14 Mar
Since we last reported on the then-named Sustainable Business Model meetup we launched in Boulder last year, we have merged with the Boulder-based social entrepreneur meetup, and have hosted four session in our new, revised format.
Today, the re-named Sustainable Ventures meetup is consistently gathering between forty and fifty change agents (which we expect to grow) [...]
Posted in Colorado Entrepreneurs, Innovative Systems, Social Venture Investing, Sustainable Business by: Greg Berry
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09 Jan
In December, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper announced that Denver is the first North American city and second city globally to be chosen by Ashoka as a “Change Your City” location. This project, first created in Dublin, Ireland, works to raise awareness and get people involved in change-making. The video below, created by our friends at [...]
Posted in Colorado Entrepreneurs, Innovative Systems by: Greg Berry
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01 Nov
The second meetup in our series on Sustainable Enterprise Models was designed in response to questions coming out of the first one, namely:
Why are we getting together to create another meetup?
What are we going to try to accomplish together?
What is the language of sustainable enterprise, and how can we ensure we have a similar frame [...]
Posted in Colorado Entrepreneurs, Innovative Systems, Social Venture Investing, Sustainable Business by: Kenobi
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25 Oct
Tonight, the Angel Capital Summit finished the first of three review cycles for the largest annual angel investing conference between New York and San Francisco. We’ll save the deeper analysis for later, but here is some aggregate data on the ~70 companies that reached the semi-finals, from the 190+ which applied to one of 30 [...]
Posted in Colorado Entrepreneurs, Social Venture Investing, Sustainable Business by: Kenobi
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14 Oct
With the advent of the new Denver section, word came around (big tip o’ the hat to @BrettGreene) that HuffPo needed bloggers on the local scene. Now, a couple weeks later, I’m a published HuffPo blogger. I’ll be focusing on what I focus on in general — sustainable enterprise, impact investing and transformative IT, with [...]
Posted in Colorado Entrepreneurs, Disruptive Technology, Online Social Networks, Social Venture Investing, Sustainable Business by: Kenobi
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12 Oct
Reminder: Join the meetup tonight.
Here’s a summary of what to expect, straight from the Meetup description:
Posted in Colorado Entrepreneurs, Innovative Systems, Social Venture Investing, Sustainable Business by: Kenobi
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02 Oct
Colorado State University has an incredible program within the Business School — Global Social and Sustainable Enterprise — that “seeks to provide sustainable enterprise solutions to some of the most stubborn issues of our time including poverty, disease, malnutrition and environmental degradation… [equipping students] with the tools and network to become a global social entrepreneur, [...]
Posted in Colorado Entrepreneurs, Disruptive Technology, Social Venture Investing, Sustainable Business, Uncategorized by: Kenobi
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16 Sep
Welcome to our report of what happened at the inaugural Sustainable Business Models Collective meetup in Boulder. Here’s what we set out to do:
PURPOSE
The purpose of this meetup is to provide a place to discuss the specifics of funding, creating and running a sustainable social enterprise. This emerging sector, which spans the for-profit and non-profit [...]
Posted in Colorado Entrepreneurs, Online Social Networks, Social Venture Investing, Sustainable Business, Uncategorized by: Kenobi
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15 Sep
The Angel Capital Summit (ACS) is scheduled for November 17th, with last week’s call for presenters, and an application deadline on October 15th. The ACS runs on a more-or-less traditional pitch format, with 40 organizations pitching in a day. Dozens of partner organizations nominate businesses into the semi-final judging round (run on Business Catapult services) [...]
Posted in Colorado Entrepreneurs, Social Venture Investing, Sustainable Business, Uncategorized by: Kenobi
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15 Sep
Check out #SoCapCO on twitter to track the discussion of all things related to social enterprise in Colorado. The hashtag’s origin starts at the SoCap conference, but also implies lots of aspects we like about the social enterprise movement, with the multiple meanings for social capital, and the “co” representing Colorado, collaboration, collective and lots [...]
Posted in Colorado Entrepreneurs, Disruptive Technology, Innovative Systems, Online Social Networks, Social Venture Investing, Sustainable Business by: Kenobi
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