Investment Crowdfunding Allows Impact Investing So Easy a Child Can Understand
William McGuire is the founder and CEO of Incolo, a venture accelerator designed to help entrepreneurs find capital right in their backyard, often via investment crowdfunding. He envisions a world where everyone in the community is invested in its businesses, thereby participating in the upside collectively.
So Easy a Child Can Understand
An intriguing part of our conversation revolved around helping ordinary people understand and value the opportunity to invest in local businesses. To prove that even kids can understand the basics of investing via crowdfunding, Incolo hosted some sessions with “little investors,” some not having even celebrated two-digit birthdays.
Will says, “We just want to see how our kids interact.”
After identifying several companies that would naturally appeal to children, including an app, a film and other opportunities, they held the session with a handful of children. This list also included some boring fare, like an assisted living project.
“We asked all the...more
How Would You Change the World?
Devin Thorpe
We posted this originally at superpowers4good.com.
The sage advice to “be the change you want to see in the world” is often attributed to Ghandi. Whether he said that exact phrase is unclear, but it captures the essence of his philosophy.
Today, you can also invest in the change you want to see.
- Suppose you want to see better drug development and healthcare for the Latinx community, you can invest in Somos.
- Imagine you’d like to see clearer opportunities to find and patronize small businesses owned by women, you can invest in Inentionalist.
- Perhaps you’d like to see cleaner extraction of rare earth minerals for all the high-tech toys we use today, you can invest in KMX Technologies.
- If you’d like to invest in solar panels that simultaneously produce electricity with PV and heat water, you can invest in PowerPanel.
The opportunities to back founders aligned with your vision of the future, your priorities for solving social problems, your concern for people and the planet are all endle...more
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