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COVID-19 will require long-term and short-term solutions
Here are a few rapid-responses from startups By Victoria Fram & Rob Tashima A pandemic, by its nature, demands immediate reactions. The exponential growth of a fatal disease like coronavirus means that individual people, households, businesses, and governments all need to move quickly to restrict transmission while also preparing for the longer-term impacts we will experience, and thinking about how we increase our preparedness to better handle these events in the future.
How Village Capital Companies Are Building Healthy Communities
From connected health to hydropower plants, our entrepreneurs are building a more inclusive and sustainable future We recently shared that Village Capital has made 100 investments. Take a look at how some of our first 100+ investments are helping to build the healthy, connected communities of tomorrow. How We Eat Local fruits and vegetables are still harder to find than factory-farmed produce.
Village Capital Marks 100th Investment – Village Capital – Medium
Wexus Technologies was the 100th company to be selected for investment through the “peer review” process For the past eight years at Village Capital we’ve been working toward a single goal: how can we get more people solving big global problems through entrepreneurship?
Can’t relate to #metoo? What if it cost you to ignore it?
If there’s one glimmer of a silver lining in this challenging and tumultuous year, it’s the fact that more people are becoming aware of the inequities and abusive power dynamics felt by women in so many professional, social and cultural circles. This growing awareness has exposed the “as a father of daughters” syndrome. You’ve seen it: A man speaks up against sexual misconduct by saying he can’t keep quiet as a father of daughters. The implication is that he wouldn’t have spoken up ...
Village Capital in 2017: Betting big on ideas in blind spots
“Clarence Bethea doesn’t have the standard background for a tech entrepreneur.” That was the first line of a recent profile on our portfolio company Upsie, and a good tagline for the types of investments we try to make at Village Capital: entrepreneurs who might otherwise be overlooked by traditional early-stage investors.
Equity-only investing hurts both VCs and startups
To back transformative innovators, early stage investors will need to start innovating too. Despite its popularity, the equity-only strategy, on average, disappoints. The common line of thinking in the venture world is that it’s OK if seven out of 10 of my companies fail, as long as one or two home runs deliver a multiple of the whole fund.
Why Entrepreneurs Are Better Judges of New Ideas than Expert Investors
Seven years ago, we launched Village Capital with the “Creator” in mind. After spending time in the traditional venture capital world (and learning from research by the Kauffman Foundation and others), we realized that the economics of investing in truly new ideas using the traditional venture capital process are, frankly, poor. To re-invent the venture capital process, we would need to look to other innovative models for picking winners; models that had delivered results.
Here’s why the best investment funds in the world aren’t the ones you think – Village Capital
Second, Spensa Technologies, in West Lafayette, Indiana, developed out of the engineering department at Purdue University. Like Instagram, Spensa connects people through real-time information sharing, but the company attacks a more important problem for society: they’ve built a system where farmers can collect and share information about insects?—?which destroy 30% of our crops (more than $60 billion in value)?—?each year.
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