Providing entrepreneurs with management expertise and social capital through business mentoring is recognized as a valuable component of entrepreneurial success, yet these services are typically costly to provide and difficult to standardize and scale. Accelerators and Incubators across the globe are working towards providing the critical mix …
Do we need to do everything by the numbers? How can (and do) we use relationships and trust to build the capital needed for a new economy? Three organizations who are radically transforming the capital system by using trust and human relationships in finance are: Kiva, who …
In late 2011, Kiva.org launched the Kiva Zip pilot program to more closely connect Kiva’s community of a million lenders with the entrepreneurs they crowdfinance. We’ve been overwhelmed by the engagement and connections we’ve witnessed as a result. Lenders are no longer just lenders. They are now …