People often ask me what Social Innovation is and my answer constantly evolves, but I strongly feel that it’s importance will continue to emerge. Social Innovation is finding solutions to the social, cultural and environmental challenges we together face. The world and our society has experienced unprecedented growth in the last 100 years. While we [...]
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What exactly is Social Innovation?
January 27th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Social Innovation
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Week 3: Pollenizer BootCamp Customer Development
October 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment · entrepreneur, personal development
The Pollenizer Bootcamp is enforcing the Lean methodology and forcing me to think as a “smart” entrepreneur. What’s that saying? “work smart, not harder”, that is the case for all teams at the camp. The Week 3 session has been and gone and, now I’ve focused on what my idea is, it’s time to test my hypothesis [...]
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Everyone’s talking at Sydney’s first Social Innovation BarCamp
August 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Social Innovation, entrepreneur, personal development
Saturday, the 14th of August, 2010 was the inaugural BarCamp discussing Social Innovation. An interesting and diverse range of people participated in conversation and activity throughout the day. “the vision for running the Social Innovation BarCamp is to provide a place for people to engage. There are many intelligent and effective people, from various fields, across the [...]
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Why run an unconference BarCamp to discuss social innovation?
August 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Social Innovation, entrepreneur, technology
On the 14th of August Sydney will hold it’s first Social Innovation BarCamp. But why is this different to the multitude of other events on every week? A **Barcamp unconference is a chance for all participants to contribute, an opportunity for conversation & for collaboration. After spending some time now in the social innovation and enterprise community [...]
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The Hive Sydney and Bart Jellema
July 15th, 2010 · 1 Comment · entrepreneur
The Hive Sydney welcomed Ross Hill and heard Bart Jellema tell his story from start-up to exit last night at the return of this monthly event. After a bit of a hiatus the Hive Sydney returned with a packed house and a great story. Ross Hill started us off by explaining why the Hive was [...]
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