by Pique Ventures | May 28, 2019 | Big Ideas, Events, Fund Your Business, Innovation
What is Your Impact Investment Thesis?An investment thesis is to an investor like a value proposition is to an entrepreneur. You get asked what your thesis is all the time. As you get started, you’ll need to test out your thesis and see if any entrepreneurs want your...
by Pique Ventures | Apr 2, 2019 | Impact assessment and measurement, Impact investing, Impact investment, Pique Fund, Trends
The venture capital model of unbridled capital-fuelled growth has faced some backlash recently (paywall). The conventional model of venture capital gained a reputation for a focus on short-term gains for the few. Harvard Business Review described it this way: “ One...
by Bonnie Foley-Wong | Feb 11, 2017 | Impact investing, Integrated Investing
It’s RRSP season here in Canada, but this isn’t a post about retirement planning nor is it about scrambling to meet the February 28th deadline for the 2016 tax year. There are plenty of other informative articles about strategic and prudent retirement...
by Bonnie Foley-Wong | Dec 20, 2016 | Integrated Investing
Someone poignantly remarked that Silicon Valley has a “problem” problem. Indeed, we don’t need another app to tell us conveniently where the nearest coffee shop is and it is unlikely that the world’s most pressing problems will be solved by...
by Bonnie Foley-Wong | Dec 13, 2016 | Impact investment, Integrated Investing
Not everyone is a fan of Uber, the technology-driven logistics company that relies on a network of drivers voluntarily using the app. Others have questioned, in detail, whether Uber would actually improve the efficiency of the urban car service industry and improve...
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