Creating a supportive environment for seed stage impact ventures - By Jed Emerson from ImpactAssets

Before any enterprise model has been demonstrated, before there is customer traction or any talk of “post-revenue, pre-profit” ventures worthy of investment and certainly before any impact is evident, there are countless early stage entrepreneurs who first believe innovation is worth the effort to create new solutions to existing market problems. Investors, on the other hand, are inherently looking to manage risks of all types. This difference in perspective between entrepreneur and investor is at the heart of a persistent gap in seed stage funding for social entrepreneurs.