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Shlok Vaidya’s thinking.
Social Entrepreneurship’s Funding Problem
Social entrepreneurship is exciting. It’s the application of business discipline to a real world problem in order to create value that others can use to benefit yet others. (‘Development’ is the legacy version of this approach.) Unfortunately, the funding pipeline … Continue reading
A Tax For Nonprofits?
Been thinking quite a bit about the sustainability of the nonprofit sector. For example, effort called The Two Thirds Effect is a nonstarter. It is essentially a voluntary 60% tax on profit. This is a very limited group of companies … Continue reading
Fooling Twitter
LOL. The application of social bots to game social networks. One team in the competition decided to test their bots on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service, which is based on swarms of humans performing simple tasks very cheaply. As Ackerman explained, “so … Continue reading
The Future of Development
Madeleine Bunting posts two possibile scenarios. One outlines what happens if we approach development in a linear fashion: African countries are crippled by the challenge of adapting to climate change; huge resources are channelled through the Green Fund from industrialised nations, … Continue reading
Amazon vs. Apple Is Really Zehr vs. Ive
Of course Amazon is gearing up to launch the iPad alternative. To succeed though, they need a world class designer. (This is where Motorola, Nokia, Sony are all screwing the pooch, big time.) I don’t think Amazon can beat Apple. (It … Continue reading