The Daily Entrepreneur: Girls Scouts Kill Entrepreneurship?

by Nathaniel Whittemore · 2009-03-16 19:44:00 UTC
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In a strangely mixed edition of the Daily Entrepreneur, from the meta to the mundane:

  • Girl Scout Cookie Entrepreneur Stymied by Internet Sales Ban: While the Girl Scouts are one of the oldest and best known social enterprises, apparently they can still be behind the times. When one enterprising scout set up a YouTube video and received 700 orders, the national organization put the kibosh, citing "safety." Really? Who knew PayPal and the US Mail could be so dangerous! (Hat tip: Silicon Alley Insider)

  • Should Nonprofits Become Obsolete?: Sean Stannard-Stockton provokes an interesting discussion about whether nonprofits should become obsolete if businesses can allocate similar services more effectively.

  • The Crash and Creative Destruction: BusinessWeek's Steve Hamm echoes many of the macro-economic discussions I've been linking to lately that suggest that we need to be thinking interms of large-scale economing transformation, rather than just making it through a recession.

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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