Social Entrepreneurship

Nonprofit certifies businesses that do good

By Diane Mastrull Inquirer Staff Writer For their first act, they built the wildly successful sports-apparel company And 1. From a converted house in Berwyn, And 1 alumni Jay Coen Gilbert and husband and wife Bart and Chrissy...

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Reblogging joffi: Source: vintagefashionphoto: 1960 This photo...

Reblogging joffi : Source: vintagefashionphoto : 1960 This photo reminds me of the Camelot era of President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. I was alive then, which gives me a certain perspective on how things...

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More 'Patient Capital' for Social Ventures - BusinessWeek

An increasing number of venture investors are hunting for small companies that could yield social benefits as well as high profits sounds like an unlikely candidate for venture capital. Ric Scalzo, a medical herbalist, founded...

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Networking site Kiltr secures funding

Published Date: 22 November 2009 A SCOTTISH online business social networking start-up, Kiltr, has secured finance from business angel Par Equity and the Scottish Seed Fund. The founders, Brian Hughes Halferty and Stewart...

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How to Promote a Small Business on the Web

Cheap Internet Marketing Tools for Independent Businesses For small businesses, the internet can provide many cheap web marketing tools; promoting a small business on the web can be as easy as social networking and blogging....

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Students launch Malawi challenge

STUDENTS from The King’s Academy in Middlesbrough have launched a new UK-wide enterprise competition that will be judged by BBC Dragons Duncan Bannatyne and Doug Richard. The ‘One Big Idea’ competition, that will address...

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On Leadership: Dead philanthropy?

In an era when business leaders are retooling their mission and methods to be more socially responsible, and social entrepreneurs are using market mechanisms to solve social problems, is corporate philanthropy still relevant?...

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Entrepreneurship gets a deeper purpose

A. Thomas Loy wants to add another bottom line to business.He calls it the double bottom line: Financial profits are definitely a goal, but so is helping the poor and underprivileged. It's a form of business with a new name,...

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College offers businesses social media class

Published November 21, 2009 LAKE JACKSON — In a world where technology is used constantly, businesses can take advantage of social sites Facebook and Twitter, and Brazosport College aims to help them do that. For $49, the...

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Carlsson Chee edited BarCampSingapore4

268. Steven Goh|http://www.mig33.com| CEO and co-founder, Massive mobile community 269. Alon Sobol|http://www.mig33.com| VP Product, Massive mobile community 270. Carlsson Chee |Art & Managing Director ofRephlexion Designs|...

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