Supported by the philanthropist George Soros's Open Society Institute in Budapest, by a $300,000 grant from the United States Information Agency and by private donors, the college offers an interesting fund-raising model in cash-short Russia; it also makes professors more marketable by forcing them to adapt.
Community shares for media publications is an interesting funding model.
Equity crowdfunding is, in short, one of the newest and most interesting funding systems in the world.
If you're among his fans, and want to get in on his way of seeing the emerging economy of the web, you might want to check out a new fund that will soon appear at one of Canada's more interesting fund managers: Altamira.
Gina Gotthilf, Duolingo's VP of Growth and Marketing, told me that the company received a number of interesting funding offers but decided to work with Drive because the firm shared Duolingo's belief in its mission (and because it made a good offer).
That Makers Fund is the culmination of all of these things makes it one of the more interesting debut funds about which we've heard (and we hear about a lot of new venture funds).
It's Amazon's commissioning process that's most interesting: it funds a pilot, puts it online and then waits to see how its customers rate and review the episode before deciding whether to commission a full series.
I have added two interesting mutual funds to our buy-and-hold list.
The code is open-source and has an interesting contributor funding model, too; every merged pull request is rewarded with some of the Bitcoin donated to the project as a whole.
Right now, I am in a pretty good position one interview away from an offer with, what I consider to be, one of the most interesting sustainable fund managers in the UK, the WHEB Group; with the development of perhaps the UK's first mutual sustainable wealth manager in process and the continual development of a fledgling consultancy on climate risk.
