This past weekend at the StartingBloc Institute for Social Innovation, I met Matt Kochman, who is the founder of a social venture start-up called M.E.S.S. Express, or “Moving Every Student Safely.” Started at Cornell, where Kochman used to be a student, M.E.S.S. Express is a company whose goal is to provide prepaid transportation plans for [...]
Entries Tagged as 'social entrepreneurship'
Send MESS Express to the Unreasonable Institute!
March 10th, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, VC, socent
Tags:Matt Kochman·MESS Express·socent·social entrepreneurship·StartingBloc·Unreasonable Institute
StartingBloc Insights into Socent and Social VC
March 8th, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, VC, nextNY, socent
This past weekend, I had the privilege to attend the StartingBloc Institute for Social Innovation conference in New York as a StartingBloc Fellow for 2010. The conference will continue on March 27th and conclude on the 28th, but already it’s been hugely insightful for me as someone interested in the intersection of social entrepreneurship and [...]
Tags:Change.org·City Light Capital·Good Capital·Josh Cohen·Kevin Doyle·nathaniel Whittemore·socent·social entrepreneurship·social venture capital·StartingBloc
Eureka Moments: Realizing How to Meet a Need
February 26th, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, socent
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 [...]
Tags:Bible·Cafe Esperanza·entrepreneur·eyeglasses·glasses·Jordan Kassalow·Rick Carey·socent·social entrepreneurship·VisionSpring
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
The Power of Social Media for Haiti
January 17th, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, socent, tech
In a post from December, I wrote about how social media has become more than just a way for people to keep in touch and network online, how social media has become a force that can change lives and accomplish objectives by leveraging the power of millions of interconnected people. This past week has definitely [...]
Tags:American Red Cross·Doctors Without Borders·Haiti·mobile philanthropy·social entrepreneurship·social media·Twitter·WorldVision
Bamboosero!
December 7th, 2009 · View Comments · socent
In the realm of social entrepreneurship, one of the simplest ways to categorize social enterprises is to lump them into the following two (very general) categories: Enterprises that have the explicit mission of helping solve a social problem, such as the provision of safe drinking water or portable restrooms, just as two examples Enterprises whose [...]
Tags:bamboo·Bamboosero·bicycles·bike·Calfee Design·Craig Calfee·social entrepreneurship
VC and Entrepreneur Demographic Disparities
December 3rd, 2009 · View Comments · VC, socent
…………… In early October, Jeff Bussgang of Flybridge Capital Partners wrote about the VC gender gap in the provocatively-titled “Are VCs Sexist?”, where he talked about only 5-10% of the VC industry being female, and only 25% of VC partnerships having a single woman partner. As a result, these barriers to these barriers to the [...]
Tags:demographics·gender·race·socent·social entrepreneurship·SSIR·Stanford·VC·venture capital
