“If Everyone Cared” by Nickelback

 
Editor’s Note: As part of foundation’s work to establish a CDFI (Community Development Financial Institute,) we have been researching best practices to (someday) achieve scale beyond Ashtabula County.  This paper looks at early practice in the area of distance-based business development services. Through a survey of practitioners and more in-depth conversations with early pioneers of this work, the paper provides lessons for those looking to embark or expand efforts in this area.  

"To put everything in balance is good. To put everything in harmony is better."

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by Isabel Wilkerson
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“Have Fun Today”
by Mike Perkins

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Editor's Note: As a person who was forced into entrepreneurship by losing his job, this Bloomberg point of view really caught my eye. And it gives impetus to my work with the foundation to find and finance more people just like I was in the late '80s........a hard worker with good ideas and no capital. [more]

Author’s Note:  This is the 4^th in a series of 12 articles meant to share my trials and my errors in starting up and building The Business of Good.  They are intended to help anyone who pursues a noble cause.

"For something this complicated, it's really hard to design products by focus

groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them."
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"That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than
 complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But
 it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains."