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...
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)...
Aug 5, 2019 | 2019, Birmingham, Business Lessons, Entrepreneurial Assessment, Entrepreneurialism, Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Social Capital and Social Entrepreneurialism
In 2018, Innovate Birmingham published their final report on the Birmingham entrepreneurial ecosystem. (See five articles at the end of this link – http://www.innovatebham.com/about/) In that report, the core conclusion is that Birmingham needs more...
Dec 18, 2018 | 2019, Birmingham, Business Lessons, Entrepreneurialism, Social Capital and Social Entrepreneurialism
The Birmingham entrepreneurial ecosystem is now in its adolescence. Just like a teenager, our entrepreneurial system does miraculous things that impress, inspire, and invigorate the community — then stays out past curfew, blows allowance money, and remind us...
