by Bonnie Foley-Wong | Dec 1, 2021 | Book, Integrated Investing, Leadership
Simon Sinek was right – start with why. At the time of writing Integrated Investing, I felt very strongly about a core concept of Integrated Investing, which I called “Access to Essential Resources” and the book opens with this. Chapter 2, however, encourages...
by Bonnie Foley-Wong | Nov 29, 2021 | Book, Integrated Investing
The Fall is a great time to start something. Harking back to school days, I still associate the Fall with the start of a new year. Five years ago, in November 2016, I published my first book, Integrated Investing: Impact Investing with Head, Heart, Body, and Soul. But...
by Bonnie Foley-Wong | Aug 25, 2021 | Gender Lens Investing, Integrated Investing
In 2011, while contemplating how to move money more purposefully and wondered where all the women investors were, I was fortunate to meet Jackie VanderBrug at Social Venture Institute. Thanks to Jackie’s invitation to attend Criterion Institute’s...
by Pique Ventures | May 21, 2019 | Big Ideas, Impact investing, Impact investment, Innovation, Integrated Investing, Leadership, Pique Fund, Vision, Women Investing in Women, Women Investors
When Bonnie Foley-Wong named her firm, she chose Pique Ventures because she wanted people to be curious about the unknown, rather than be afraid of it. Seven years on, she has come to realize that we need more than just curiosity about the unfamiliar – we need...
by Bonnie Foley-Wong | Feb 26, 2019 | Impact investing, Integrated Investing
I was so dismayed when I read the story about a venture-backed company that went out of business and left its suppliers in the lurch, many of them small businesses. Although venture capital is the source of funding for less than 10% of fast-growing firms, as I wrote...
by Bonnie Foley-Wong | Feb 19, 2019 | Impact investing, Integrated Investing, Pique Fund
You’re probably familiar with the term “unicorn” — coined by Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures in 2013 — which is a company valued at over $1 billion by public or private market investors. Critics of the billion-dollar-valuation as the primary indicator of success or...
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