The Joy of Quiet. Writing -> Papers -> Rant.04. 10 Start-Ups To Watch: COMMON Pitch Finalists. COMMON Pitch, is a new initiative for social good that has put out a call for new community projects, but with a twist.
On August 19, in Boulder, Colorado the top ten winning applicants will get their time on stage to present their ideas to a live and virtual crowd of peers, industry leaders, and venture capitalists. Votes will determine winners, who have the chance to fund their ideas to make them a reality. Check out the top ten finalists below! Social Entrepreneurs Must Achieve Not Survive (September 15, 2011) The sector needs to shift the definition of success from organizations that survive to organizations that actually achieve their missions.
Every week, I read about another social entrepreneur contemplating closing down business due to the recession. Rod Garrett, the Urban Planner Behind ‘Burning Man’ The short list includes Georges-Eugène Haussmann, who bulldozed much of Paris in the mid-19th century, and Robert Moses, who remade New York during the 20th.
And Rod Garrett, who, beginning in 1997, laid out Burning Man, the annual festival of self-expression in the parched northern Nevada desert. Mr. Garrett died last week at 74, just short of the 25th anniversary of Burning Man’s founding. But his handiwork will be on display to thousands as the yearly festival begins Monday. Mr. Until then the Man is to Black Rock City what the Empire State Building is to Manhattan: a locating device and a reassuring beacon. Within the inhabited section of the city — a C shape tracing 240 degrees of the circle and comprising some 41 million square feet — Burners, as participants in the festival are known, erect everything from circus tents to lavish nightclubs trucked in, piece by piece, from California.
One of the many ways in which Black Rock City epitomizes thoughtful city planning, Mr. Certainly Mr. Growing Pains for Burning Man Festival. One piece of paper and new societal babies - philippa young. The 99% Occupy St Paul's tent community has been in place for a while now.
Most people walk past it without even batting an eyelid. I walked past without batting an eyelid. At least I did, until I spotted a white A4 piece of paper. This piece of paper hangs on the doorway to one of the entrances. Handwritten on this paper it reads "No drink or drugs beyond this point". I saw this piece of paper and my heart sank. The Foundations Of A Startup Community. Editor’s Note: Brenden Mulligan is an entrepreneur who created Onesheet, ArtistData, MorningPics, and PhotoPile.
He’s an mentor for 500 Startups, Advise.me and several startups. You can find him on Twitter at @bmull and blogging at Starting Up. For the past few months, my wife and I have been traveling and meeting startups around the world. We’ve met entrepreneurs in Tokyo, Thailand, India, Israel, and Istanbul. In the next week we’ll be meeting with a community leader in South Africa. In addition to meeting with the teams, we have been leading Q&A sessions with larger groups. It’s an important question, as a lot of the startups’ success in Silicon Valley can be attributed to the strong community. These are the elements I think are important to seed a startup community: Stop Coddling the Super-Rich. Tips for Shy People at Burning Man. Photo: Jon O.
Hi. Are you shy? Do you have a hard time walking into a camp full of complete strangers and striking up a conversation? Does the idea of walking out of your tent in a crazy outfit strike terror into your heart? You’ve Got the Love(social) If someone told the five-year-old me — who had just immigrated from Iran to Vancouver — that one day, I would have this palm-sized tool would let me connect with the whole entire world, I would have cocked my untamed little Persian eyebrow and said, “Oh, really now?”
That someone would proceed to tell me this magic tool would, within seconds, let me voice my opinion, rally around the things I believed in, bring attention to things that mattered and learn about just about anything with a whole community of incredible people. Even at that age, I would be hard pressed to think that such a world would be possible.
Alongside many, I was born in a place where your opinion is not something that you should can share with everyone—or anyone for that matter. I was born in a place where there politics, ego and inequality is the power in question. My startup Lovesocial has seen just how powerful social can be. Steve Jobs’s Real Genius. Not long after Steve Jobs got married, in 1991, he moved with his wife to a nineteen-thirties, Cotswolds-style house in old Palo Alto.
Jobs always found it difficult to furnish the places where he lived. His previous house had only a mattress, a table, and chairs. He needed things to be perfect, and it took time to figure out what perfect was.