Entrapreneur Priorities

Young-entrapreneur

From the Blog of Ryan Carson...

A lot of the teams that are working 6-7 days a week are young without families. I’m 34 and I have two kids. I’m not willing to sacrifice my family and health for my company, even if they are. The great thing is that I don’t think anyone does.
So if we can achieve profitability, grow quickly and raise large amounts of capital, all while working 4-days a week, shouldn’t you consider it at your startup?
Founder and CEO of Treehouse, a tech learning platform that looks to be very promising and has recently raised $4.75M.

He explains more about what they have accomplished and why on his blog. Worth a glance, even if you are not in the throws of a start up.

 

 

 

An Exhibition Celebrating Designers of Social Enterprise

An inspiring piece from the New York Times on designers who are being recognized for their work to serve the needs of the global poor by the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum.  

In short, these designers recognize that social enterprise will lead the way to change.

Interestingly, most of the designers who spoke at the opening of the exhibition spurned the idea of charity.  “The No. 1 need that poor people have is a way to make more cash,” said Martin Fisher, an engineer who founded KickStart, an organization that says it has helped 230,000 people escape poverty. 

What is more, these designers recognize that great talent should be put to use in the form of great service.

The world’s cleverest designers, said Dr. Polak, a former psychiatrist who now runs an organization helping poor farmers become entrepreneurs, cater to the globe’s richest 10 percent, creating items like wine labels, couture and Maseratis.
“We need a revolution to reverse that silly ratio,” he said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/29/science/29cheap.html

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Wall Street meet .Coop - #OWS

"Humanity learned to do without kings and emperors and slave masters. We found our way to a democratic alternative, however partial and unfinished the democratic project remains. We can now take the next step to realise that democratic project.

We can bring democracy to our enterprises – by transforming them into cooperatives owned, operated and governed by democratic assemblies composed of all who work in them and all the residents of the communities who are interdependent with them."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/oct/04/occupy-wall-street-new-york