Business
The New Controversy Over Microfinance
We talk a lot on this site about the balance between doing good and doing well. We love when major corporations use their influence to help...
Business
How Can We Fix the Restaurant Industry?
The other day, my friend Jerri Chou from All Day Buffet asked an interesting question via Twitter: “I don't know why I don't know this, but...
Business
Why You Should Hug a Hedge Fund Guy
It’s easy to beat up on finance folks. Maybe it’s that whole facilitating the collapse of the global economy thing. Or maybe it’s just the...
Business
How Much Should We Tax Venture Capitalists?
I’ve talked a lot about venture capitalists in this space, and it's no wonder why: They play an incredibly important role in helping...
Business
The TOMS Shoe Model: Meaning or Marketing?
In the last few years, doing good and helping others has become fashionable with companies clamoring to get on the do-gooding bandwagon. One...
Environment
What BP Should Have Said
By now, we’ve heard just about everything there is to hear about the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. We’ve listened to corporate...
Business
How Nokia is Dialing Up the Future
In addition to chronicling his own experiences launching a social venture, Joe occasionally writes about other things related to his work, to...
Business
Diary of a Social Venture Start-up: Dealing with Venture Capital
In my last post, I talked a bit about venture capital. It’s a primary method of fueling growth and an integral part of the life of many an...
Business
Diary of a Social Venture Start-up: Why Staging Works
You hear a lot about slow these days. Slow design, slow food—GOOD even did a whole issue on the concept recently. I'm going to argue for a kind...
Business
Diary of a Social Venture Start-up: Lessons from Kickstarter
The other day, I saw something interesting: Business Insider ran a list called "The Twenty Hot New York City Start-ups You Need to Watch," and...
Business
Diary of a Social Venture Start-up: Learning from Oscar
Last week, I joined more than 3 million other Americans in an annual ritual of pomp, excess, and overwhelming boredom. It wasn't 20 minutes...
Business
Diary of a Social Venture Start-up: Starting Your Business
Earlier this month, I shared some tips from my favorite business founders about what helps them run their businesses. After that post ran, I got a...
Business
Diary of a Social Venture Start-up: The Start-up Survival Kit
Everybody's got something that helps get them through the day: that first cup of coffee, a trip to the gym, a killer playlist. What about the...
Business
Diary of a Social Venture Start-up: The Importance of Being SMART
When you're just starting your business, there are a lot of benefits to being small. You're nimble, fluid, you can adapt quickly to new...
Business
Diary of a Social Venture Start-up: Polishing Your Presentations
Most of us hate dealing with salespeople. I'm not talking about the folks who help you find the right size shirt, I'm talking about the smarmy guy...
Business
The Decade in Business
Ten years of changing the way we do business, for better and for worse. What do you call these last 10 years: Were they the two-thousands? The...
Business
Diary of a Social Venture Start-up: The Right Investors
As you might have noticed, I've been thinking a lot about money recently. It sort of goes with the territory of trying to start a social...
Business
Diary of a Social Venture Start-up: Finding Funding
Like many entrepreneurs, I spend a lot of my time looking for money. I'm not talking about digging under couch cushions (unless of course you have...
