The Three-Day Weekend Entrepreneur: Memorial Day Edition

by Nathaniel Whittemore · 2009-05-25 18:53:00 UTC
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An Open Letter to 20th Century Business: Umair Haque lets it rip on business that creates no real value. Sorry Jonas Brothers.

Have a Beer for the Social Entrepreneur...Guinness Reveals its New Philanthropy Fund: SocialEarth reports on the new Arthur Guiness Fund for Social Entrepreneurs. I knew I liked that company..

Video of SoCap08: I'm already getting excited for the second annual Social Capital Markets conference, and LinkTV has just finalized production on a short documentary about last year's event.

Capital Factory: Austin-Based Incubator (RWS Interview): Pretty self-explanatory, but always worth keeping track of the wide world of incubators.

The Social Mobile Long Tail Explained: A video of FrontlineSMS founder Ken Banks explaining his theory about why mobile-for-development programs need to be focused on the average user.

The Disruption Talk: Union Square Ventures partner Fred Wilson gives a great talk about disruptive innovation across industries.

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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