Weekend Entrepreneur Links: Mama's Day Edition

by Nathaniel Whittemore · 2010-05-09 10:32:00 UTC
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Today is the day when we all recognize the importance of the women who raised us, fed us, and put us on the right path. This Weekend Entrepreneur Links is overflowing with some of the creative ways social innovators are honoring their moms, plus some other interesting and important stuff, as well.

To Mama With Love: Epic Change has put together a really well-done site where you can send your mom an e-card in the spirit of mom's working to build a better world for their kids everywhere. The "collaborative online art project" is designed not only to help people share the love with their moms, but to support the work of one particular mom in Tanzania who is trying to improve the local education system.

How do you show your mamma love?: Kari from the Case Foundation writes up a number of mom-themed social innovation sites and special projects. The list is not only a show of how much people love their moms, but how dramatically the internet has expanded people's capacity to create, customize, and share messages.

If You're Looking At The Past To Design The Future, You're Going To Crash And Burn: This post is about basically exactly what the title says. Specifically focused on Nokia, its thesis is that "staying the course" isn't much of an option for anyone these days, and that just looking at past or even current customer demand does not lead to developing innovative products and services.

Philanthropedia & Tactical Philanthropy Advisors Announce Collaboration: Sean over at Tactical Philanthropy is really driving hard to create a fundamentally better philanthropic advisory business. His latest project is a collaboration with the folks at Philanthropedia to create an expert knowledge network to help donors make better decisions by giving them easier access to people who know about specific fields and organizations.

Is an MBA a Plus or a Minus in the Startup World?: The value of our current educational institutions is something I'm not always convinced of. This is an interesting addition to the conversation specifically about MBAs, although I don't agree with the author. I think that management thinking is pretty fundamentally different than startup thinking, although at some point, startup thinking does require a transition and so its hard to say at what stage MBA-style-education becomes really important.

Photo credit: sⓘndy

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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