SoCap08 – Social Capital Markets Conference

I’m getting ready to head to SoCap08 in San Francisco. Here’s a brief blurb on what it’s about – and for those of you who are interested there is a twitter account and tag that you can follow.

Doing well and doing good is the mantra of a new generation of entrepreneurs and the organizations that invest in them. And Social Capital Markets 2008 (SoCap08) is a new event designed to bring together all of the people and organizations with a similar deep passion to change the world through sustainable businesses.

We’re at the cusp of a massive sea-change in the ways that businesses can impact global and local problems. In the past, startup profit-motivated businesses were funded by risk capital, and socially-focused organizations were supported by philanthropy. The profit-oriented were rarely allowed to let a social mission intrude, and the socially-oriented were discouraged from building sustainable businesses. But a new breed of entrepreneurs – and a new mentality of those who fund them – is changing the landscape of business, investing and philanthropy.