A Capitalist's Dilemma

From Emergent Africa Sun Nov 25 2012, 14:31:00

A recent Adafruit highlight:

A Capitalist's Dilemma. Clayton Christensen's one of our favorite business thinkers...

...cash hoards in the billions are sitting unused on the pristine balance sheets of Fortune 500 corporations. Billions in capital is also sitting inert and uninvested atprivate equity funds.

Capitalists seem almost uninterested in capitalism, even as entrepreneurs eager to start companies find that they can't get financing. Businesses and investors sound like the Ancient Mariner, who complained of "Water, water everywhere -- nor any drop to drink."

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