Author: David M. Clark

  • A Social Entrepreneur Transforms Education through Technology

    A Social Entrepreneur Transforms Education through Technology

    Updated: 11-13-18 It is hard to fix the education system and fixing the issue has been a long time struggle, dream,and priority for most countries. The United States stays behind in Science and Maths when compared with other developed countries. The performance of students is not even across the states. ThinkCERCA is curriculum program created…

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  • RDVP Seminar: Paul Rankin (10/27/2004)

    Paul Ranking, RDVP fellow ’03, currently at Philips came to talk about his “Voices in your Hand” project, intertwining his general advice on how to succeed with a social venture (specifically, our RDVP projects). He started with a quick personal background, mentioning his Churchill Scholarship to study the impact of the internet on tribal cultures.…

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  • RDVP Finance SIG (10/28/2004)

    Dave McClure, Margarita, Mans, and I met to continue the discussion of the local “MicroVC” model that we started last week. Most of the time focused on the nitty-gritty financial details of the model. We looked at four different general types of investment: Businesses that serve the local economy in an urban setting Businesses that…

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  • Dominican Republic (summary post)

    Since I’ve been traveling and attending a conference, I really haven’t had time to update my blog. I realized there’s a vicious cycle: as more interesting things happen, you have less time to write about them, and then get farther and farther behind. So I’ll put together a quick “summary” entry, that I hope I’ll…

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