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    <pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 17:22:13 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>(Social) Entrepreneurship Week Wrap Up</title>
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&lt;p&gt;      &lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Originally posted on &lt;a href="http://team.zaadz.com/blog/2007/3/social_entrepreneurship_week_wrap_up"&gt;zBlog: Zaadz Team&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today we conclude our &lt;a href="http://team.zaadz.com/blog/tags/entrepreneurship+week"&gt;(Social) Entrepreneurship Week blogathon&lt;/a&gt;. We hope we&amp;#39;ve inspired you to get in touch with your inner-entrepreneur. Thanks to all those who participated. We invite you to carry on the discussions on &lt;a href="http://pods.zaadz.com/social_enterprise"&gt;zPod:Starship Social Enterprise&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The entrepreneurial rabbit hole is deep&amp;hellip; We now leave you with a handful of resources to explore. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;em&gt;Here&amp;#39;s to our entrepreneurial spirit!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So are you pumped up now and thinking of becoming an entrepreneur?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check out this uber-handy guide: &lt;a href="http://www.startupnation.com/pages/start/10Steps.asp"&gt;10 Steps to Open for Business&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Websites:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipweekusa.com/"&gt;EntrepreneurshipWeek USA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The national launch of EntrepreneurshipWeek USA at Stanford.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ashoka.org/"&gt;Ashoka: Innovators for the Public&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ashoka is leading a profound transformation in society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.echoinggreen.org/"&gt;Echoing Green&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Echoing Green&amp;#39;s mission is to spark social change by identifying, investing and supporting the world&amp;#39;s most exceptional emerging leaders and the organizations they launch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hbs.edu/socialenterprise/"&gt;Social Enterprise Initiative at Harvard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS generates and shares knowledge that helps individuals and organizations create social value in the nonprofit, private, and public sectors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://pods.zaadz.com/social_enterprise/discussions/view/98089#98089"&gt;Educator&amp;#39;s Corner for Entrepreneurship @ Stanford&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) is the entrepreneurship center within the Stanford University School of Engineering. STVP is dedicated to accelerating high-technology entrepreneurship research and education for engineers and scientists worldwide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.siconversations.org/series/socialEnterpreneurship.html"&gt;Social Innovation Conversations: Social Entrepreneurship (podcast)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reinventing the world togethoer one conversation at a time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pbs.org/opb/thenewheroes/"&gt;The New Heroes | PBS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The New Heroes tells the dramatic stories of 14 daring people from all corners of the globe who, against all odds, are successfully alleviating poverty and illness, combating unemployment and violence, and bringing education, light, opportunity and freedom to poor and marginalized people around the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Suggested Readings:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href="http://books.zaadz.com/368/good_business/by_mihaly_csikszentmihalyi"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Good Business : Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href="http://books.zaadz.com/1099/how_to_change_the_world/by_david_bornstein"&gt;&lt;em&gt;How to Change the World : Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://bebold.org/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Be Bold: Create a Career With Impact&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://books.zaadz.com/4812/conscious_business/by_fred_kofman"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Conscious Business : How to Build Value Through Values&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://books.zaadz.com/6314/megatrends_2010/by_patricia_aburdene"&gt;Megatrends 2010: The Rise of Conscious Capitalism&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href="http://books.zaadz.com/708/natural_capitalism/by_paul_hawken_amory_lovins_l_hunter_lovins"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href="http://books.zaadz.com/777/cradle_to_cradle/by_william_mcdonough_michael_braungart"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://books.zaadz.com/25193/the_triple_bottom_line/by_andrew_savitz_karl_weber"&gt;The Triple Bottom Line: How Today&amp;#39;s Best-Run Companies Are Achieving Economic, &lt;br /&gt;Social and Environmental Success &amp;ndash; and How You Can Too&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

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