How Does the Story End?: The 2022 Birmingham Entrepreneurial Assessment

How Does the Story End?: The 2022 Birmingham Entrepreneurial Assessment

I have said this before, and I will probably say this again, but to grow our entrepreneurial economy, we need to directly invest in companies. We do not need to blindly invest in them, but we do not need to commission another study on the ecosystem. We need to be...
Social Capital Resources

Social Capital Resources

For some of you close to me, SOCAP is a way-too-familiar refrain. SOCAP Global is an annual conference devoted to social capital or impact investing held in San Francisco. I love it and I talk about it often. When I first attended SOCAP in 2018, it was an eye-opening...
Venture Capital and the Destruction of America: Why Marc Andreessen Is Wrong.

Venture Capital and the Destruction of America: Why Marc Andreessen Is Wrong.

In his essay released on April 18, 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 Crisis, Marc Andreessen — famed venture capitalist and founder of Netscape — implored businesses, business people, and society to build great new things – in healthcare, in education, in...