Success for the Nameless

Last week my friend and Carlson School of Management colleague Dan Kaskubar and I joined forces to form a consulting partnership. Dan and I are both rather obsessed with social enterprise, mission-based for-profits, earned-income non-profits, and all sorts of other ways to use business to add social value.  Dan brings non-profit experience and has lived in Africa.  I bring corporate experience and have lived in India.  We think it’s a great partnership.

Mere days after we decided to work together, we’ve secured our first paying clients.  While I’m very excited, it does launch me into a whole new set of challenges like keeping track of time, saving for taxes, keeping each other updated, and, of course, what to call our company.  We are open to suggestions (feel free to add them in comments here) and have only 2 days left until our (self-imposed) deadline for the best name ever.

Here is Dan and I with one of our favorite people, Mary Jo Kochendorfer, who is the Microfinance Alliance creator and is currently at the Grameen Foundation.