The Weekend Entrepreneur: Meaning-Driven Businesses (and Failed URL Shorteners)

by Nathaniel Whittemore · 2009-08-09 23:27:00 UTC
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Why I'm going to SoCap09: This post from ThinkChange India editor Shital Shah is probably my favorite of the series of posts like it because it gets into the questions of who gets to be a part of our movement.

A Movement for Meaning-Driven Business?: frogdesign keeps up the awesome and continues to push the new moment in capitalism.

tr.im Throws in the Towel: I usually might not cover someone going out of business, but a web company admitting that it doesn't have a clear path to revenue is such a sign of the new, more realistic moment we seem to be entering that it's worth noting.

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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