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Mats Tunehag has given permission to use this ingenious description of Business as Mission A-Z.  We will share in five weekly blogs, two in August and three in September. This week will be the first in the series: A-E. Larry W. Sharp, BAM Support Specialist, IBEC Ventures Larry.Sharp@ibecventures.com     A – Avodah The Hebrew […]

There is a lot of startup lingo in the startup world, and I have tried to capture here some of the most commonly used terms.  The list is not exhaustive, and the two links will give many more terms. I have built this list from the articles listed below along with my own terms which

There are many components to a startup anywhere in the world, but a business endeavoring to be a Kingdom company achieving the Quadruple Bottom Line has extra requirements.  Those requirements help to ensure the integration of faith and work so that both “mission” and “business” achieve results.  These seven questions are frequently used at the

Some years ago, I stood on a bridge over the Drina River in Gorazde, Bosnia. I was with five others, one a resident and four others visiting from abroad.  We had just observed the carnage of the Balkan war all around the town, and now we looked down at the once-beautiful river, which now reeked

On May 17-19, 2022, the largest coworking conference in the world took place in Seattle.  I wrote about coworking on this blog on October 3, 2021, and at that time I described it as a phenomenon which “…provides proximity to shared values, community workspace, synergy and close amenities. Since 2010, coworking spaces have grown at

Dave Kier writes regularly with all kinds of practical advice based on a successful career in the animal feed business in Iowa, integrated with a vibrant faith.  The IBEC Board of Directors is the beneficiary of his wisdom, and we are blessed by him and all our board members.  Here is a recent “Leadership Tip”

Many of us at least casually review book lists such as Christianity Today’s Yearly Book Awards, New York Times Bestsellers, Bill Gates “Summer Reading List” or one of many others.  Here is a list of five recently published books you might want to consider reading this summer.  I highly recommend each one.   Missions Disrupted

One of the first Business as Mission companies that I got to know about fifteen years ago was a coffee retail operation in a capital city of west Asia, in the former Soviet Republic.  I learned a vital bit of “how to” as I talked to a team member and then visited the operation.  I

Watch for a new book with a publishing date for next month, July 2022.  The title is MISSIONS DISRUPTED: From Professional Missionaries to Missional Professionals, and it includes missiology, business theory, and 27 stories of missional professionals, mostly businesspeople. Here is a taste of one of the stories, just a summary of something more profound

I have always loved to teach using case studies with a visual medium. In early 1964 Marshall McLuhan famous coined the term, “The medium is the message.”  Most simply stated, he meant that the way content is delivered affects how it is perceived. We at IBEC Ventures believe that the integration of faith and work