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Do You Believe in Enriching the Lives of Entrepreneurs Around the World?

The Relentless Foundation and New York Entrepreneur Week (NYEW) have been formed around a single belief: entrepreneurs change the world.

In less than the span of a year, New York Entrepreneur Week has become a powerful platform and voice for entrepreneurs. From innovative start-ups to seasoned businesses, we have brought entrepreneurs together to be counted as a force of change in a challenging economic climate. With your help, we have catapulted this movement into an event attended by over ten thousand entrepreneurs!

But we’re ready to do more. The Relentless Foundation, a 501c3 non-profit, needs your help to propel the entrepreneurial experience to the next level of national and global events that will unite and inspire all entrepreneurs to make a greater difference.

A Journey to India: Opportunities to Connect Networks

I'm hoping to participate in a very unique trip to India for social entrepreneurs from JustMeans, and by participating hope to bridge networks, form new partnerships, and spur collaborations for as many in the NetSquared Community as I can.  Because my goal for this trip is very much centered on the work and inspiration of this group of changemakers, I wanted to share my application here.  You are invited and welcomed (and hugely thanked) for any support you give (by voting or commenting) as well as providing feedback about how I can help you!

India Social Entrepreneurship Journey, February 2010 Contest: Help me help you!

Driving Mobile Activism Adoption

How can social entrepreneurs drive the adoption of their mobile activism tools? Participants in Ashoka’s Social Entrepreneurship Twitter chat identified several key themes. Broadly speaking, the key drivers of adoption fall into three categories: design, distribution and context.

BusinessWeek searches for social entrepreneurs

businessweek logo social entrepreneursBusinessWeek launched its "search for the most promising social entrepreneurs in the U.S." to find the top  companies aiming to both turn a profit and solve social problems.

Learn more & Nominate a Company!

Global Social Benefit Incubator Competition on Social Edge - Up to 20 will win US$25,000 Scholarship - Enter by Jan 16 2009

Are you a social entrepreneur or the leader of a social venture, or do you know someone with a social venture that could benefit from capacity building, in-depth consultation on their business plan and mentoring by Santa Clara University faculty and Silicon Valley start-up veterans?

The Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI™) is a capacity building program for leaders of social benefit enterprises run by Santa Clara University’s Center for Science, Technology and Society.

Enter now for a chance to attend.

Interview: Make Your Mark, Global Entrepreneurship Week!

global entrepreneurship week logoIt's Global Entrepreneurship Week, so I have the inside scoop from Chris Spavin, a member of the Make Your Mark team working with partners to deliver GEW, catalyze events overseas, and assist the campaign's development abroad.  Chris believes, "there is so much untapped potential in people and sometimes all we need is a simple catalyst."  Learn more about the work below in Chris' own words and find out how you can get involved!

100 Innovators - the world's most important story has started to unfold

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch): 

This decade, the impacts of leading social entrepreneurs will explode. It's the world's most important story, and Innovatorz.org will tell it. We produce and distribute killer online media for award winning social entrepreneurs.

Type of expertise needed: 
Management Expertise
We need a startup guru for advice on project management, fund raising (goal: $200K), business planning. Guidance from people who've been through this process.
Type of expertise needed: 
Technical Expertise
Our platform is built on Wordpress MU. We need the assistance of a PHP coder with expertise in the Wordpress platform and someone with expertise in server administration.
Type of expertise needed: 
Marketing/Media Expertise
We want to create as much visibility as possible for the social innovators we work with and the niche online media properties we create. We have a marketing plan, but we would love the input of an online marketing/buzz creating genius.
Technology Vision: 

We want to make it dead simple for social entrepreneurs to integrate amazing online media into their sites and to find an audience interested in their stories. Our media platform is built on Wordpress MU, SimplePie RSS, and a variety of web services like Amazon S3. We use a process called “assisted podcasting” to enable even the least tech saavy, busiest social innovator to tell their personal story online by recording podcasts with their ordinary telephone.

We are developing a system enabling organizations to not only create their own content for their web sites, but to simultaneously pull in relevant feeds and stories from other organizations and sites.

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