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Understanding Social Entrepreneurship « Harisays…. — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:31:45 +0000

[...] Understanding Social Entrepreneurship 25 07 2009 Last week, I wrote a small article for Pluggd.in. They featured this article as Understanding Social Entrepreneurship and Characteristics of Social Entrepreneur. [...]

By: litan

litan — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:07:38 +0000

Hey any more good examples of Indian social entrepreneurial startups?

By: Renjie Butalid

Renjie Butalid — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:24:53 +0000

This is an insightful article, thank you. Im a firm believer in inspiring young people to find their passions complemented with building their skill sets, enabling them to not only create meaning and value in their own personal lives, but also in the lives of others as well.

By: Akshay Surve

Akshay Surve — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:44:11 +0000

The reference paper, “Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition” categorically states:

Why not call these people social entrepreneurs? It wouldn’t be a tragedy. But such people have long had a name and an exalted tradition: the tradition of Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi, and Vaclav Havel. They are social activists. Calling them something entirely new – i.e., social entrepreneurs – and thereby confusing the general public, who already know what a social activist is, would not be helpful to the cause of either social activists or social entrepreneurs.

Although, I do not necessarily support the viewpoint of the authors of the paper; I thought it would be nice to mention the contradiction in the viewpoints.

By: Mouli Cohen

Mouli Cohen — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:36:21 +0000

I have to say your list rings absolutely true to my ears, especially “the essence of Social Entrepreneurship is the PASSION, DETERMINATION and FOCUS.”