The Daily Entrepreneur: Ecosystems, Hybrid Structures, Trouble

by Nathaniel Whittemore · 2009-07-09 17:37:00 UTC
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Social entrepreneurship, MIT, and the eco-system: Rizwan Virk writes about the MIT $100K business plan competition, noting how that while there was a new addition of a "Development Track," winners in other categories were creating significant social benefit as well.

Hybrid non-profit/for-profit structure key to success for Indian social venture: Change.org reader and blogger Muhammed writes about how one Indian social entrepreneurship venture structured itself legally to have both for-profit and non-profit benefits.

Lending for health or borrowing trouble?: Jeff Trexler stirs up a hornets nest reporting on a Twitter converstaion between Change.org Global Health blogger and expert Alanna Shaikh and Lend4Health founder Tori Tuncan. This is an absolutely essential read.

Nathaniel Whittemore is the founder of Assetmap. Previously he was the founding director of the Northwestern University Center for Global Engagement.
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