Potential investors might like you more if your mission is inextricably tied to your business model, the better to ensure you can keep your impact intact, even after your funders exit. Called Lasting Impact: The Need for Responsible Exits, it analyzes constructive approaches impact investors take to ensure they not only get a return on their money when they leave, but also help the entrepreneurial venture’s social mission to stay intact. Specifically, the report focuses on tactics impact investors use in four stages of the investment life cycle: pre-investment, at the time of investment, during investment and at the time of exit. According to Mudaliar, investors spend a lot of time addressing the issue of lasting impact starting in the earliest days of the process. These metrics indicate both commercial and impact success.”

Source: Forbes January 21, 2018 17:03 UTC