Social Capital

Congress Makes Permanent the 100% Exclusion on Sales of Qualified Small Business Stock: Founders and Early Investors May Sell Stock Tax-Free, Importance of Meeting QSBS Requirements Heightened As [...]

Unexpected Tax Consequences Could Arise from Certain Early-Stage Investments Increasingly, social impact entrepreneurs and investors are calling for investment structures that provide more [...]

I don’t know any of these folks, but this blog highlights one of the structures for incentivizing impact performance that will be analyzed and for which we’ll have sample language as part of the [...]

A few years ago, I wrote a blog about the need for impact investors to re-think exits.   I’m happy to see that three years later there are a lot of smart people exploring new investment [...]

Impact Investors seek to address the biggest issues of our time through market based approaches. Often, they invest in projects that many would consider the responsibility of government, for [...]

Under current US tax law there is a 100% exclusion from federal tax for any capital gains realized from certain investments in “qualified small business stock” made before December 31, 2013 (and [...]

As impact investing matures as a field, the first attempts at applying formal research methodology to the field’s activities are beginning to appear. One such project debuted last week at [...]

Our client ayzh is kicking off its small purse, BIG CHANGE Indiegogo Campaign today.  Hoping to raise $50,000 to evaluate the impact of its clean birth kit, the JANMA, the campaign runs through [...]