This was the year that social entrepreneurship crossed into the IT geek consciousness of South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi), with the advent of Good Capitalist party (info, report). Good Capitalist, attended by nearly 2000 people, by some reports, was created by social media / social entrepreneur crossover star-child Martin Montero, aka the ubiquitous @montero in [...]

Our great friends, the inspiring change agents at the Unreasonable Institute have been doing some excellent interviews with social entrepreneurs and impact investors on the SoCap blog ever since the event ended last August.
During what any humble, reflexively sarcastic entrepreneur would think of as a week with no other good interview candidates, we got an [...]

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) [...]

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 [...]

An in-depth report on research into sustainable economic development just got posted at nuPOLIS.  The rigor and cutting edge research that is the hallmark of this network is evident on this seminal work.
Here’s the summary:

In a new report, Sustainable Economic Development, nuPOLIS partner James Nixon details the comprehensive approaches that that cities and regions are using [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Reminder: Join the meetup tonight.
Here’s a summary of what to expect, straight from the Meetup description:

Our friends and collaborators Peter van Geldern and David Marks have re-launched their Shades of Green Network (SGN) this week.  SGN is a network of advisors and investors who are focusing on building green businesses in the New York metro area.  Their network has professionals of all disciplines (accountants, lawyers, grant writers, marketers and more), [...]

Friend, advisor, sustainable investing activist and “our hero,” Jed Emerson (who is more of a Charles Barkley “I am not a role model” kind of hero) just published a piece in Forbes that  points to some trends that would startle the traditional investing community.
The little secret of this past year’s capital crisis is that while [...]