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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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Best of both world’s, but how to integrate?

September 22nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Social Innovation, entrepreneur, technology

Walking home this evening, after an intense day focused with workshops on social innovation and web tech, it struck me how siloed these 2 worlds are when they have such potential to integrate. Both are developing their own methodologies and frameworks to become more efficient and increase the possibility of success, yet both show possible [...]

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Power to the people

September 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Politics

Going into this election it felt like a mass wave of disapproval across the country of the way the election campaign had become “a fight between 2 dogs” as Rob Oakshott so eloquently put it. The outcome, of a hung parliament, was a great way of the people demonstrating this dissatisfaction. Before voting, I worried [...]

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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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Sustainable Design and Ezio Manzini

July 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Environment, Indigenous Australia, Social Innovation, Social Media, Social justice, entrepreneur, sustainability, technology

Everybody now acknowledges that there is a problem concerning our environment. The unfamiliar and unsure part is what we can do to solve this. Last week one of the leading thinkers in sustainable design visited Australia. Ezio Manzini shared his wisdom in helping us make this change now. He identified the tools and opportunity we have  already around [...]

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