The world of social media has exploded in the past 2 or 3 years, but I was reminded yesterday of one of the first popular blogging / social networking sites yesterday from the beginning of this decade, Xanga. A good friend of mine wrote a blogpost yesterday reminiscing about the days when she used to [...]
Entries from November 30th, 2009
A New Shopping Model, Just in Time for Black Friday
November 25th, 2009 · View Comments · VC, tech
Have you ever needed to buy something that you can’t get cheaply on Amazon or another online retailer, or just needed to purchase something quickly without having to wait for it to ship? Of course you have. It’s the way that shopping worked before the online era! But now that you’ve gotten used to comparison [...]
Tags:Black Friday·brick-and-mortar·internet·milo.com·shopping·Wharton
Impact Investing: A Call to Action
November 24th, 2009 · View Comments · VC, socent
…………. A little less than a year ago, Monitor Institute, an affiliate of the consulting firm Monitor Group, released a comprehensive report on the current state of the impact investing world. If you have read my post regarding the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), or the Antony Bugg-Levine’s article in Beyond Profit magazine but want [...]
Tags:ecosystem·impact investing·Monitor Institute·rockefeller
Hydros Bottle. Clean Water. Anywhere. Anytime.
November 23rd, 2009 · View Comments · socent
Earlier this fall, I discovered that some of my fellow 2009 graduates from Penn had started a social venture called Hydros Bottle. Now that I’ve established a blog platform with a focus on social entrepreneurship, I’ve decided to take this opportunity to write about their startup, which has been featured in the Dell Social Innovation [...]
Tags:consumer product·Hydros Bottle·social entrepreneurship·water·Wharton
Chrome OS, A Game Changer?
November 19th, 2009 · View Comments · tech
As many of you probably know, Google officially announced the arrival of its Chrome operating system this morning. Now, there are plenty of people who can’t wait to start using it, and just as many who pooh-pooh the launch of an OS that basically just operates in the cloud. The thing about Chrome OS is [...]
Helping or Hurting?
November 18th, 2009 · View Comments · socent
Yesterday, I was reading a post by my friend Chris Horst of Hope International, the microfinance institution, titled “How Then Shall We Help?” It struck a chord with me because its main topic was one covered by the microfinance and social venture professionals who came to speak at my class at Wharton during my last [...]
Tags:Hope International·impact·microfinance·social entrepreneurship
Understanding New Technologies
November 16th, 2009 · View Comments · tech
With today’s torrid pace of technological advancement, it can be pretty easy to become overwhelmed with how much new stuff is out there. On the other hand, there are some things you see all the time, but have never realized what they were. Ever wondered what those orange buttons like are, for example? These are [...]
Tags:CommonCraft·RSS·technology
