Archive for the ‘Social Enterprise’ Category

16 Oct2009
Building Our #SocEnt Tribe on Twitter!

Martin Montero (@Montero) has put together an awesome and comprehensive list of the top social entrepreneurs and related organizations on Twitter, so that all you need to do is click a button to automatically follow everybody on the list! This is an amazing tool to grow and develop the #socent community/tribe on Twitter so that [...]

16 Oct2009
Daily Brief: Update from C.K. Prahalad, African Social Enterprise Forum, FrontlineSMS:Credit

Here’s your Daily Brief for October 16th: New Approaches to New Markets: How C.K. Prahalad’s Bottom of the Pyramid Strategies Are Paying Off (via Knowledge@Wharton) – C.K. Prahalad’s book, The Fortune at The Bottom of the Pyramid, has been one of the most coveted books for those of us advocating business investment in BoP markets. [...]

15 Oct2009
Daily Brief: New Look at African Competitiveness, Social MBAs, B-Lab’s Annual Report

Here’s your Daily Brief for October 15th: A New Look At African Competitiveness (via Brainstorm Magazine) – Dr. Malik Fal of Endeavor South Africa proposes that Africa’s infrastructure, health, and education challenges are not the real issues behind Africa’s economic development. He argues that “competitiveness is more about creating ‘unique’ value that productivity.” Says Fal: [...]

14 Oct2009
Daily Brief: The Simpsons, BMW, Women in Social Enterprise, Portfolios of the Poor

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Here’s your Daily Brief for October 12th through October 13th: Can ‘The Simpsons’ Really Improve Lives in Africa? (via SocialEarth) – This is an awesome look at a startup in Kenya selling “Hand Made African Stone Sculpts” as Simpsons memorabilia. I think it’s awesome what 20th Century Fox saw the social benefit associated with the [...]

14 Sep2009
Daily Brief: The Hype Around Social Enterprise, Why Africa Matters, and the Informal Sector Economy

Here’s your Daily Brief for September 14th: Is Social Enterprise Over-Hyped? (via SocialEarth) – Mike poses an interesting question regarding the hype that surrounds the social enterprise space, and asks where we really are in terms of sector development. He correlates the hype that surrounded the IT movement to that which currently surrounds the social [...]

09 Sep2009
Daily Brief: African Entrepreneurs, Zambikes, and GAO on AGOA

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Here’s your Daily Brief for September 9th: African Entrepreneurs – (via Freakonomics Blog / NYT) – A cool write-up featuring Appfrica’s John Gosier and Magatte Wade of “Adina for Life” beverage company (which is AWESOME!). This blog post profiles three innovators in Africa introducing new solutions to their countries’ and continent’s unique challenges. They all [...]

27 Aug2009

“How Not to Write About Africa” is a piece written by Binyavanga Wainaina, who I had the pleasure of meeting while I was in Nairobi. Nathaniel posted this video on today’s “Daily Entrepreneur” and I felt I should repost it for my readers. I’ve written before of my disappointment in the US News Media for [...]

26 Aug2009

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Here’s your Daily Brief for August 26th: “An idea whose time has come” (via Acumen Fund Blog) – I enjoyed this piece written by Chris Bennett, a rising senior at Stanford and recent participant in Acumen Fund‘s Student Leader Workshop. The Workshop is an awesome opportunity for students to interact with the social capital movement [...]

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