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Marcia Stepanek | Monday 16th November 2009
Innovators have always been heroes, whether or not the marketplace liked their inventions or immediately recognized them for their brilliance. [Think Philo Farnsworth (TV), Preston Tucker (1948 Torpedo automobile), Alexander Fleming (Penicillin) and Steve Jobs, just for starters.]

But today's entrepreneurial landscape is different. More than any other time in recent history, it is crowded with new venture ideas. Today's business and non-profit worlds favor the young and the globally conscious, and even in the most destitute corners of the world, young social innovators are more start-up savvy than ever. They're not waiting for permission to get started: the world's problems have rarely seemed so daunting.

To commemorate Global Entrepreneurship Week (#GEW), which runs this week in 85 nations [including the United States], this blog will be posting three short "Changemaker" profiles spotlighting a few of the most dynamic new social entrepreneurs using the mobile Internet today. To be sure, we profile many innovators on this blog -- regardless of what week it is. But this week and next, we'll focus on a few who are testing new ways to use new "right here, right now" mobile technologies to improve the world as we know it.
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Green Isn't Everything
Marcia Stepanek | Monday 16th November 2009
Activist Adam Werbach talks about North Star Goals and new trends in corporate
sustainability and social innovation
School for Change-makers
Marcia Stepanek | Thursday 12th November 2009
A look at DoSomething.org's Social Action Boot Camps, which teach kids the art of the ask
-- and the enterprise
Growing Change -- In the Dark
Marcia Stepanek | Thursday 12th November 2009
Two 24-year-old ex-classmates are building a new company that's growing a replacement for
Styrofoam
Slow Money: A New Movement for Social Enterprise
Marcia Stepanek | Friday 6th November 2009
We profile Woody Tasch and his new movement for healthier, wiser, and more humane
investments in social enterprises
Social Values: How Vulnerable to Profit?
Marcia Stepanek | Wednesday 4th November 2009
An interview with Gabriel Brodbar, director of the Reynolds Program in Social Entrepreneurship at New York University
Growth of Social Enterprises in India
Justmeans Staff | Saturday 31st October 2009
Rural Innovation Network is an Indian social enterprise, helping rural population improve
their standard of living.
10 Rules for Sustaining Your Social Enterprise
Marcia Stepanek | Thursday 29th October 2009
How to avoid common mistakes in setting up your social enterprise
PopTech Recap: Mobile Enterprise
Marcia Stepanek | Thursday 29th October 2009
Four social entrepreneurs use the PopTech stage to unveil projects that use the mobile Internet to help BoP communitie
Social Entrepreneur: A Definition
Marcia Stepanek | Tuesday 20th October 2009
"Social entrepreneurship" has been hard to define; NYU professor Paul Light offers his
take in a Q&A with us.
Does Your Social Venture Have Founder's Syndrome?
Marcia Stepanek | Friday 16th October 2009
What happens when the founder won’t step out of the way? Is there anything to be done?
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