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Fairweather Consulting serves governments & not-for-profit agencies as:
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The Venture Capital Market is Broken
That’s the conclusion reached by Kevin Drum over at Mother Jones (I know, I know, but you’ll find he is a thoughtful analyst, really). He is reviewing a new report by the Kauffman Foundation: The basic answer, I think, comes early on in the report: Investing in venture capital in the early to mid-1990s generated [...]
Can Kickstarter Solve Urban Problems?
Over at the Design Observer Group, Alexandra Lange has a very thoughtful piece on how to use Kickstarter to fund public projects: Most of the Kickstarter projects under the Design tab congregate around the themes of bikes, cheese, typography and iAnything, yet there is now a subset of urban interventions. A plastic tent for a [...]
Crowdfunding Goes Mainstream
Want proof? How about a big story in the business section of the New York Times? Here’s what it had to say about the recent growth of Kickstarter: “This year marks the year that we’ve seen Kickstarter enter the real world in a number of ways,” said Perry Chen, one of its founders. “At Tribeca [...]
A Consumer’s Guide to MOOCs
Want to compare the various MOOCs (Massive Open Online Course) out there? The Chronicle of Higher Education has a handy guide here. The formats are as varied as the people who tune in. Some consist mainly of lectures recorded on iTunes, while other courses seek to replicate a classroom experience by offering study groups, computer-graded [...]
Why Aren’t We Better At Social Media Marketing?
Well, one reason may be that it is not as useful as it seems. On the other hand, the McKinsey Quarterly has some pointers for improving an organization’s use of social media as a marketing tool: [Today's] chief executive can no longer treat social media as a side activity run solely by managers in marketing [...]
