Enterprise, entrepreneurship, venture capital, loan financing: if you are typical of the NGO sector – well, okay, if you’re me – such words and phrases send a shiver down the spine. The eyes glaze over and the page is quickly turned. So quite how I found myself agreeing to spend an entire day listening to a variety of speakers talk about these things, I don’t know. Yet I did, and I listened – and besides learning a good deal, found myself rather inspired – though also rather overawed.