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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...
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Jul 17, 2017 |
Advice
From the inside of the startup process, as the entrepreneur, the pass to success seems rather simple. You’ve got a great idea. It’s obvious that it will work....
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Jul 2, 2017 |
Advice, Conscious, Fledglings
Fledge9 wrapped up less than a month ago, but Fledge10 begins in Lima, Peru tomorrow and before that intensity builds, it seems a good time to wrap-up what Fledge9 did for each of...
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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...
