For a city full of stoic institutions such as the World Bank, IMF, USAID, and not to mention the US government, it is hard to see Washington, DC as an entrepreneur’s playground or home of tomorrow’s innovation. New York and San Francisco have traditionally reserved the title for entrepreneurial “make your dream come true” cities. [...]

About a year ago I faced a crossroads with my startup as I began designing the public face of the project: should I take the “Fake It ‘Till You Make It” approach or go “Radical Transparency” and be very honest and open about my shortcomings. Before I go on, let me quickly define each approach: [...]

Hey everybody, here’s the first batch of essay responses for the Echoing Green Fellowship — your feedback is much appreciated! Download the Essay Questions and Guidelines Here Your Bold Idea International Transparency Solutions is a new for-profit social venture designed to connect investors and the developing world through a suite of due diligence and investment [...]

Click Here to Download The Directions and Examples Click Here to Download my “Innovation Matrix Draft 1″ **Closest Competitor: Self-Auditing, Network Based Approach Used by Kiva and Global Giving** Aspects of Overlap: ____ Working With Same Population __X__ Working On Same Issue Area ____ Using Similar Model of Change How Will Your Approach be Different [...]

A few days ago I announced that I was moving on to “Round 2″ of the Echoing Green Fellowship Application, and need your support. One of the sections on the application is a “Root Cause Analysis” where we have to break down some of the social issues that our venture addresses and prove that we [...]

Incase you missed it, I launched my very first podcast yesterday featuring one of my favorite initiatives: HopePhones.org! HopePhones allows you send in your retired mobile phones so that they may be recycled and used to purchase 2-3 mobile phones that will be dispatched to medical clinics around the world through FrontlineSMS:Medic. It’s a brilliant [...]

Here’s your Daily Brief for December 9th: Women at the BoP: what does it mean when your money belongs to you? (via Perspective 2.0) – Ownership is a critical step toward empowerment at the bottom of the pyramid. Advances in technologies, in this case biometric ID cards, will be the future of solving this problem. [...]

This is a little off topic, but it’s something that’s been driving me nuts the last couple of months. The digital media market has been rapidly evolving over the past decade, and forces de resistance have been scrambling to find ways to adapt. The RIAA played the role of the bully enforcer by suing kids [...]