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Sociologists and economists have been writing about it for years -- social capital -- and I am embarrassed to say that I have just started learning about it.
Social capital is a value that media entrepreneurs possess through their ethnic, social, professional, and business networks. It is also a value that they create through their work's impact on society. Below I will show how three entrepreneurs are making it work, in France, Holland, and Spain.
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Hard to value
Investors, the public, and the media entrepreneurs themselves have tended to undervalue their work because it is hard to place a value on their social capital. By contrast, it is easy to value a publication through the advertising and subscription revenue it generates and the capital assets it owns.
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