tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28810014.post1920579735753844634..comments2023-09-12T04:48:26.962-06:00Comments on What's a BOPreneur?: Impatience is a VirtueBopreneurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18394890260699883067noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28810014.post-574606771738106642009-11-27T00:43:34.030-07:002009-11-27T00:43:34.030-07:00Quite an interesting observation. I am no expert b...Quite an interesting observation. I am no expert but let me add my 2 cents on why comparing Acumen's "patient capital" with Kiva's "impatient capital" might be a slightly misplaced observation, even though both happen to be non-profit funds with a BoP focus. <br /><br />The fundamental approach of Acumen's investment - be it equity or debt is institutional capacityAnoj Viswanathanhttp://twitter.com/anojviswanathannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28810014.post-49633743962549674562009-11-24T04:23:57.287-07:002009-11-24T04:23:57.287-07:00Hello,
I found your blog and I think it’s a “blog...Hello, <br />I found your blog and I think it’s a “blog for a better world” and that it can have a highlight in IM Magazine, in a special section for blogs.<br /><br />http://immagazine.sapo.pt/eng/blog2009.html<br /><br />IM Magazine is an international online magazine with readers in over 120 countries that has a unique concept: to cover the best things in the world... for a better world. <br /Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28810014.post-10517215739595259692009-11-23T17:42:26.400-07:002009-11-23T17:42:26.400-07:00Not to be impolite, but I think you've simply ...Not to be impolite, but I think you've simply repeated your premise, that capital has an essence, one that leads it to behave in certain. What I'm trying to say is that capital and markets are not autonomous things, but fundamentally the product of human activity. "Capital" itself is only a word used to describe certain process of value accumulation and exchange between human Yes We Mightnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28810014.post-90475525839770793512009-11-23T15:20:44.599-07:002009-11-23T15:20:44.599-07:00Yes We Might-
Thanks for commenting. My point is t...Yes We Might-<br />Thanks for commenting. My point is that if you deny the characteristic of a thing, it is no longer that thing. If it quacks like a duck....<br />I am not yet ready to assert that patient capital is an oxymoron. It has its place. I am just not as enthusiastic about its emergence as yet another talking point in the social entrepreneurship constellation. As a sound bite, it is an Bopreneurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18394890260699883067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28810014.post-60868986611197530402009-11-23T14:01:58.687-07:002009-11-23T14:01:58.687-07:00Thank you for your thought provoking post, it has ...Thank you for your thought provoking post, it has given me much to think about. But I would also be very interested in learning a bit more about why you think capital has a fundamental "essence" one that, in all circumstances, determines how it behaves. At the risk of relying on "reification" or other tropes I vaguely remember from a college reading of Marxism, in this post Yes We Mighthttp://yeswemight.org/noreply@blogger.com