{"id":993,"date":"2020-07-09T04:32:37","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T04:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.avantfaireim.com\/?p=993"},"modified":"2020-07-09T09:20:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T09:20:27","slug":"impact-entrepreneurship-in-a-world-of-change-startup-impact-summit-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avantfaireim.com\/zh\/impact-entrepreneurship-in-a-world-of-change-startup-impact-summit-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact &#038; Entrepreneurship in a World of Change @ Startup Impact Summit 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startmeup.hk\/event\/startmeuphk-festival-2020-startup-impact-summit\">https:\/\/www.startmeup.hk\/event\/startmeuphk-festival-2020-startup-impact-summit<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Catherine Chen, founder and managing partner of AvantFaire, moderated a very lively panel at the Startup Impact Summit 2020 held on 8 July 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The discussion, titled \u201cImpact & Entrepreneurship in a World of Change\u201d, was highly engaging and succeeded to present the various opportunities and challenges that entrepreneurs face the world over. The panelists, who are the up-and-coming thought leaders in their respective fields, discussed how to build impactful, scalable, and resilient businesses from the ground up. The key takeaways of the discussion were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>the determining factor to attract capital to fund new ventures is the presence of a bustling ecosystem enabling knowledge building and transfer, flow of ideas, and collaboration<\/li><li>forward-looking and flexible working environments have proven to be an asset in challenging times like the COVID-19 pandemic<\/li><li>Impact investing looks at markets and future trends from a brighter, more positive perspective, which enables to more effectively capture the J-Curve potential value creation<\/li><li>businesses that integrate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) aspects into their enterprise risk management system tend to be more resilient, and thrive also in times of crisis (e.g. COVID-19). These businesses tend to attract capital no matter what is happening in the world, and their quest for good and brave actions shines through in difficult times<\/li><li>Investors look at Theory of Change and how to measure it, and use this is as a primary screening to understand what measures companies have in place to cope with change<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you to all the panelists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/lwazi-wali-7790a613\/?originalSubdomain=za\">Lwazi Wali<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/amranaidoo\/?originalSubdomain=sg\">Amra Naidoo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/phivannguyen\/?originalSubdomain=vn\">Nguyen Phi Van<\/a> to make this happen!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A big thank you also to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jochanyy\/\">Jo Chan<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/angelhub.io\/\">AngelHub<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whub.io\/\">WHub<\/a> communities!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy to connect via LinkedIn @<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/authwall?trk=gf&trkInfo=AQFQTC-GoOKyugAAAXMx0XtYsUoE8e28EqkZhXcnRQVnAZCLHER7ECx2WYh_1X4ifP3GWMuZCiMHq_WX24YIo-gqRL9LKeCPskVVCd4DAwMWXu6EVLbKgLqU3ro1AVuzO-G1-5s=&originalReferer=https:\/\/www.google.com\/&sessionRedirect=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fcompany%2Favantfaireim\">AvantFaire<\/a> or @<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/catherine-c-400965b3\/\">\u9648\u94a6\u82e5<\/a> for any questions we did not manage to answer during the Q&A session!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.avantfaireim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Pic_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1001\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.avantfaireim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Pic_3.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.avantfaireim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Pic_3-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source: https:\/\/www.startmeup.hk\/event\/startmeuphk-festival-2020-startup-impact-summit) Catherine Chen, founder and managing partner of AvantFaire, moderated a very lively panel at the Startup Impact Summit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[40,39,38,42,35,37,36,41],"a3_pvc":{"activated":false,"total_views":0,"today_views":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avantfaireim.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avantfaireim.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avantfaireim.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avantfaireim.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avantfaireim.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.avantfaireim.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avantfaireim.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avantfaireim.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avantfaireim.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avantfaireim.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}