by Mike Goodrich | Jan 23, 2020 | 2020
With the new season, now is the time I love to make an outdoor fire. Nothing beats watching the glow of a fire with a nice drink in hand, basking in the warmth of one (or both). No one checks their phone around an outdoor fire. They sit and talk quietly: a...
by Mike Goodrich | Dec 17, 2019 | 2019, Social Capital and Social Entrepreneurialism, Social Capital Series
You know who’s not good at fighting fires? Arsonists. – Anand Giridharadas In the late nineteenth century, New York City had a huge pollution problem: horses. Specifically, horse poop, which littered the streets. The...
by Mike Goodrich | Dec 3, 2019 | 2019, Social Capital and Social Entrepreneurialism, Social Capital Series
In order to properly frame this question, we first need a working understanding of a few shared terms. First: what is a market rate of return? Here’s a definition from My Accounting Course (emphasis added by me): Definition: Market rate, or the going rate, is the rate...
by Mike Goodrich | Nov 12, 2019 | 2019, Entrepreneurialism, Social Capital and Social Entrepreneurialism, Social Capital Series
Social capital is an area ripe for controversy. Not that social capital, in and of itself, is bad or wrong — few would say that doing well by doing good is a bad thing. Most people involved in social capital want to find ways to both succeed financially and...
by Mike Goodrich | Oct 29, 2019 | 2019, Social Capital and Social Entrepreneurialism, Social Capital Series
The first in a series of First Avenue Ventures blog posts on Social Capital. Social capital is a concept not easily nor well-defined. In this series, we define social capital as the use of capital (for our purposes, we examine it primarily as financial capital)...
