The other night while speaking with my wife about achieving goals, she made the comment that I needed to think more like a rocket than fireworks. That, in the interest of achieving my “goals”, I needed to have a trajectory with a goal as the destination… versus shooting straight up in the air, looking pretty, [...]

Following up from my post last week where I said “there is going to be a HUGE market for providing that capacity “, I was asked for a few examples of where I saw opportunities for products / services. 1) Urbanization and migrants With over 200+ cities with more than a million people, and a [...]

In the field of socially minded enterprises (my new term for the commonly abused term “Social enterprise”), there is a lot of passion. Some in the field come preloaded with massive does of passion and are fixated on their cause from day one, while others have found themselves full of consumed items and looking for [...]

Over the last few weeks, one of the issues that I have been focused on my twitter stream on is that of social entrepreneurs, more specifically how the term “social entrepreneur” largely implies an organization that (1) solves a social mission and (2) rarely grows bigger than anything “cute”.  That, while there are certainly a [...]

In the above Charlie Rose interview, Jack Ma is asked – and speaks extensively – on CSR  and philanthropy in China.  Interviewed before the now famous Gates and Buffet dinner, the interview couldn’t have come at a better time.   Founder of Alibaba and Taobao (two of China’s most trafficked ecommerce platforms), Jack Ma holds a [...]

In the non-profit realm, there have been fewer hotter topics discussed than the "social enterprise". it is an organization that, if asked to define, would have a spectrum of definitions that were at times vague, romantic, and would leave a lot of questions open about the real difference between an NGO and a social enterprise. [...]