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Learning from failure

By |2015-03-05T20:46:15+00:00April 29th, 2013|Categories: Enterprise, Measuring outcomes|Tags: , , |

Venturesome, the social investment arm of the Charities Aid Foundation, has recently posted a blog about failure - why it is important to recognise that it happens and to learn from it. We entirely endorse Venturesome's position on failure.  We set out to help people try new things.  In some cases these trials, accompanied by some [...]

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Supporting enterprise – we make our first loan

By |2015-03-05T20:46:28+00:00January 19th, 2013|Categories: Enterprise|Tags: , , , , , |

The death of Aaron Swartz on 11 January 2013 has raised public awareness of the issue of access to academic publishing.  Swartz, the internet entrepreneur behind Reddit, followed the Gates/Zuckerberg path of dropping out of a prestige university to found an internet company which then made him millions. After selling Reddit, Swartz started campaigning for freedom [...]

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