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by Maira Sutton, Cat Johnson and Neal Gorenflo The sharing economy held great promise when it first emerged. It was seen as a way to help people build community, reduce unnecessary consumption, and generate extra income. It was based on the brilliantly simple notion that when we share, everybody has more. 
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Entrepreneur Elon Musk is a man with many plans. The founder of PayPal, Tesla Motors and SpaceX sits down with TED curator Chris Anderson to share details about his visionary projects, which include a mass-marketed electric car, a solar energy leasing company and a fully reusable rocket.
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Meritocracy and entrepreneurialism reinforce a closed system of privilege.
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After some time now, the Open Hardware Ecosystem and Business sector gained some significant traction.
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The etymology of words is important as it reveals unconscious understandings. Prince means the ‘the one who takes first’, enterpreneurs are ‘those who take in between’. Does the concept of ‘social enterpreneurship’ then mean: one that takes in between for the social, or ‘one that takes in between from the social’?
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Photo credit: Sebastiaan ter Burg via Foter.com / CC BY. Article cross-posted from Bollier.org.
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I know from personal experience that to launch and grow a social enterprise – even one as modest as my own micro-business school, Aidha – is no small feat. But to build an organization like the eyecare hospital Aravind Eye, or BRAC, which empowers the poor, or Doi Tung, which has become Thailand’s social “incubator”, fostering new businesses … that’s big. That is to fundamentally change the world.
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But now consider a nonprofit that advocates for healthy food, say by trying to get it into school cafeterias. What happens as it succeeds? It may get less money -- why donate as much to help fewer school kids? Further progress gets harder and harder.
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Entrepreneurs and small businesses are the lifeblood of today’s economy. They have the power to make an impact and be nimble without all the red tape and bureaucracy that can bog down larger companies. Many of the most popular and forward-thinking companies are concerned not just with creating innovative products, but also with influencing society for the better. They focus on impacting the world in a positive way, even if it’s just on a small scale. Among the most visible leaders of this movement are Ben and Jerry’s and The Body Shop along with newer entrants like Toms and Warby Parker. In addition, the organization/certification B Corp was created, as they explain, to “provide a framework and certification for companies to benefit society as well as their shareholders.” After all, if you could promote change and function in a socially responsible way without sacrificing revenue and innovation, wouldn’t you?
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