This article was originally posted on Vista Hispano as part of a series on Latino startups. For the rest of the series, go here. When Peter Wilkins of New Futuro set out to raise a round of venture capital this year, he found very few investors that understood his target market: US Hispanics. In the …
The State of Latino Startups: Exploring the Challenges
This blog was originally posted on Vista Hispano as a series on Latino startups. Read the first one here. Startup struggles, generally speaking If there is one topic that entrepreneurs love to talk about more than any other, it is be the trials and tribulations of being a founder. You work impossibly long hours; you wake …
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The Case for Catalytic Funding of Latino-focused Startups
[Note: If you're interested in the updated and much-improved version of this pitch--especially if you're a Latino-focused entrepreneur--my gmail address is mark.c.hand.] This year, the Saïd Business School at Oxford launches GOTO, an ambitious project to focus the university’s attention on a particular topic of global import. The first topic is demography, with a focus on …
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Social Entrepreneurship 101
In 2013 I co-authored a post on the Skoll Centre blog called "Social Entrepreneurship 101. That blog linkrotted in 2020, so here's the full text, thanks to the Wayback Machine. “Social Entrepreneurship,” according to one definition, “strives to solve social problems at a systemic level using innovative, sustainable, scalable, inclusive and measurable approaches.” What? In the 1980s, …
Mark Clayton Hand, Ph.D. 