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Jun 23, 2017 |
Advice, Conscious, Investment, Measuring Impact, Startup Ecoystem
Fledge is over five years old, and for that half decade and more the industry has been debating how to measure the impact of a company and a portfolio. Using the Pinchot Impact...
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May 4, 2017 |
Advice, Startup Ecoystem
Do accelerators really help is the second most asked question in the industry after how do I apply? That would seem an odd question almost twelve years after the birth of the...
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Apr 24, 2017 |
Advice, Africa, Fledglings, Seattle
How Fledge helps startups varies from company to company. One of the best stories from Fledge9 is BioGen Kenya. They applied (three times) with a plan to turn used cooking oil...
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Jan 9, 2017 |
Advice, Fledglings
After receiving (and reviewing) almost 2,000 applications, it seems long overdue to provide some guidance to the applicants on how to best apply to Fledge. 1. Do some homework...
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Sep 9, 2016 |
Advice, Fledglings
A new online magazine, Rank & File has a nice article on the power of mentorship. Read it at rankandfilemag.com. Download the Rank & File App for Apple and for Android...
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May 29, 2016 |
Advice, Conscious, Investment, Startup Ecoystem
Fledge is an impact accelerator, working with mission-driven for-profit startups from around the world, helping them achieve their impacts by teaching them how to succeed in their...
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Mar 23, 2016 |
Advice, Conscious, Investment, Measuring Impact, Startup Ecoystem
One of the biggest challenges of impact investing is in measuring the impact of the investments. One would think that this would be an easy, solved problem, but it is far from...
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Mar 15, 2016 |
Advice, Africa, Conscious
An excerpt from the LelapaFund Blog: After a hectic six months discovering Kenya’s small business scene, LelapaFund is happy to share some insights from the ground with our...
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Jan 12, 2016 |
Advice, Interviews/Articles, Startup Ecoystem
From the mouth of one of the inventors of the modern accelerator, Brad Feld, how accelerators came to be and why they work. Given Fledge is based on the program and learnings of...
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May 11, 2015 |
Advice, Interviews/Articles, Startup Ecoystem
Joe Wallin and Michael Schneider, two inquisitive Seattle startup lawyers interview Fledge founder and Managing Director Luni Libes on “The Law of Startups“. What is...
