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Can Impact Investing Avoid the Failures of Microfinance?

Harvard Business Review

Impact investors over the past decade largely focused on proving that impact investments could achieve a “market rate” or above return profile. Making something wildly profitable will of course attract the attention of financial markets, and thus increase the chances it will scale effectively. By 2010, they had succeeded.

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Where to Find Authentic Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Or, in Kamchatka, you’ll find ecotourism ventures by Wild Salmon River Expeditions , initiated by an alliance between a former American military officer and his Russian associates. Companies and venture capitalists chase hot markets. Entries into markets triggered more entries, and markets that saw companies fleeing went cold.

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What Initial Coin Offerings Are, and Why VC Firms Care

Harvard Business Review

Then, via price dynamics determined by market supply and demand, the value is settled on by the network of participants, rather than by a central authority or government. ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S. Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.