Impact Entrepreneur

Impact entrepreneurs often face not just a shortage of capital, but a mismatch between available financing and the enterprises they are building. By combining angel investment with regulated crowdfunding, founders can create more flexible capital stacks — if they navigate structure, signaling, regulation, and investor risk with care.

For many impact entrepr...

Plastic pollution is usually framed as a waste problem. Beth Gardiner argues that its deeper roots lie upstream — in fossil-fuel economics, disposable design, and public policy.

For decades, the dominant public story about plastic has been intensely personal: recycle diligently, carry a reusable bottle, avoid the straw. In

LA28’s venues will largely be inherited, not newly built. Its most consequential legacy may therefore be the businesses it strengthens, the workers it reaches, and the community wealth its purchasing power leaves behind.

When the Olympic and Paralympic flame leaves Los Angeles in 2028, what will remain for the people who live there?

LA28 will be th...

Uganda’s rapid expansion of digital finance depends on more than apps and accounts. Pebuu’s field-based model shows how trust, language, supervision, and agent liquidity determine whether financial inclusion actually works at the last mile.

On a dusty street in Uganda, the infrastructure of financial inclusion can look deceptively ordinary: a small shopfront,...

At the July 30 Deep Dive, Laurie Lane-Zucker gave the first public presentation of The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough — and argued that the impact economy's next threshold is not scale, but architecture. The full recording is now available.

There is a particular moment in the life of a movement when it stops needing to be explained and starts needing to b...