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Is Social Capital Doing Good?

Is Social Capital Doing Good?

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...
Can Social Capital Investments Produce Market Rate Returns?

Can Social Capital Investments Produce Market Rate Returns?

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...
Issues Surrounding Social Capital

Issues Surrounding Social Capital

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...
Introduction to Social Capital and Impact Investment

Introduction to Social Capital and Impact Investment

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)...
Regulations Reconsidered

Regulations Reconsidered

by Mike Goodrich | Oct 18, 2019 | 2019, Birmingham, Business Lessons, Entrepreneurialism, Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

I just finished Mike Isaac’s Super Pumped: the Battle for Uber, which I strongly recommend, particularly for fans of corporate intrigue and Silicon Valley excess. The story focuses on the rise and fall of Travis Kalanick, the hard-charging founder and CEO of Uber, who...
Examination of Opportunity Zones Begins

Examination of Opportunity Zones Begins

by Mike Goodrich | Sep 24, 2019 | 2019, Birmingham, Entrepreneurialism

Change usually has a downside, and the Opportunity Zone[1] tax law is no exception. A couple of pieces published in The New York Times highlight a negative perspective coming to the fore of this new tax law. In “How a Trump Tax Break to Help Poor Communities Became a...
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