement that while institutional investors increasingly incorporate ESG considerations in their investment processes, "many are at the first level of adoption" and may be restricted by a reliance on in-house capabilities and resources.
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- Investing
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- Europe & Eurasia
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- ESG, impact investing
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Does Social Impact Investing Work In Crypto?
The crypto and blockchain sector offers a number of ethical investment choices.
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- Investing
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Do ‘S’ and ‘G’ Really Drive Returns? Investors Lack Confidence in Criteria
While there is growing public awareness around climate change, resource scarcity, social injustice and global population growth, investors have become increasingly focused on only one of the three key criteria attached to socially responsible investing.
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- Environment, Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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Viewpoint: Sustainable Investing Turns Out Not To Be As Popular As The Hype
Millennials are values-driven, environmentally conscious and financially savvy, we are frequently told. And yet a host of recent studies show that millennial money does not always follow their mouths.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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UBS Invests $225M in KKR Global Impact
The UBS fund-raising, from its global private client base, nudges the global wealth management firm closer to a commitment to raise US$5 billion within five years to address the United Nations’ sustainable development goals.
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- Investing
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BlackRock in Amazon: ‘World’s Largest Investor in Deforestation’
Of the 167 deforestation-risk companies identified by the researchers, BlackRock held shares in 61 of them - valued at $1.5bn by the end of last year.
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- Environment, Investing
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- impact investing
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