Bill Gross is the founder of the IdeaLab business incubator, with sales exceeding $435 million. It is one only tech incubator that survived the dotcom crash in its original form. IdeaLab has built many different ventures, such as:
· GoTo/Overture (became Yahoo Search Marketing) – paid inclusion search engine that was renamed Yahoo! Search Marketing after […]
Posted on May 7th, 2008 by admin
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Melinda Gates (the wife of Microsoft founder Bill Gates) recently gave a talk about the future of social enterprise at an event organized by the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative. Here are some of the highlights from the article:
According to a recent study, people who spend money on others are happier than people who […]
Posted on April 30th, 2008 by admin
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Kiva is one of the greatest uses of the Internet to do good. Kiva is an online microlending service that allows people anywhere to lend money directly to entrepreneurs in developing countries around the world. Kiva’s mission is to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty.
Kiva works to qualify […]
Posted on April 16th, 2008 by admin
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If you work with a 501c3 non-profit organization that provides a community service to help the world in areas such as science and technology, education, global public health, the environment, youth advocacy, and the arts, […]
Posted on April 16th, 2008 by admin
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According Jim Collins and Jerry Porras in Build to Last, the “tyranny of the OR” leads businesses to feel that they can only choose one option or the other, but not both, such as:
Change OR stability,
Conservative OR bold,
Low cost OR high quality,
Creative autonomy OR consistency and control,
Invest in future OR do well in short-term,
Make progress […]
Posted on April 15th, 2008 by admin
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In Built to Last, the authors identified “Visionary” companies which met very rigorous standards of sustained greatness. The authors did not find any specific ideological content as being essential in these visionary companies. However, the authors did find that it was essential that the companies have a core ideology of some sort, and […]
Posted on April 14th, 2008 by admin
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In preparation to write the book Built to Last, authors Jim Collins and Jerry Porras and a team at Stanford University researched highly successful (“visionary”) and less successful companies for six years. Their research debunked many myths commonly held in the business world. The following are some of the myths and findings that I found […]
Posted on April 14th, 2008 by admin
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One of the focuses of this blog is “social enterprise”. My good friend, Ward Andrews, recently asked me to define this term and mission of my blog. A social enterprise is a business (for-profit or non-profit) which has a socially driven mission. For example, Adoption.com, is a website which operates a […]
Posted on June 20th, 2007 by admin
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My favorite scripture is James 1:27 (KJV) “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.” I believe that the point of religion is not to spend a lifetime going to church or studying […]
Posted on June 9th, 2007 by admin
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Recently, a large adoption organization hired a new president. A few months ago I had the pleasure of having dinner with him and several members of his staff while attending an adoption tradeshow in Texas. I stick out a little in the child welfare community because of my conservative political views in a […]
Posted on June 8th, 2007 by admin
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