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Gala Hernández, directora de cine explica cómo es la comunidad "incel" en su corto `La mecánica de los fluidos´ premiado con un César por la Academia de cine francés.  "Ellos se consideran perdedores, que no tienen ni reconocimiento profesional o laborar y tampoco mucho poder adquisitivo. Te sientes solo, te sientes rechazado y la comunidad incel te da la respuesta: es culpa de las mujeres, es culpa del feminismo, son todas indeseables".

In this episode, Luni Libes talks about accomplishing the mission of your business with help from investors while creating an impact on the world. He is a serial entrepreneur, educator, author, mentor, advisor, and investor. Luni is the founder and managing director of Fledge, a conscious company accelerator that helps mission-driven companies earn profit and revenues while making an impact on the world. He helps these entrepreneurs to connect them with investors and make them into even more investable and impactful companies. To learn more about Luni Libes, go to http://aha.pub/LuniLibes. To get in touch with him, visit http://www.lunarmobiscuit.com and http://fledge.co/.      Mitchell Levy is the Global Credibility Expert at AHAthat, the first AHA leadership (Thought Leadership) platform on the market for thought leaders, experts and companies to unleash their genius to the world. His passion is helping entrepreneurs, business owners and C-Suite Executives get known as thought leaders & become best-selling authors with the AHA platform. He is an accomplished entrepreneur who has created 20 businesses in Silicon Valley including four publishing companies that have published over 800 books. Mitchell is an international best-selling author with 60 business books, has provided strategic consulting to over 100 companies, has advised over 500 CEOs on critical business issues, and has been chairman of the board of a NASDAQ-listed company.Visit https://www.credibilitynation.com to learn more about the Credibility Nation community.Visit https://www.ahathat.com/author to learn how you can become an Amazon best-selling author in 4 months.

A conversation with Luni Libes, about the enormous opportunities of African food companies and on buying from smallholder famers and selling into the local regional markets. We also discuss why the traditional venture capital model doesn't make any sense and a holding company does, plus why and how he wants to take the holding company public in a few years' time.---------------------------------------------------Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits on www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag. Support our work:Share itGive a 5-star ratingBuy us a coffee… or a meal! www.Ko-fi.com/regenerativeagriculture----------------------------------------------------More about this episode on https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/luni-libes.Find our video course on https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/course.----------------------------------------------------The above references an opinion and is for information and educational purposes only. It is not intended to be investment advice. Seek a duly licensed professional for investment advice. Support the showFeedback, ideas, suggestions? - Twitter @KoenvanSeijen - Get in touch www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.comJoin our newsletter on www.eepurl.com/cxU33P! Support the showThanks for listening and sharing!

En esta ocasión tocaremos un tema que o no se trata como se debe o se hace burla sobre él, los célibes involuntarios o incels. De la mano del director Simonow y la participación de Dino Coppola, Pelayo y Guerrilla Jr daremos una visión global de la situación de los incels en Europa, América y Asia. También habrá tiempo para comentar el nobel de economía de este año y Simonow acabara el programa hablando sobre la noticia de Pfizer. Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/albert-behar/dixieland-strut License code: KSYLBRHJIXCOBYHA

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Realize Impact's Luni Libes and ImpactAlpha's Zuleyma Bebell join Brian Walsh to discuss the LIIST, an exciting new sampling of impact funds and companies that, based on public or accessible information, seem to be in active fundraising mode. The LIIST: https://impactalpha.com/the-brief-the-liist-of-open-impact-funds-evs-as-a-service-impact-tech-in-africa-federal-policy-for-community-solar/ Luni's podcasts: https://www.lunarmobiscuit.com/podcasts/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha-briefing/message

Realize Impact's Luni Libes and ImpactAlpha's Zuleyma Bebell join Brian Walsh to discuss the LIIST, an exciting new sampling of impact funds and companies that, based on public or accessible information, seem to be in active fundraising mode. The LIIST: https://impactalpha.com/the-brief-the-liist-of-open-impact-funds-evs-as-a-service-impact-tech-in-africa-federal-policy-for-community-solar/ Luni's podcasts: https://www.lunarmobiscuit.com/podcasts/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

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Luni Libes, founder of Africa Eats, is a serial entrepreneur, or, actually, a Parallel Entrepreneur, currently running about 5 companies that help social enterprises. He started and sold several tech startups before moving into impact investing. Now he runs several Businesses that help other startups. For example, He runs the startup accelerator Fledge. He provides follow on investment through Africa Eats. He teachers investors how to invest at the Angel Sccelerator (a very important thing, btw. Angel investors need to learn how to invest just like entrepreneurs need to learn how to runa business). His has a community called Realize Impact and Investor Flow which helps shares opportunities for investors. Today we talked about Africa Eats which is not a investment fund but a holding company--a totally new way to provide capital to entrepreneurs that I think we will see a lot more of once Luni proves that it works. You can best think of Africa Eats as Berkshire Hathaway for food in Africa. Luni is an absolutely incredible personality and doing amazing work. Africa Eats is a small company now but I think they are well positioned to be huge. I was really lucky to get him on the podcast because I'm sure in a year or two he will be on The Joe Rogan Experience and Tim Ferriss show and he won't have any time for small podcast like me so the real pleasure to talk to him. They are raising a crowd funding round so if you want to invest you can by going to wefunder.com/africaeats Luni's Companies: Fledge Africa Eats theAngelAccelerator.com Realize Impact investorflow.org Luni's Blog Must read blog by Africa Eats Africa Eats Podcast Contact Luni at: LinkedIn Twitter Previous Podcasts: Law of Startups The How of Business Social Entrepreneur ---- This podcast is sponsored by Grant & Co, a consultancy that helps social entrepreneurs raise capital. Grant & Co is looking to hire people like you to write, build financial models and do design work. Go to thegrant.co/jobs/ to apply for a job. ---- Do you have a question for this guest? Record your comment at: wishesgranted.media ---- Music: Cali by Wataboi

Michael “Luni” Libes is a serial entrepreneur who is also the Founder and Managing Director of Fledge, a startup accelerator that focuses on socially conscious, mission-driven, for-profit companies. Today, Fledge runs in multiple cities around the world, inviting in teams from anywhere doing most anything that makes the world a better place.On today's episode, Luni  shares about how he grows impactful companies, his work with Fledge and Africa Eats (which is formed by the graduates of the Fledge program), and why storytelling is such an important skill for any entrepreneur.Resources:          https://lunarmobiscuit.com/ - Check out all of Luni's resources https://www.lunarmobiscuit.com/the-next-step/ - The Next Step series of books written by Lunihttps://www.lunarmobiscuit.com/podcasts/ - Check out Luni's Podcast                                             Actionable Take-aways:1. One can create impact with a company by embedding the mission into its products or solutions. Like Wholefoods, the mission to provide high quality organic food to people was built into its business model. 2. Learn to think outside the book with the limited resources you have. Great businesses are often built from the ingenuity of an entrepreneur who is able to make the most of what they have and to innovate something out of it. 3. Focus on being able to tell your company's story. Good storytelling gets a higher level of engagement from customers and helps grow your business.Connect with Ted on: His Website at : www.tedteo.com LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ted-teo/ Instagram at: @ted.teo Facebook at : https://www.facebook.com/groups/tedteo

With the mammoth album and title "The Machine is burning and now everyone knows it could happen again", french post rockers of BRUIT ≤ released a stunning full length debut last week. So we didn't think twice and called up bassist, violinist, keyboarder and producer Clément Libes to find out everything from their surprising musical origins to their deep philosophical concept. All of that and more only on Episode 126 of the Progcast. Follow us: Website: https://stewis-podcasts.castos.com/podcasts/997/episodes Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/progcastpodcast/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/progcastpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Progcastpodcast Progcast is a Stewis Media Podcastwww.stewismedia.com

With over 25 years experience in the start-up world, Luni Libes shares his passion for funding impact ventures. Emphasizing experience over intuition, Luni's success hinges on the patterns he's observed over the last 30 years and his ability to filter out start-ups that are likely to fail by pinpointing the holes in a given business model.

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Lindsay has over 13 years of experience providing professional planning services in both the public and private sectors. Her extensive experience includes due diligence reports, comprehensive plan amendments, rezoning, and site and master planning. Lindsay has also provided planning support for land acquisition through the eminent domain process for the FDOT, facilitated public outreach, and worked with neighborhood groups on master plans, and with government entities on corridor and streetscape studies. Lindsay also has experience managing and representing multidisciplinary projects through the entirety of the land use entitlement process. On the podcast, Lindsay discusses how she started working in the planning field and her role as Director of Planning for WGI. She initially went to school for Pharmacy but changed her major a few times until she found her passion in Planning. Lindsay shares about her time growing up in New Hampshire, making her way to Florida, and raising her twin daughters.  

Get to know these successful thought leaders and find out how they present themselves and their crafts as experts in their fields. Dave Lukas (http://aha.pub/DaveLukas) is an entrepreneur, author, investor, and the current vice president and CSO of Grasp Technologies, Inc. He is the founder and host of “Misfit Entrepreneur,” a weekly podcast giving insights from top entrepreneurs all over the world about their non-traditional methods for achieving success, which Dave uniquely calls their “Inner Misfit,” or the Misfit side. His other specialties are in business leadership, client relations, strategic planning, and project management. To get in touch with him, visit http://www.misfitentrepreneur.com/. Luni Libes (http://aha.pub/LuniLibes) is a serial entrepreneur, educator, author, mentor, advisor, and investor. Luni is the founder and managing director of Fledge, a conscious company accelerator that helps mission-driven companies earn profit and revenues while making an impact on the world. He helps these entrepreneurs to connect them with investors and make them into even more investable and impactful companies. To get in touch with him, visit http://www.lunarmobiscuit.com and http://fledge.co/. Shontina Gladney (http://aha.pub/ShontinaGladney) is the President of SG Global Network, founder of My City My Biz Small and Home-Based Events, expansion developer at Intele Travel and radio host at Pinnacle Motivations International Media. Shontina conducts business coaching for entrepreneurs. She helps to equip them with the right vehicles and tools in order to master the art of collaborative economics. Shontina is committed to helping her clients form mutually beneficial relationships in order to grow their businesses. To get in touch with her, visit https://www.sggngroup.com/. Global Credibility Expert, Mitchell Levy is a TEDx speaker and international bestselling author of over 60 books. As The AHA Guy at AHAthat (https://ahathat.com), he helps to extract the genius from your head in a two-three hour interview so that his team can ghostwrite your book, publish it, distribute it, and make you an Amazon bestselling author in four months or less. He is an accomplished Entrepreneur who has created twenty businesses in Silicon Valley including four publishing companies that have published over 800 books. He’s provided strategic consulting to over one hundred companies, and has been chairman of the board of a NASDAQ-listed company. Mitchell has been happily married for thirty years and regularly spends four weeks in Europe with family and friends. Visit https://mitchelllevy.com/mitchelllevypresents/ for an archive of all the podcast episodes. Connect to Mitchell Levy on: Mitchell Levy Present AHA Moments: https://mitchelllevy.com/mitchelllevypresents/ Thought Leader Life: https://thoughtleaderlife.com AHAthat Radio: https://AHAthatRadio.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fledge Accelerators have helped 81 companies from 26 countries since 2012. Their goal is to help foster a wave of companies that make a measurable impact in the world, collectively improving in the lives of everyone on the planet.   Key Links: www.fledge.co The Next Step entrepreneur’s curriculum Fledge Demo Day on YouTube   In this episode, we ask: What is the mission and vision of Fledge? Can you share why you started Fledge? Can you share more about how you structure the business model for Fledge? What does the ideal business for Fledge look like? Do you work with exponential tech companies? Why or why not? Can you share more on the methodology to scale? How are you measuring the impact? What do you think it'll take to solve the Global Goals? Any final challenges to the audience? Listen in to hear the founder of Fledge talk through their learning-focused accelerator model and the community of impact businesses they are building across the globe.   More details:   http://www.globalgoalsproject.io/luni-libes/ ——- This episode was hosted by our Creative Director, Katy Ward. Chandler Perog was the interviewer and is our Executive Director. Production and distribution by Simpler Media Productions. For insight into how business and cutting edge technology are changing the world, visit us at GlobalGoalsProject.io

On this episode, Hall welcomes Luni Libes of Fledge, a global network of conscious company accelerators and impact investment funds. Luni is a serial entrepreneur. He started his first company in 1992. Luni then spent 20 years working with tech startups. Right around the 20-year mark, he decided to start a business accelerator and in that process, he started investing in startups. In this episode, you'll get Luni's unique perspective and advice to those wanting to invest. Luni says the key is to see as many deals as you can before you jump in with two feet, but also to take a few steps back and look around and question everything. Luni sets himself apart from other investors by investing in a forum that's not typical. He invests in revenue-based equity. He invests in sectors and geographies that are not common.

Howard Libes has been a writer for over 30 years. He edited the 2,300-page manuscript of If They Move … Kill’em: The Life and Times of Sam Peckinpah by David Weddle (Atlantic/Grove Press) and worked as a collaborator — writer and interviewer — on Among the Mansions of Eden: Tales of Love, Lust, and Land in Beverly Hills by David Weddle (William Morrow/HarperCollins). He has been a freelance writer for many publications too, including Fuel and Los Angeles Times Magazine. Howard’s writing career has been sidetracked a few times over the years by the music business. Most notably, he managed the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies who sold over 2 million albums. He is currently tapping into his lifelong obsession with science fiction and writing the SEEDER series. In October 2017, When All Else Fails, volume one in the series, was released online and in stores. The second volume in the series, Foreseeable Future, is due out in Fall/Winter 2020. http://www.howardlibes.com/ About EugCast: EugCast is a volunteer powered, cooperative chit-chat where we talk with people who may or may not live in the Eugene, Oregon area. We think they have some really cool stories to share, but we’ll leave that up to you, the listener, to decide! https://eugcast.com (https://eugcast.com/) [EugCast on Facebook] https://www.facebook.com/EugeneOregonPodcast/ EugCast is recorded at Trifoia (https://trifoia.com/) in Eugene Oregon!

Michael Libes or “Luni” as he is more well known, is the Founder and Managing Director of Fledge. Luni is a US based serial entrepreneur, impact investor and an ecosystem builder. After watching graduates struggle to launch their mission-driven businesses, Luni founded Fledge, the Conscious Company accelerator. Each year Fledge runs a program with seven mission-driven, for-profit companies. Each company is focused on making an impact on some of the most pressing challenges around the world.If you enjoy this interview be sure to subscribe and share this podcast with your network. Stay awesome Eli SmitFounder & HostGround Breaking Podcast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In today’s “Am I Crazy or Am I Just Raving” Podcast, Thom and Howard continue their conversation, discussing Howard leaving the music business (for the first time) and moving to LA. Once in Southern California, Howard pursued his original profession of being a writer. He wrote for LA Times Magazine and worked as a collaborator and interviewer on a book, meeting with some pretty famous folks along the way. Realizing that he enjoyed his community of friends in Oregon, he moved back to Eugene and started managing a few NW bands. This stint in the music business lasted awhile, but Howard decided to get back to writing, completing a Science Fiction novel called “When All Else Fails”. He’d had this idea in his brain as a teenager and produced an amazing work-of art that is just the first in a series of books that he’s going to complete. Howard Libes Official: http://HowardLibes.com Howard’s Book: https://www.amazon.com/When-Else-Fails-SEEDER-Book-ebook/dp/B075ZBMFP1 Henry’s Child Official: Official Website http://henryschild.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo31Ezkv6jKZBkdgpJSKH4A Bandcamp: https://henryschild.bandcamp.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/henryschild1/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/henrys_child

Thom sits down to talk to his friend and mentor Howard Libes. Howard was the manager for the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies during the explosion of the Zoot Suit Riot album and the band getting signed to Mojo Records. Howard talks about why he ended up in Eugene and how the artist collective used to include a slew of anyone participating in creating art: Musicians, painters and writers. This got Howard into the musical circles with Steve Perry who formed the Daddies and went on to national success with his music. Howard tells some captivating stories and offers insight into the music industry from back in the 90’s. Thom and Howard begin the comparing and contrasting in this episode, but do most of that in Part 2 which will be out next week. Enjoy this fun and insightful look into the history of our extended Elemental Records family. Howard Libes Official: http://HowardLibes.com Henry’s Child Official: Official Website http://henryschild.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo31Ezkv6jKZBkdgpJSKH4A Bandcamp: https://henryschild.bandcamp.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/henryschild1/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/henrys_child

Hey Hey Hey. My Guest today is Luni Libes, the serially persistent Start Up Master.Luni is a 25+ year serial entrepreneur, (co)founder of six companies.His latest startups are Fledge, the conscious company accelerator, where he helps new mission-driven for-profit entrepreneurs from around the world navigate the complexities between idea and customer revenues, and investorflow.org, an online service connecting impact investors.In addition, Luni is Entrepreneur in Residence and Entrepreneurship Instructor at Presidio Graduate School and an Entrepreneur in Residence Emeritus at the University of Washington’s CoMotion, the center for innovation and impact.Luni is author of The Next Step series of books and podcasts, guiding entrepreneurs from idea to startup and The Pinchot Impact Index, a way to measure, compare, and aggregate impact. You can also check him our here lunarmobsicuit.com, fledge.co, and investorflow.orgGo Plastic Neutral !  http://www.plasticoffsets.com

Small business start-ups with Luni Libes. Luni is a serial entrepreneur, mentor, investor, author, and educator. He shares his diverse background including the founding of several successful technology companies, and valuable insights on starting a business. Luni is the author of “The Next Step” series of books, and creator of the site lunarmobiscuit.com which aggregates his books, online classes, thoughts and advice. Henry Lopez is the host of this episode of The How of Business show – dedicated to helping you start, run and grow your small business. (TheHowOfBusiness.com)

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin. Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/2tVq0Rx. Last summer, at a meeting of Seattle impact investors, one of the members said she didn't have need for additional deal flow--investment opportunities--what she needed, she said, according to Nancy Reid, director of the Seattle Impact Investing Group, is a way to build an investor syndicate. "What we need is investor flow." Enter Luni Libes, 47, and Matt Eldridge, 48, who heard that need and set out to create a nonprofit, online platform called Investorflow.org to address the concern. "Impact investors are spread around the world, investing all around the globe. This makes it incredibly difficult for those seeking funding to find these investors. It also means that investors tend not to know each other," Libes said, framing the discussion. Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/2tVq0Rx. Need a corporate social responsibility speaker? Learn more about Devin Thorpe at http://corporatesocialresponsibilityspeaker.com.

Serial entrepreneur, author, and educator. Founder and Managing Director, Fledge LLC -- http://fledge.co Founder and Partner, Aviary.vc -- http://aviary.vc Creator of Kick, a global pre-accelerator -- http://kickcubator.co Founder and Director of Realize Impact -- http://realizeimpact.org Entrepreneur in Residence and Instructor at Pinchot University -- http://pinchot.edu Advisor to 50+ early-stage ventures, with some advice and guidance on entrepreneurship at http://lunarmobiscuit.com

Aviary is a new venture capital seed fund, focused on mission-driven, for-profit conscious companies. It is run by Luni Libes. Luni was first a guest on Social Entrepreneur in episode 3. He is our first returning guest. The last time Luni was with us, it was to describe how Fledge, the conscious company accelerator, works. Fledge has graduated 52 companies from their accelerator. They have 7 more in the program right now. As part of our #MoneyMonday in May series, we talked to Luni about several topics: The challenge of finding early seed capital for impact entrepreneurs. Why he started a venture capital seed fund. Luni’s plans to expand Fledge to new cities around the world. And his latest book, The Pinchot Impact Index. If you are an accredited impact investor and you are interested in learning more, Aviary is building a community of co-investors. You can contact Aviary through the contact form on their web site at http://aviary.vc. Quotes from Luni Libes, Aviary Venture Capital Seed Fund “What you do when you have a company that is succeeding, is you figure out how to make it grow and make it bigger and make it have a bigger impact.” “There are definitely more entrepreneurs than capital.” “I’m focusing on the impact investing corner of entrepreneurship.” “It’s a seed venture capital fund for impact companies doing anything impactful anywhere in the world.” “We’re agnostic on sector. We’re agnostic on geography.” “When you look at it from the perspective of the investor, they have a problem when it comes to deal flow and seed investment and writing small checks.” “Accelerators are really good at finding early stage companies, they’re good at training those companies and most important, they’re good at supporting those companies.” “We’re looking for companies before they’re ready for growth capital.” “The way we run Fledge is based on TechStars.” “The current plan is one new city per year for the ongoing future.” “Like most things in business, it’s going to end up being more network than top-down plan.” “The most important skill is storytelling.” “We need to be able to tell stories that are as good as TED talks.” “Nobody sits down and writes a hit.” “Get out of your box and go seek creative advice in other venues.” Social Entrepreneurship Resources: Aviary: http://aviary.vc Fledge: http://fledge.co Book: The Pinchot Impact Index: Measuring, Comparing, and Aggregating Impact: http://amzn.to/1qlVMnn Culture Shift Learning Academy waiting list: http://tonyloyd.com/assessment Culture Shift Learning Academy We’re moving closer to the launch of Culture Shift Learning Academy, a comprehensive system to help you flesh out your social impact idea and start achieving it. Enrollment isn’t open yet, but you can join the waiting list with other changemakers. Just go to http://tonyloyd.com/assessment and enter your email address. As a thank you, I’ll send you the Social Entrepreneur Startup Readiness Assessment. This useful tool is designed to help you to determine where you are on your startup journey and to successfully focus your development efforts.

This Podcast is sponsored by Maine Startup and Create Week. This years conference is June 20th to 26th in Portand, ME and is going to be amazing! This year's conference is focused on design and innovation. They're bringing in some of the best minds to discuss and teach how entrepreneurs can use the skills that accompany great design and design thinking to help build better companies, products and solutions to the world's most pressing problems? Panels will cover topics ranging from a mixture of Biotech, Agricultural tech and innovation and environmental technology to health-care, disruption of the insurance industry, industrial 3D design and lessons from failed startups. Keynote speakers so far for this year include Mike Perlis (president and CEO of Forbes Media), Heather Stephenson (Head of Brand Strategy at Super) and Peter Roper (Head of Mobile Brand Strategy at Google). Last years conference drew over 4000 attendees and had 215 volunteers contributing over 10,000 hours.  Check out Mainestartupandcreateweek.com for more information. If you want to volunteer, attend or think you know a good speaker for the topics at this years conference, let them know.   Enter Michael “Luni” Libes Michael Luni Libes is one of the most brilliant early stage impact investors. He's also been known to play ahead of the curve (tablets and smartphones) and see the trends and revolutions coming, albeit sometimes he gets there too early. He also sees things differently and has been at the forefront of early and seed stage impact focused support and investing and for years. He's a serial tech entrepreneur turned impact investor and ecosystem builder. His company, Fledge, is an innovative model for all forms of accelerator and incubator programs, and are one with a model that allow companies to continue to receive support from the accelerator once their cohort graduates. Fledge's innovative for-profit investment thesis allows companies to focus on the most important metric to their success - getting customers - while using a small portion of their revenues to gradually buy back equity from its investors. This models provides investors with a 4x return on their investment, and makes the ROI comparable to tech investing. With the launch of Aviary, Luni has now built three major required pieces of a startup ecosystem. A pre-accelerator, an incubator/accelerator program, and now a seed stage impact investing fund. In this episode, Luni will give you the blueprint for how you can join him and start building an impact focused startup support ecosystem in your city.   Admittedly Michael “Luni” Libes is one of the biggest reasons for my entry into the field of impact investing. He was an early influence when I first got involved in the space back in Seattle, and was one of the people that gave me the opportunity to start learning and developing my understanding of impact investing and conducting due diligence on social good startups. It is because of all of these reasons that I am so excited to bring you this episode and share with you a glimpse into how seed stage impact investors see the world of social enterprise and startups. Aviary.vc Fledge.co Spring.is Twitter: Impinvpodcast Facebook: Impact Investing Podcast Michael Libes: ttps://www.linkedin.com/in/lunarmobiscuit www.lunarmobiscuit.com

November 5, 2015 - Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://onforb.es/1WwRng7. Subscribe to this podcast on iTunes by clicking here: http://bit.ly/ymotwitunes or on Stitcher by clicking here: http://bit.ly/ymotwstitcher. Michael “Luni” Libes is the social entrepreneurs’ social entrepreneur. He created Fledge, an accelerator for social entrepreneurs that has now helped to create over $10 million in total funding for it ventures since its founding in 2012. The problem, as Luni sees it, is all wrapped up in opportunity. “The trouble is, the problems of the world continue to expand, while the majority of the money, infrastructure, and power lie in the for-profit sector. If only businesses solved the important problems of the world, their success would lead to profits, scaling up those solutions, then more profits, more scaling, and so on, in a virtuous, self-sustaining cycle.” Luni boasts, “Thirty-nine ’fledglings’ have graduated from the six Fledge programs run over the last three years. Companies such as Evrnu, making cotton recyclable; BURN Manufacturing and Obamastove, manufacturing clean cookstoves in Africa; Distributed Energy Management, conserving energy through financial management; Ensibuuko, modernizing the savings and credit co-ops of East Africa; Seeder, matching green builders with green building suppliers; East Africa Fruit, aggregating and distributing fruits and vegetables in Tanzania, Deehubs, at the corner of free speech and social media; Shift Labs, designing medical devices for the developing world, and dozens of others.” Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://onforb.es/1WwRng7. Please consider whether a friend or colleague might benefit from this piece and, if so, share it.

At 37 years-old, Michael “Luni” Libes had just completed his fifth successful tech startup. Looking for a way to support his fellow entrepreneurs, Luni became a mentor-in-residence for Pinchot University’s MBA of Sustainable Business program. After watching graduates struggle to launch their mission-driven businesses, Luni founded Fledge, the Conscious Company accelerator. Each year Fledge runs a program with seven mission-driven, for-profit companies. With six cohorts completed, Fledge has 39 graduates from ten countries, one-third of whom are in Africa. Each company is making an impact on some of the most pressing challenges of our times. In this episode, Luni shares: The story of how he started Fledge The difference between an “impact company” and others who claim that they are going to change the world The Fledge model for accelerating impact companies Examples of Fledge Alumni and their impact Luni’s latest innovation FledgeX And three business models for mission-driven, for profit companies, including which model he focuses on   Resources referenced in the Interview: Fledge: Fledge.co Luni’s presentation at the 1st Fledge Demo Day: https://youtu.be/gVDiLlVoCoE?t=2m47s Pinchot University (formerly the Bainbridge Graduate Institute): http://pinchot.edu/ Luni’s 2015 Fledge Demo Day presentation where he compares the numbers of charity vs. for-profit businesses: https://youtu.be/r03V6sR87aw StockBox Neighborhood Grocery: http://stockboxgrocers.com/ Techstars: http://www.techstars.com/ Evernu: http://www.evrnu.com/#intro Community Sourced Capital: https://www.communitysourcedcapital.com/ Kiva: http://www.kiva.org/ Arqlite: http://www.arqlite.rocks/ Ensibuuko: http://ensibuuko.com/ GreenChar: http://greenchar.co.ke/ FledgeX: http://fledge.co/x/ The Next Step: Guiding you from idea to startup, book by Luni Libes: http://bit.ly/NextStepLuni Kick Incubator: http://www.kickincubator.com/ Impact Hubs: http://www.impacthub.net/ Fledge Applications: http://fledge.co/about/ “What is a Social Entrepreneur” Infographic: http://tonyloyd.com/socentinfographic  

Michael “Luni” Libes talks with Carol Sanford about his teaching, business investments, and latest venture, FLEDGE.   The post TRC – The Responsible Capitalist – Michael “Luni” Libes appeared first on Carol Sanford.

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