May 2012
64 posts
Walkonomics - How walkable is your street? - About
See on Scoop.it - Yellow Boat Social Entrepreneurism Walkonomics - How walkable is your street? Walkonomics combines Open Data with Crowdsourcing to map how pedestrian-friendly each street is. Use the website to check how walkable your street is and add your own rating. http://www.walkonomics.com/w/index.php/about What is the WalkoBot? The WalkoBot is an automatic system that rates the...
Kickstarted: my conversation with Kickstarter...
See on Scoop.it - Yellow Boat Social Entrepreneurism Kickstarter is not just a startup— it’s part of an important shift away from the industrial manufacturing era & toward the maker economy. excerpts below are from: http://gigaom.com/2012/05/22/kickstarter-founder-perry-chen-intervie/ People value experiences more than they value products. When you buy local food, you’re buying...
Behind the scenes of a failed Kickstarter project
See on Scoop.it - Yellow Boat Social Entrepreneurism A little more than half of the projects on Kickstarter fail. But understanding those failures can help others avoid the same fate. So, I spoke to one of the founders of a failed project to understand what lessons others might be able to learn. So a few possible lessons one can draw from the Dawsons’ experience is that funding a Kickstarter is...
StartSomeGood: The Blog: This Week in Social... →
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Entrepreneur Magazine is hosting a contest for young entrepreneurs between the ages of 18 and 26 that are currently enrolled in college. The College Entrepreneur of 2012 Contest is looking for great business ideas that are making a positive impact. How are you bringing light to your…
4 Ways To Use Pinterest To Encourage Corporate...
See on Scoop.it - Yellow Boat Social Entrepreneurism Pinterest is a great marketing tool, but businesses should also start thinking about it as a unique way to promote corporate volunteerism. How does Pinterest work as a tool for employee volunteer promotion? Unlike Twitter and Facebook, images are key to Pinterest. This means that in order to successfully promote and encourage volunteering...
Grockit Wants to Build a Pinterest for Learning
See on Scoop.it - Yellow Boat Social Entrepreneurism Grockit’s latest product re-configures online content such as YouTube videos, Wikipedia entries and ebooks into ordered lesson plans. So how does Learnist beat Google as a learning tool? Or Pinterest, for that matter? Grockit founder Farbood Nivi argues that expert curation helps avoid the misinformation, hacked-together how-to articles...
Israeli Nobel Prize Winner: Entrepreneurship is...
See on Scoop.it - Yellow Boat Social Entrepreneurism What does a Nobel Prize winner has to say about entrepreneurship? A summary of Dr Shechtman’s views on entrepreneurship, excerpted from: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ricardogeromel/2012/04/27/israeli-nobel-prize-winner-entrepreneurship-is-the-only-way-to-maintain-peace/ The only way to maintain long term peace in any country is by...
What Makes VegasTech Unique: Updated | Las Vegas...
See on Scoop.it - Yellow Boat Social Entrepreneurism http://www.vegasstartups.com/2012/05/19/what-makes-vegastech-unique-updated Las Vegas Startups, What Makes VegasTech Unique: Updated, Las Vegas Startups… What Makes VegasTech Unique: Updated Written by: Rick “Thanks to Rick Duggan, David Gosse, Jennifer Gosse, Gian Brown, Mike Manzano, Shaun Swanson, and Mark Johnson for input. If...
Urban Farming | Rust Wire
See on Scoop.it - Yellow Boat Social Entrepreneurism http://rustwire.com/about/ https://www.facebook.com/rustwire http://rustwire.com/category/urban-farming/ Sharing successes. Debating Problems. Connecting advocates. Pittsburgh. Cleveland. Detroit. Youngstown. St. Louis. Cincinnati. Buffalo. Milwaukee. More than a dozen cities; the same set of problems. This site is intended to consolidate...
Looking For Optimism About the Economy? Ask a...
See on Scoop.it - Yellow Boat Social Entrepreneurism 72% of startup CEOs are optimistic about economic growth over the next year. See on mashable.com
Filipino in Silicon Valley ... and Vegas Tech in...
See on Scoop.it - Yellow Boat Social Entrepreneurism Rappler’s Maria Ressa sits down with Filipino Silicon Valley entrepreneur Dado Banatao. I recently have started trying to link co-working spaces, StartUps and StartUp Weekends in Manila, Cebu and Mindanao to VegasTech and StartUps in the emergent tech sectors here in Las Vegas. https://www.facebook.com/SxVegas Austin via Manila and...
Investing in Social Entrepreneurship: A $1...
See on Scoop.it - Yellow Boat Social Entrepreneurism ‘Paradigm Shifts & Entrepreneurship: Investing in Social Solutions vs. Symptoms’ blog post by Per Grankvist. http://www.csrwire.com/blog/posts/407-paradigm-shifts-entrepreneurship-investing-in-social-solutions-vs-symptoms?utm_source=nwsalrt&utm_medium=email&utm_content=051612&utm_campaign=newsletter...
FoodRevolution-SchoolEBook.pdf The Official...
See on Scoop.it - Yellow Boat Social Entrepreneurism student toolkit Youth today are inheriting a poor diet and global epidemic of diet-related diseases. This is your chance to demand better food education in schools. Take action and register your school or youth organisation to join students around the world standing up for real food. Don’t forget to download our ‘30 Ideas to Start a Food...
50 Awesome Women Entrepreneurs on Twitter
See on Scoop.it - Yellow Boat Social Entrepreneurism Here is a list of 50 awesome women entrepreneurs you should be following on Twitter. All of these ladies have built thriving businesses, powerful brands and a strong online presence. They have clarity around their message … http://www.shebrand.com/50-awesome-women-entrepreneurs-on-twitter/ See on shebrand.com
Three Years of Kickstarter Projects
See on Scoop.it - Yellow Boat Social Entrepreneurism Almost 50,000 projects have sought financing on Kickstarter since the site began on April 28, 2009. About half successfully reached their fund-raising goals. Each dot represents how much a project raised by its deadline. See on nytimes.com
Startup Weekend Cebu participants solving...
See on Scoop.it - Yellow Boat Social Entrepreneurism “It’s no secret that the Philippines has a growing startup scene with talented designers and developers.” http://sgentrepreneurs.com/news-stop/2012/05/15/startup-weekend-cebu-participants-solving-real-world-problems/ 1st Place – WaitKnowMore. A mobile SMS service that alerts you when your queue number is reaching. It sends out an...
Downtown event seeks to conjure environmentally...
See on Scoop.it - Yellow Boat Social Entrepreneurism For one weekend, a downtown street block typically overcome by blight and empty storefronts was transformed into a budding area of businesses, resources and classes for the community. http://www.lvrj.com/view/downtown-event-seeks-to-conjure-environmentally-friendly-commerce-151490095.html?ref=095 Though the pop-up businesses at Build a Greener...
Meet-A-Hero | Discovering and sharing the...
See on Scoop.it - Yellow Boat Social Entrepreneurism #ThoughtfulTourism Meet a Hero is Meet Manila’s initiative fueling our main orbit. Our mission is to find and feature well-deserving Filipino citizens who lead for a good cause. These game-changers are self-driven by their knowledge, motivated by their passion, and are not afraid to fight for what they believe in. As a tribute to...
Startup Compass Benchmark your Startup's KPIs...
See on Scoop.it - Yellow Boat Social Entrepreneurism Make better product and business decisions Benchmark your Startup’s KPIs against more than 10,000 Internet Startups Allocate Resources, Diagnose Problems, Align your Team & Measure Progress https://www.facebook.com/StartupGenome http://blog.startupcompass.co/ About The Startup Genome aims to reduce the massive failure rate of...
Transformational Entrepreneurship: Where...
See on Scoop.it - Yellow Boat Social Entrepreneurism The slow decline of industrial manufacturing in developed nations and recent failures of financial capitalism across the globe have sent us searching for a new model of economic growth. I see the two movements of Technology Entrepreneurship and Social Entrepreneurship beginning to converge into a promising solution. An increasing number of...
