Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Had a great meeting last Friday at Stanford with my friend Greg Wolff, Steve Ketchpel, and others at the Reuters Digital Vision Program re: microfinance and several related topics.
For a summary of items discussed, see Steve's RDVP Finance meeting summary.
My areas of interest among these topics:
- MicroEquity: aka "MicroVC", or how to enable equity investment opportunities as an alternative or complement to traditional microfinance
- Human Capital Securitization: creating market liquidity & transparency for new asset classes related to the economic output of individuals and groups of individuals, and their related derivative instruments (such as health or education derivatives)
- SmallBiz Online Toolbox: the collective set of tools needed for small business (and/or microentrepreneurs) to get online; such as setting up websites, online storefronts & marketplaces, shopping carts & payment processing, online accounting systems, email distribution lists & online marketing/advertising, community forums, etc
For more info on these and related subjects, see:
Greg's research on Creative Markets and Community ExchangesSteven's research on Microfinance/MFIs and related Open Source tools
posted by Dave 10/19/2004 10:28:00 AM
