The Weekend Entrepreneur: While At SoCap09...

by Nathaniel Whittemore · 2009-09-06 21:50:00 UTC
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This edition of the weekend entrepreneur includes all sorts of stuff I missed during the past week while at SoCap.

10 New Sites for Socially Responsible Shopping: Mashable puts together another cool list for the conscience consumer.

Live from SoCap: Indian social enterprises head toward sustainability, scalability: I was thrilled to meet ThinkChange India founder Shittal Shah at SoCap and glad to keep being able to link to their great writing.

Women 2.0 at SoCap09: Emily G covers some of the incredible women who took are taking social entrepreneurship to a new level.

Surreptitious in Seattle: There's a New Starbucks in Town, But You Wouldn't Know It: Triple Pundit writes about Starbuck's new franchise model of not branding local stores as Starbucks.

Former MySpace Exec Allen Hurff Working On A Startup Incubator: A new LA-based incubator will soon join the ranks alongside Y-Combinator, TechStars, and others.

Tooble.tv: 5 High School Students Stick It to the Man with Online Video Downloader: A bunch of smart teens push "remix" to the max.

The Future of News: Hyper-Distribution or Hyper-Branding?: frog's Tim Leberecht writes up a pretty brilliant post about the Economist and the power of branding in the chaotic current era of news.

(Photo via Designmind)

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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