SocialFinance.ca produces a weekly round up featuring social finance related news, insights, job openings, and events. We source the content for these round ups from Twitter, an RSS reader, and directly from our community of social finance practitioners. Below is our round up for the week of June 6, 2011.
Not long ago I sat down for a chat with Mark Simpson, Professor and Coordinator at the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Community Innovation atGeorge Brown College, to discuss what factors entice investors into financing social ventures. Simpson started in the corporate world and has since migrated across to teaching the next generation of business people about what it takes to start and maintain a successful enterprise.
Having sat through hundreds of pitches over the years Simpson emphasized that preparation is key when it comes to seeking investment in a small business.
“The biggest mistake is a lack of market research,” Simpson said. “Just because you have a good idea doesn’t mean that people will give you money. You need to be able to show investors you understand the market, the competition, growth drivers and opportunities over the next three to five years.”
SocialFinance.ca produces a weekly round up featuring social finance related news, insights, job openings, and events. We source the content for these round ups from Twitter, an RSS reader, and directly from our community of social finance practitioners. Below is our round up for the week of April 18, 2011.
This past Saturday some of the brightest and most creative minds in Toronto’s social entrepreneurship community came together for Young Social Entrepreneurs of Canada’s second annual re:Vision conference at Metro Hall.
The day started off with Anil Patel, the founder of Timeraiser, telling the room about the group’s innovative events which see volunteers bid time for works of art. In its history Timeraiser has generated 82,000 volunteer hours and helped 6,500 Canadians to pick a cause while also helping hundreds of artists sustain their careers by buying and selling $450,000 of their work.
SocialFinance.ca produces a weekly round up featuring social finance related news, insights, job openings, and events. We source the content for these round ups from Twitter, an RSS reader, and directly from our community of social finance practitioners. Below is our round up for the week of February 21, 2011.
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