If you’re serious about global social innovation, there's a new book that opens a window into how it happens, why it works, what "stuff" you need to succeed at it and what it feels like.
Here are a few of the lessons I’ve learned as I stumbled my way through the world of social innovation. I hope some of these prove useful as you travel your own path.
Watch as Rajesh Anandan intimately shares his own journey from the private sector into one of the largest aid organizations on earth. His difficulties with innovation, his recommendations to startups working with multinationals, and secrets on how to hit scale are all revealed in this interview.
Economists have it all wrong. The only effective large-scale answer to extreme poverty is to stimulate rapid scalable growth. Here are three ways to end poverty and limitless opportunities for you to participate.
Our Astronaut/Fighter Pilot Scribe tells the story of crashing & burning (literally!) and how this changed the way he looks at risk & innovation forever.
Watch as media mogul, Waylon Lewis, shares proven strategies for building a loyal audience, sticking to your guns (for better or worse) and risking it all to do the right thing.
Five years ago, Steve Bachar and I decided to invest in companies capable of transforming the livelihoods of at least 100 million customers living on $2 a day, generating at least $10 billion in annual revenues and earning sufficient profits to attract commercial financial investment. There was only one problem. We couldn’t find any.
Big problems tend to offer a poor *perceived* risk/reward ratio, you can spend a lifetime working for social change with seemingly little progress. Actually, big problems can generate big returns.
Watch: Startup guru Robert Reich talks about how to raise money, how not to communicate your idea, why "sexy doesn't mean easy," and what you should never do as an entrepreneur.
Watch this interview as Chris Shipley weaves in and out of the "Mythology of Silicon Valley," to what it was like to be a tech mogul when 90% of the industry was male dominate, to her more personal struggles and victories with feeling like a "misfit."
Over 80% of Kenya's forests are now gone. Watch this video and see how one entrepreneur is changing the game for her country, and potentially for deforestation across Africa.
In depth conversation with the Founder of Wordpress, Matt Mullenweg, on the beginning of Wordpress , raising money and the mistakes made along the way.