New investment regulations put in place by the recently passed Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) act coupled with a shake-up in the traditional venture capitalistmodel could make it easier for social entrepreneurs to attract initial funding.
Views on things like climate change, war and peace, the present capitalist economic model and poverty would all be welcome contributions to the public discourse, rather than lectures on gay marriage.
In The Dangerous Seduction Of LTV, venture capitalist Bill Gurley of Benchmark Capital pointed out ten pitfalls associated with one increasingly notorious metric: the lifetime customer value model (LTV).