We’re 28 days in now, so it’s still early days but things are beginning to take shape. One of the interesting asides that we’ve enjoyed is the links and connections that we’ve been given – both people to talk to, and companies or organisations or just stories that we should check out. Some of these [...]

We’ve revamped our web presence after a discussion around web strategy. We want to provide you with the information you’re looking for, and so we’ve created 6 fairly static pages which will tell you:
- What Seven Men is all about
- Why we’re doing this
- How Seven Men will make money and give it away
- Where [...]

To launch, invest in, and nurture businesses and to redeploy profits to help the marginalised in society.

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We’re getting some (offline) feedback on the blog and our web presence so we’ll take some of that board when we work through our web strategy later on this week. I’m hoping to create a FAQs page which should deal with much of what we’re being asked.
Currently wrestling with:
- how to extract cash from startups [...]

One of the reasons I’m now doing what I’m doing is because of a woman in the USA called Catherine Rohr. An ex Wall St v.c. expert, she now works with prisoners pre-parole to teach them about business and then help them start companies or move into employment. Check out the full story at Prison [...]

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Slightly different context, slightly different model, but here is the story of the Acumen Fund which is empowering people to use business to make a difference in Tanzania and across Africa.

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If you work for a company owned by a public set of shareholders, it will be very difficult for you to ever participate in true corporate and social responsibility. The fiduciary duty of the directors of the company to the shareholders should ensure that the majority of their time and efforts and resource is thrown [...]

Today we have refined our purpose, strategy and tactics, ensuring we’re both on the same page as to where we’re going, but also ensuring that we have focus and simplicity in what we do. We need to develop the “elevator pitch” which would help us communicate what it is we are doing in 30 seconds, [...]

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One of the ways we want to use the blog is to give you a bit of insight into other companies that are doing good via business. Blake Mycoskie formed TOMs Shoes and has made a significant impact, selling shoes across the USA, and now in other countries, giving a pair back to a child [...]

If you search for Seven Men on Google you will now find us as the third ranked entry, which is a bit of progress this week. Particularly as most of the other articles are either about films or criminals….
You’ll find we’ve changed the template slightly, allowing one or two minor improvements. We’ve also updated the [...]