The Daily Entrepreneur: Stimulus2.0 and Farmer's Markets

by Nathaniel Whittemore · 2009-03-04 19:50:00 UTC
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Stimulus ideas and big thinking in today's Daily Entrepreneur.

  • Stimulus 2.0: It's the Startups, Stupid: LinkedIn founder and uber investor Reid Hoffman writes about his ideal, startup-centric stimulus which would involve small business loans for locally-focused entrepreneurs, abolishing limits on H-1B immigrant visas, and matching funds for angel and venture investors.

  • Understanding Society: Social Entrepreneurs: Professor Daniel Little at the University of Michigan-Dearborn connects successful social entrepreneurs with community organizing acumen and social capital. This is a definition that I like and I wish was discussed more.

  • A Social Capital (Farmer's?) Market: Sean Stannard-Stockton riffs on an article by the Hewlett Foundation's Jacob Harold discussing how the farmer's market - rather than the chaotic financial capital markets - should be a model for philanthropy.

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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