Tagged ‘entrepreneurship’

April 13th, 2011By Comments (2)

In this series social entrepreneurs discuss the importance of sharing their big idea and reaching out to others. From  making business partners out of strangers to saving flooded headquarters, our contacts and future contacts routinely prove integral to every aspect of creating and running a social enterprise. ...

April 4th, 2011By , , , , No Comments

The best social innovations can get stalled in the ideas-phase without funds to get started. In this series social entrepreneurs discuss fundraising: the strategies, pitfalls and sweat spent on the way to getting backing and raising money. Raw Art Works ignites the desire ...

February 28th, 2011By , No Comments

The best social innovations can get stalled in the ideas-phase without funds to get started. In this series social entrepreneurs discuss fundraising: the strategies, pitfalls and sweat spent on the way to getting backing and raising money. Michael Gray is an associate for ...

February 23rd, 2011By , Comments (1)

When a good idea is executed poorly, the smart social entrepreneur will often scrap the project and go back to the drawing board. In this series entrepreneurs talk about discarding what isn’t working and starting over in order to maximize social impact. With ...

February 22nd, 2011By Comments (1)

Even the best social innovations can get stalled in the ideas-phase without funds to get started. In this series social entrepreneurs discuss fundraising: strategies, pitfalls and sweat spent on the way to getting backing and raising money. Lewis Hower is the Director of ...

February 11th, 2011By Comments (2)

Search for the hashtag #socent and you’ll find wide-ranging interest in social entrepreneurship on Twitter. Here’s a roundup of a few interesting tweets from the last week: The latest annual Lemelson-MIT Index, which gauges Americans' perceptions about invention and innovation, indicates a need to ...

February 9th, 2011By Comments (1)

Could a jiu-jitsu approach to fast food be the best way to beat it? 24-year-old entrepreneurs David Gumbiner, Deborah Meisel and Ian Sherman of The Udon Project formed The Spoke to beat fast food at its own game. The Spoke launched by winning ...

February 7th, 2011By Comments (3)

PROBLEM: While some applaud the power of social media to create social change, others doubt that information and discussion moves users to action. This fall, Malcolm Gladwell took a strong stand against the role of social media in changemaking, stating that connections formed ...

February 4th, 2011By No Comments

Search for the hashtag #socent and you’ll find wide-ranging interest in social entrepreneurship on Twitter. Here’s a roundup of a few interesting tweets from the last week: Nominations are open now through March 31st for PopTech’s Social Innovation Fellows program. Between ten and ...

January 28th, 2011By No Comments

Search for the hashtag #socent and you’ll find wide-ranging interest in social entrepreneurship on Twitter. Here’s a roundup of a few interesting tweets from the last week: Philanthroper is a newly-launched site modeled after the “daily deal” site GroupOn, but instead of getting ...