With the anticipated success of the program, it will certainly be exciting to see what other market-oriented approaches emerge locally and internationally.
According to Maples, he and Miura-Ko are highly complementary: while he is continually optimistic and quick to believe what he sees, she is value-oriented and, like us, approaches venture capital investments by assimilating mountains of data.
In this way, the MCM facilitates the development of new approaches that fit between donations (which are often short-term oriented and not responsive to consumer wants) and large multinational corporations (which are often initially resistant to enter markets where distribution channels are underdeveloped and margins are lower).