A recent article reminded me that an idea that becomes a social enterprise (or a regular start-up) is often rooted in problems that the founder has seen or experienced first-hand. Specifically, I ran across an article titled “The Vision Thing,” a profile of the social enterprise VisionSpring in Entrepreneur magazine’s March 2010 issue. In the [...]
Entries from February 26th, 2010
Eureka Moments: Realizing How to Meet a Need
February 26th, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, socent
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Gift-Giving Shouldn’t Suck
February 23rd, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, VC, guest blog, tech
Today, I am proud to introduce to you SocentVC’s first guest blogger, Brian, who is in the initial stages of founding a start-up focused on bringing innovation to the process of gift-giving. Brian and I are friends from college, and we first began discussing potential start-up ideas in connection with conversations about the Wharton Alumni [...]
Introducing… The Jubilee Project!
February 16th, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, socent, tech
A good buddy of mine from college, Jason, recently told me about a new pet project of his called The Jubilee Project. Its purpose is to encourage people to pursue video projects using their passions or doing something they would never otherwise do for a good cause and to help others. Given that one of [...]
Tags:Jubilee Project·social entrepreneurship·social good·social media·tech·video
Super Bowl Commercial Fail
February 9th, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, tech
During Sunday’s big game, the commercials were (as usual) a big focus of the night. Thankfully, the game itself wasn’t overshadowed by the commercials or by old dudes playing during halftime. Nonetheless, there were a few memorable moments from the night away from the gridiron. There was the controversial showing of the Tim Tebow commercial, [...]
Tags:advertising·Coca-Cola·commercial·fail·Google·marketing·Pepsi·social media·Super Bowl·Tim Tebow
The iPad and Disruptive Innovation
February 2nd, 2010 · View Comments · VC, tech
After hearing about Clayton Christensen’s bestseller The Innovator’s Dilemma and seeing it referenced time and time again, I recently decided to pick up a copy for myself. Christensen, a professor at HBS, begins by discussing the concepts of sustaining technologies versus disruptive technologies. Sustaining technologies are those that “improve the performance of established products, along [...]
Tags:Clayton Christensen·disruptive technologies·HBS·iPad·Kindle·sustaining technologies·tablet·The Innovator's Dilemma
