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Janine Shea

Measuring Shared Value: Not Your Father's CSR - Net Impact - 0 views

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  • Similarly, Intel has achieved global market leadership in the growing global technology education market through its rigorous approach to measuring shared value. Key to Intel’s success, says Barbara McAllister, is understanding “what works” for students and teachers and to incorporate that knowledge into product design and deployment. Ongoing tracking of product performance in the classroom, as well as post-sales measurement of educational outcomes, provides insights to improve the product design and delivery, which ultimately improves the effectiveness of Intel’s education technology solutions and leads to additional sales and greater market share.
Janine Shea

Forget Networking: Connecting - 0 views

  • says he has never been to an official networking event. Instead, he advises, join organizations that focus on the events and activities you love.
Janine Shea

2013: What's In Store For Crowdfunding And Angel Investors - Forbes - 0 views

  • evolve into best practices and common leadership – this will accelerate the crowdfunding phenomena towards the $1 trillion market we predict it to be by 2020.  The investor democratization and customer communication involvement crowdfunding allows will trigger widespread corporate implementation by Q4, 2013.
  • mainly angels at this point – are in for the long haul
  • and not necessarily for a return on capital.
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  • Symbid confirms that their investors want to live vicariously through the efforts and innovation of the issuers.  Their Angel investors frequently roll over their investments.  The investor communication tool allows for investors to easily be updated and even vote on board members and larger decisions with the founders.
  • “In Europe, there will be increasing fusion between crowdfunding and angel networks. The notion that they are two entirely distinct concepts is an artificial one, and we will begin seeing more and more investors using both online (crowdfunding platforms) and offline (angel networks) methods to make their investments.”
  • However, US Angel networks will embrace crowdfunding more when
  • prediction
  • crowdfunding for equity becomes legal in the US in 2014.
  • er dealers that will emerge in 2013 as crowdfunding for equity is delayed. 
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  • Leading crowdfunding for equity players like Chance Barnett at CrowdFunder and Candace Klein at SoMoLend are getting licensed as brokers and will start engaging leading angel networks in the US.  SecondMarket’s partnership with Angelist is a recent direction how the landscape is changing.  Angelist had $12 million plus in transaction by angels into start ups in December 2012.
  • The new angel network ‘upstart’ FundingPost
  • While content is king, distribution is king kong
Janine Shea

Project for Public Spaces | Place Capital: Re-connecting Economy With Community - 0 views

  • To put public space at the heart of public discourse where it belongs
  • tying culture change to economics
  • “We can shift the paradigm of how we build our cities; thinking about economics is a great way to do that because it cuts through the political divide.”
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  • Place Capital, which posits that the economic value of a robust, dynamic place is much more than the sum of its parts.
  • Great places are created through many “investments” in Place Capital–everything from individual actions that together build a welcoming sense of place, all the way up to major physical changes that make a space usable and accessible.
  • Project-driven processes generally lead to places that follow a general protocol without any consideration for local needs or desires.
  • public space projects
  • tend to fall into one of four types of development
  • project-driven processes; top-down, bureaucratic leadership
  • At its core, Place Capital is about re-connecting economy and community.
  • design-led process.
  • eliance on the singular vision of professional designers and other siloed disciplines can often make for spaces that are lovely as objects, but not terribly functional as public gathering places.
  • place-sensitive. Here, designers and architects are still leading the process, but there is concerted effort to gather community input and ensure that the final design responds to the community that lives, works, and plays around the space.
  • Finally, there are spaces that are created through a place-led approach, which relies not on community input, but on a unified focus on place outcomes built on community engagement. The people who participate in a place-led development process feel invested in the resulting public space, and are more likely to serve as stewards.
  • They are involved meaningfully throughout the process
  • turn proximity into purpose
  • concept of Place Capital is ideally-suited to guide the cooperation of so many individual movements that are looking for ways to work together to change the world for the better. Place Capital employs the Placemaking process to help us outline clear economic goals that re-frame the way that people think not only about public space but, by extension, about the public good in general.
  • surge of interest in Placemaking in the United States over the past few decades.
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