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Last week, I, alongside a few Santa Fe Innovates’ colleagues, attended the SOCAP Virtual Conference. It was an opportunity for social impact investors, entrepreneurs, and overall champions to (virtually) join together for … [Read more...] about Learnings from SOCAP Virtual 2020

Loneliness continues to increase in workplaces and communities, with 40 percent of American adults experiencing feelings of loneliness (Murthy, 2018). Many who are employed, including CEOs, report feeling the same way. … [Read more...] about Social Entrepreneurs Are the New Social Capital Builders

The Business Roundtable (BRT) exclusively represents chief executive officers (CEOs) of America’s leading companies. A little over a year ago, the BRT announced a statement on corporate purpose that was described by the … [Read more...] about Stakeholder Capitalism – Falling Short of the Promise

Given that Santa Fe Innovates offers a business accelerator program for a startup business to accelerate and grow, it should come as no surprise that we want to assist local startups in succeeding. Small businesses are what … [Read more...] about Resources for New Mexican Startups to Succeed

Santa Fe Innovates is building a mentorship network to work closely with the entrepreneurs in our business accelerator program. We recently provided mentors and advisory council members with a program update and discussed our … [Read more...] about An Update on Santa Fe Innovates’ Mentorship Network

You have an idea, and you want to execute upon it. You want to do something game-changing. But how can you change the game if you’re the only player? Well, you can’t. As an entrepreneur, it’s hard to make progress in … [Read more...] about Santa Fe Innovates’ Approach to Community

A 30-Year Perspective on Startup Culture Part Two: Scaling up and Sustaining Long-Term Growth In my companion article on startup culture (published separately on this blog), I discussed what I referred to as phase one … [Read more...] about Scaling up and Sustaining Long-Term Growth

A 30-Year Perspective on Startup Culture Part One: Starting from Scratch It’s hard to ignore the allure of working for startups – especially if you’ve spent some time in the corporate world as I have. There’s an energy … [Read more...] about Starting from Scratch

Last week, we joined MK Mendoza, host of KSFR's Wake Up Call, for a conversation about Santa Fe Innovates, our social entrepreneur accelerator program and work to put an added spark in Santa Fe's startup and tech community. … [Read more...] about From KSFR: Santa Fe in Prime Position for Growing Tech Sector

Ideation is the process of developing the foundation of a business as part of a continuous innovation framework. Using lean startup principles, this means determining the feasibility, desirability, and viability of new … [Read more...] about The Five Most Valuable Things to Do in Ideation