In her September 22nd Triple Pundit piece, Gerri Stengel makes a passionate case for the ability of small businesses to foster communities and social connections, arguing that by supporting local small businesses, we can prevent economic downturns and create jobs. Thriving small business not only help to build...

For me and my team at InVenture, it's a strange time to be entering the microfinance industry.

Recently, the only news about this industry has been bad news: last Spring, for example, a front page New York Times story faulted lenders for profiting off the backs of...

Since launching InVenture this past year, one of the questions I'm most often asked is: Why start your own organization?

And it's a pretty good question. Given the magnitude of attempting to develop a new product, service or solution -- especially one that boldly promises to address major...

Neil MacFarquhar's April 14th piece in the New York Times about the commercialization of the microfinance industry paints a bleak picture of the future of microcredit, a "do-gooder" institution that's recently suffered from a barrage of public controversy. He's right to point out that, in the wrong hands,...