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Impact enterprise incubators and accelerators see a wide range of startups. The most established of these have screened hundreds of prospective businesses. Then there is the Mentor Capital Network, an impact mentorship program, which was formed in 2002 (initially named the William James Foundation). It has mentored over 1000 companies, helping them raise or earn collectively over $1.5 billion.
Few are better situated to provide useful insights into the building of early-stage impact businesses than Ian Fisk, executive director of the Mentor Capital Network. In this program, Impact Entrepreneur’s Laurie Lane-Zucker welcomes Ian Fisk to discuss the traits of successful impact entrepreneurs and the characteristics of successfully formed and scaled impact enterprises. We will also discuss the art and science of mentoring double and triple bottom line businesses in their earliest and most vulnerable stages, and the ways in which impact investors are helping the businesses succeed.
Executive Director, Mentor Capital Network
Ian Fisk directs the Mentor Capital Network — more than 1,200 individuals who have built, managed, invested in, or studied social enterprises. He has supported 1,000+ companies who are changing the way the world does business, both directly and by building the field of social entrepreneurship through Net Impact, SVC, Accelerating the Accelerators, The Impact Accelerator Network and other organizations by encouraging those supporting impact entrepreneurs to learn from each other. Previous roles include designing and managing programs for Wall Street Without Walls, AmeriCorps*VISTA Entrepreneur Corps, Public Allies, KaBOOM!, Youth Service America, and Hands On DC. He founded or co-founded more than a dozen enterprises, some for-profit, some non-profit, and some non-profit on purpose. Most of which lasted for at least a decade. He has a Yale MBA, and teaches improvisation and storytelling for entrepreneurs, and is old enough to have been the 1st internet coordinator for a U.S. Presidential Campaign.
Bio as of June 2021.
Laurie Lane-Zucker is Founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur, PBC, an impact economy business that hosts the Impact Entrepreneur Network — a large, global network of “systems-minded” entrepreneurs, investors, and scholars of social and environmental innovation — and editor and publisher of Impact Entrepreneur, a digital magazine covering the emerging Impact Economy. For over 30 years, Laurie has been a “pioneer” (Forbes) and recognized leader in sustainability, social enterprise, and impact investing. Laurie was the founding Executive Director of the international environmental organization, Orion Society, which publishes the celebrated Orion Magazine, as well as the founder of a global sustainability think-tank, the Triad Institute, and Hotfrog, a Founding B Corporation, GIIRS Pioneer Company, and the first company ever to complete an equity transaction on an impact investment exchange. Laurie is the bestselling and multiple award-winning publisher and editor of books and magazines on sustainability and social impact — having worked with such acclaimed authors as Wendell Berry, Barry Lopez, Terry Tempest Williams, and David James Duncan — and the author of numerous articles on entrepreneurship and impact investing. Laurie is contributing author to the academic textbook from World Scientific, Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications. His new book, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy, was published by Berrett-Koehler in September 2026, with global distribution by Penguin Random House.