social entrepreneurship

Kumon’s Humble Beginnings Take Over the World

Kaihan Krippendorff — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:21:30 -0500

Yesterday I started reviewing Kumon, which is celebrating 50 years of educating students across the globe. The company has humble roots but has grown to be the leading tutoring center in the world.

Kumon Uses Old Innovations Today

Kaihan Krippendorff — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:41:15 -0500

Still wired from 20 hours in flight and now lounging in the Ritz-Carlton hotel bar in Singapore, I flip to an article that underscores an often-overlooked pattern of innovation: When the competition is going after the “new” thing, outthinkers beat them by re-embracing the old.

Tech2Biz Forum

Shrikant Lohokare — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:44:16 -0500

A platform to discuss emerging technologies, innovation,commercialization, entrepreneurship,startup incubation and business strategy

Bio and Interests: Jim Wilkerson

Jim Wilkerson — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:57:57 -0500

ePrize Connects Clients And Decreases Costs

Kaihan Krippendorff — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:17:06 -0500

As I wrap up my study of ePrize, I wanted to share more from my interview with Josh Linkner, CEO and founder of ePrize. I was impressed by his dedication to finding new innovations. The company is leaps and bounds ahead of its closest competitors, but instead of resting on its laurels, ePrize management makes sure it’s always trying to change the industry.

Stand On A Strong Foundation - ePrize Was Focused From The Start

Kaihan Krippendorff — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:19:58 -0500

Yesterday I began my inspection of ePrize’s continued dominance in the internet promotional marketing industry. I found that its current market share is directly related to the foundation and creation of the company.

Force a two-front battle

ePrize Versus Slither: Fabricating A Competitor To Stay Innovative

Kaihan Krippendorff — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:28:54 -0500

The interactive promotional company ePrize is under siege by a uniformed group of attackers from their archrival, Slither Corp. Slither personnel have entered ePrize’s building, trying to find the keys to ePrize’s success.

Tradestation Competes with Microsoft Instead of e*Trade

Kaihan Krippendorff — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:29:36 -0500

In 199 AD, in a now-legendary Chinese military tale, a general named Sun Ce defeated his larger opponent by tricking him into leaving his stronghold unguarded. This maneuver led to a historic turning point: the first unification of southern China after centuries of unrest.

It also imprinted in military doctrine an ancient concept that great innovators continue to leverage today against their competitors.

Lessons From the Obama Campaign Part II

Kaihan Krippendorff — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:56:00 -0500

Yesterday I began my review of the innovators and strategies that the Obama campaign employed to win the presidency. Here is another tried and true method for success that you can implement into your own business strategy.

Coordinate the uncoordinated

Finding New Product Uses

Carel Two-Eagle — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:53:28 -0500

Hanh mitakuyapi. Hello my relatives. I believe I've said before that I take no salary from my company in order to give it more to build with, & instead, I work outside jobs. Among my many skills is that of carpentry - master level, frame to finish including cabinet-making. Today, I rode along with someone to install a window in (shiver!) a trailer house. I think they're called "mobile homes" now, but they're 'trailers' to me. Anyway, like most "trailer homes", this one had substantial rot around the window.

Micro-entrepreneurs

Lessons From the Obama Campaign: Overcoming Skepticism and Winning People Over

Kaihan Krippendorff — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:56:13 -0500

Creativity is generating a novel idea while innovation is transforming that idea into reality. Being creative does not make someone an innovator. To achieve innovator status, one must use the creative mind but also possess an uncommon social intelligence, political acuity, and skill at persuasion.

We Are Now 28 of Us

Carel Two-Eagle — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:37:29 -0500

Hanh mitakuyapi. Hello my relatives. The title says it all. 28 being 4 * 7, 2 holy numbers in the Lakota Way, 28 is, too. We're growing, & this is good.

Micro-entrepreneurs

Microsoft vs. Google: A 2,400-Year-Old Move

Kaihan Krippendorff — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:50:22 -0500

This week several seemingly unrelated news articles are actually talking about the same thing: a fundamental pattern of competition that reveals the underpinnings between Google’s and Microsoft’s emerging battle in online software.

Find and Follow the Path Less Traveled

Kaihan Krippendorff — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:32:52 -0400

My good friend Sabrina Herrera wrote to me recently to say that the company she cofounded 15 years ago has gone public. Genomma Lab was able to become the only over-the-counter drug company traded on the Mexican stock exchange. Click on the link for a brief story of Genomma Lab.

Three Business Choices to Grow Your Company By - Today

Kaihan Krippendorff — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:21:04 -0400

This is not an ocean. The tide is not out. Not every ship is sinking.

It seems everywhere I go people are captivated by what CNBC has to report, minute by minute, tick by tick, wondering when their 401-Ks might hit rock bottom. But I also hear of real estate firms making fantastic buys that just a year ago would have been impossible. Wealth is being created by some, but it is those true innovators who are willing to adapt to a “crisis” and turn it into an opportunity.

Talk About Nerve! A Business-Political Rant

Carel Two-Eagle — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:55:57 -0400

Hanh mitakuyapi. Hello my relatives.

I received an email recently that claims Wal-Mart senior management has been calling mandatory meetings for the company's employees in which the employees are told they "cannot" vote for the Obama-Biden ticket "or any other employee-friendly, union-friendly candidates for political office". It's not an urban legend, according to the sources I checked.

This makes me so angry I just boil. When it comes to the Constitution, I am a rabid supporter.

Talking About Nerve!

Carel Two-Eagle — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:40:01 -0400

Hanh mitakuyapi. Hello my relatives.

This makes me so angry I just boil. When it comes to the Constitution, I am a rabid supporter.

Micro-entrepreneurs

Bio and Interests: al taylor

al taylor — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 10:48:35 -0400

Born in the USA. Educated in Japan. Career is based in Ghana. I am a bit of everything rolled into one. My passion is focusing on people helping people. Enjoy traveling the world and working on ict projects that can change the world or at least a small part of it. Founded a bunch of startups in the 80's, 90's and am working on my latest vennture: Grow Ghana LTD ( an ict & media house) headquartered in Accra with anothr office in the Western Region in the city of Takoradi.

Obama and McCain Fight Over A Woman

Jeff Chu — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:14:06 -0400

When D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee got a shout-out from Barack Obama in the third presidential debate on Wednesday night, she was asleep. "I was trying to watch it," she tells Fast Company. "But it was so boring. Then, all of a sudden, my phone and BlackBerry start blowing up. Someone sent me a link to the transcript, and I saw what they said, and I was like, 'Oh, good Lord!'"

The Inquisition

Jeff Chu — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:04:03 -0400

Two-Eagle Re-Post of Excellent Article

Carel Two-Eagle — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:02:53 -0400

Homeless Entrepreneur Shares Office With Millionaire| posted by Francisco Dao

Micro-entrepreneurs

Thriving in Chaos - A Bank Rises When Everyone Else Falls

Kaihan Krippendorff — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:11:29 -0400

“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.” - Henry B. Adams

Recently my wife and I closed on a new home in Greenwich, CT. Each day that we waited for mortgage approval seemed to open with yet another front-page article about well-off home-buyers turned down for a loan. We were relieved when our approval finally came through.

But we were elated to learn we locked in a rate far below the market. Indeed it seemed that mortgage companies were raising rates across the board, our lender’s rates remained unmoved. How could this be?

A Chicken Farm Gobbles Competition - How You Can Too

Kaihan Krippendorff — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 05:34:25 -0400

"Look before or you'll find yourself behind."
- Benjamin Franklin

The Outthinker: Mavericks that Out Innovate the Competition

Kaihan Krippendorff — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 02:57:59 -0400

Kaihan Krippendorff profiles successful business thinkers who illustrate that size and resources are no match when faced with innovation. Based on original interviews with innovative CEOs, his blog equips readers with the ability to see their businesses in a new way. Readers learn to naturally tap into their own creativity and implement strategies that lead to bottom-line results.

Creative Capitalism

Adam Roark — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:39:27 -0400

Creative capitalism or compassionate capitalism refers to businesses established to meet a consumer demand and leverage that ordinary consumption based decision into a giving opportunity that doesn't cause the consumer to incur any extra costs.

Approximately 70% of American GDP is generated by consumption, while philanthropy represents only around 2%. More ideas must emerge that tap into our consumption and convert a portion into charitable support. Long term non profit sustainability will be unnecessarily difficult, if not impossible, any other way.