If I’m Raising Capital, Should I Be A B Corp?

A B Corp, or more properly a benefit corporation, is a new class of corporation for companies seeking to blend both profit and purpose. The B Corp is a new type of corporation for a new type of entrepreneur, the social entrepreneur, who creates business models that benefit society, the environment, employees, customers and investors….

How To Evaluate Impact In A B Corp

The B Corp is distinct from a traditional corporation in two key ways. First, the purpose of the company is much broader, shifting from a narrow pursuit of pure profit maximization to creating benefit for all stakeholders. Secondly, B Corps have a higher standard of transparency and accountability regarding their social and environmental performance. All…

What is a B Corp?

A B Corp or, in this case more properly called a benefit corporation, is a new class of corporation for companies seeking to blend both profit and purpose. The B Corp is a new type of corporation for a new type of entrepreneur, the social entrepreneur, who creates business models that benefit society, the environment,…

Four Fundamental Questions To Ask Potential Impact Investors

As the co-founder of Synergy Social Ventures, a Hong Kong-based organization that helps early stage social ventures find the money, skills, and support they need to grow, I spend a lot of time helping entrepreneurs prepare for talks with investors. In my experience, I’ve seen the massive potential for miscommunication between the two parties. With…

Hire a Top Performer Every Time with These Interview Questions

Hire a Top Performer Every Time with These Interview Questions Hiring the right people is extremely hard. Not only is the market tightly constrained — especially for tech companies, but the unwritten rules for how to hire are often plain wrong. With more candidates who “look good on paper” going on to flounder at startups,…

Minimal Viable Team

Every startup I’ve worked at folks have lamented about how there were never enough resources to accomplish everything they wanted to. Whether it was not enough engineers to build the desired features, not enough designers to design those experiences, not enough marketers to drum up interest, or not enough salespeople to generate revenue. It always…

Bootstrapping Is The New Seed

The all-American ‘rags to riches’ story is one that many can identify with or find inspiration from — going from sleeping in your car to owning more than you hate to admit, or coming from humble beginnings only to reach fame and fortune. Entrepreneurship is the vehicle of this story, where we have the power…

6 Questions To Ask Before You Start A Social Enterprise

Social Enterprise

Treating diseases, addressing climate change, expanding access to healthy food or creating new methods of learning. These are just a few of the major social challenges that companies—yes, companies—are working to solve. Of course, the public and nonprofit sectors continue to play a critical role in tackling these challenges, but we’ve also witnessed an increasing…

Valuation as a Scorecard.

When you set out to build a great company, it’s hard to know how you are doing along the way. There does come a time when you know you’ve done it. Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Salesforce, Tesla, etc got there. We know that. And the founders of those companies know that too. But two years…

10 Rookie Startup Legal Mistakes

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