by ldepippo | Feb 14, 2018 | health and well being, Integrated Capital, Social Innovation, sustainable agriculture, sustainable investing
I am sharing an exciting article from an online science blog regarding the plant microbiome (all those cool viruses, bacteria and other micro-organisms such as fungi that are part of all environmental ecosystems). Many new scientific and technical tools such as...
by ldepippo | Jul 25, 2017 | health and well being, High Impact Investing, Inclusive Innovation, Integrated Capital, Social Innovation, sustainable agriculture
Steve Blank is a serial technology entrepreneur, consulting associate professor at Stanford University, and lecturer and National Science Foundation investigator at the University of California in Berkeley and Columbia University. He has written extensively and...
by ldepippo | Apr 13, 2017 | health and well being, High Impact Investing, Inclusive Innovation, Social Innovation, sustainable agriculture
For many years, I had a house in Northwestern Connecticut. I survived a nearly terminal illness, spending almost four months in intensive care and around nine months out of work. Buying this house in the country was a big part of my emotional healing following my...
by ldepippo | Mar 23, 2017 | High Impact Investing, Integrated Capital, sustainable agriculture, sustainable investing
We need to rethink traditional venture capital investment models to solve big problems. The traditional process tends to encourage the largest funding rounds for companies perceived to offer blockbuster returns. That can act as a very narrow filtering process for the...
by ldepippo | Mar 12, 2017 | health and well being, High Impact Investing, Inclusive Innovation, Integrated Capital, Social Innovation, sustainable agriculture, sustainable investing
We live in very chaotic times with extremely divergent perspectives on how to solve important problems such as healthcare, education, poverty, environmental problems and other social issues. It is clear that the overly simplified, and fixed ways that groups of...
by ldepippo | Jan 17, 2017 | health and well being, High Impact Investing, Inclusive Innovation, Integrated Capital, sustainable agriculture, sustainable investing, Uncategorized
Scientists routinely study plants and other natural sources for medical therapies. Eventually they narrow it down to a compound and then if possible, optimize the compound and synthetically produce it. Many of our best known medicines were discovered in this way....
