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Nov 8, 2017 |
Africa, Fledglings
In rural Ghana, women typically can’t own their own land or do their own farming. Instead, they can only help their husbands, who then let their wives pick the shea nuts...
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Oct 31, 2017 |
Africa, Europe, Fledglings
A doctor in Nigeria decides he could make more impact growing chickens. Not just growing them one by one or 1,000 by 1,000, but by launching a company where middle-class...
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Oct 30, 2017 |
Conscious
Given the variety of the fledglings, Fledge’s challenge is how to measure their collective impact. This is a long-standing industry debate, how to measure the impact of a...
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Oct 25, 2017 |
Fledglings, Seattle
Congratulations to BridgeCare Finance, the Best For-Profit Pitch at SVP Fast Pitch Seattle 2017. Congratulations 2017 Winners! Meet the 2017 Finalists: BridgeCare Finance ...
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Oct 17, 2017 |
Africa, Asia, Conscious, Europe, Fledglings
Fledge begins again! 10 intense weeks for seven new fledglings. This time in a brand new city, Barcelona. We’re excited to have a cohort filled mostly with West African...
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Oct 17, 2017 |
Africa, Fledglings, Investment
Back in March, ImpactAlpha shared the news that Ziweto Enterprise purchased its distributor, Alfa Medics. The rest of the story is quite telling about African startup economics....
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Oct 9, 2017 |
Conscious, Interviews/Articles, Startup Ecoystem
My friend Ross Baird over at Village Capital posted a great bit of advice for the “tech” crowd in TechCrunch today: Dear Silicon Valley, You used to be the envy of...
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Oct 2, 2017 |
Canada, Conscious, Startup Ecoystem, Startup Visa
The Global Impact Accelerator Program is the first accelerator helping global impact businesses move to Canada under its Startup-Visa Program. This is a comprehensive, 4-month...
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Sep 19, 2017 |
Africa, Fledglings, Investment
The idea of having a whole family of seed funds rather than one big pool of capital continues to resonate with investors and serve the needs of entrepreneurs. Case in point, the...
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Sep 16, 2017 |
Advice
Being an entrepreneur is hard. The ups and down of startup life are far larger and stronger than most jobs. Working with entrepreneurs isn’t much better, as the empathy...
