Posts Tagged with ‘entrepreneur’

UnLtd World is a new beta that I was invited to test today. This charity based social network has a vision to be a platform for social entrepreneurs and a base for socially minded people to interact. My first impression of the site (outside the slick design) was skeptical I must say. My vision of the next social network, if we ever need another, has been something possessing unprecedented flexibility and function. While UnLtd does not possess Web [...]

There?s Kiva. There?s Accion International. There?s Opportunity International. And now there?s MicroPlace, an eBay company.
What are they? Microfinance groups and organizations, spread across the globe, whose purpose it is to offer entrepreneurs and small businesses in places where poverty disables such people and their enterprises of the possibility of growth the ability to expand, invest in more materials, and get hold of new tools in order to increase production, and, generally speaking, better their communities as a result. Sounds [...]

Spigit is a new social community and game that aims to provide a network of support for start-ups and their founders. It is being marketed as a "virtual game" that can simulate the real-life process of starting and building a startup service on the web.
According to the site, the community "provides professionals the ability to showcase new ideas and innovations and in the process build their professional network… through our proprietary simulation they can build and refine an idea, [...]