Laurie Lane-Zucker

And so I'll play matchmaker and get a success fee and I almost always

work with retainer too.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The percentage varies according to the size of the raise, the type of company, how early stage it is and how much work is going to be involved for me.

Well, we're at a really interesting moment now where our business, my business has expanded in the network, as I said, has expanded to where we're now taking a big step in creating the Impact Entrepreneur Center for Social and Environmental Innovation.

So it's

with some partners who are scattered about, but I'm based here in the Berkshires of Massachusetts.

And we're going to be creating an actual center that's a combination of an incubation and acceleration hub for impact entrepreneurs, a remote learning education hub, and also something that is

the epicenter for what I'm calling a public benefit enterprise zone, which we've gotten quite a lot of press on recently because it's a new model, a new concept for regional economic development that is fueled by social and environmental innovation.

So we're trying to make the Berkshires a regional economy that is all about... Where are the Berkshires?

Sorry.

Berkshire County is the westernmost part of Massachusetts.

I speak at universities.

I've mentioned...

mentor, I've mentored a number of different places.

For the last year or two, it's been through a range of consulting engagements.

Well, there's so many different routes to starting a company, as you know.

What I would recommend, because I am so passionate about triple bottom line business and so aware of the immense environmental and social challenges that we have in the world, that where I would start is look at the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.

There are 17 of them.