Beautiful Norwegian traveling partners and irreverent Buddhist monks.  Connections to people and place.  Burnout.  Long distance travel by motorcycle through Southeast Asia.  Awareness of the present moment.  Vibrant, exotic cultures.  Luck.  Deliberate intent.  Christine and I were talking about these and the other factors that go into starting a business.



Christine Haskell, founder of Social Ventures Labs, consults with businesses that consider their community contribution as part of their product or service.  She profiles mission-driven companies bringing into focus the practices and players in the social venture space that make money by doing the right thing.  Here is her profile of Pangaea.

Conversation is a skill, and Christine has it.