The Weekend Entrepreneur: Technology (and China) Galore

by Nathaniel Whittemore · 2009-08-30 22:09:00 UTC
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Foo Camp 2009: Benetech founder Jim Fruchterman discusses his experience with Foo Camp, an unconference for techy folks (and a social entrepreneur or two).

Show Me the Money! Using Your Capital To Save The World At This Year's SOCAP Conference: SoCap made it to the front page of the Huffington Post this week based on this article.

Does Social Entrepreneurship Exist in China?: An important, important question.

Free the H-1Bs, Free the Economy: Another post from the tech world arguing that enabling more highly-trained immigrants to work and start companies in the US is a good thing. (Yup)

New Technology Incubation Scheme To Fill 6-digit Funding Gap: I'm always fascinated to see how other countries are trying to facilitate startups and the Singapore Entrepreneurs blog has been a consistenly awesome source for information.

Non-profits test out new analytics software for social investing: VentureBeat writes up the Acumen Fund initiated, Salesforce updated Pulse system.

(Photo: Nat'l Geographic)

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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