Justoopen: get paid for watching ads

May 22nd, 2010 § 0

JustOOpen is a crazy project Billy Chevallereau: it is a website with advertisements. If you go 50,000 times on that webpage, you’ll get € 50. How is this possible? JustOOpen revenues are based on advertising. The company gives 10% of its income to the Foundation of France and 40% go to users. 50 euros for 50 000...

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Using social media to boost charitable giving

May 19th, 2010 § 0

What? Participating charities have to mobilize their social media followers to vote for them on Humanity calls’ website. Humanity Calls provides nonprofits with tools to help, including email copy, embeddable widgets, Twitter copy, etc. How much? The tournament’s cash pool has been seeded with $50,000 donated by eBay and will grow during the tournament as individual donations magnify...

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TTC – mobilize with technology

May 17th, 2010 § 0

From Bangalore. India. Tactical Technogy Collective was created by Maled and Steph in 2003. They were doing “camps” all around the world to help activists and NGOs to use technology. For this they created content : video, websites, books. New they work almost only on that they content, that they update regularly and provide for free...

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Entrepreneurship in India #4 : What do you want?

May 14th, 2010 § 0

Said bluntly, most of the Western entrepreneurs want money, and want to grow, to get more money. It is not true of every entrepreneurs, especially the increasing number of social entrepreneurs. But it is even enshrined in French law which says that the manager of a company should never act ...

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Distribution 2.0 : What defines a social entrepreneur?

May 10th, 2010 § 0

From Mumbai, India. Mukut Deepak, a young entrepreneur from Mumbai, decided to tackle the issue of distribution: in India, there is no integrated distribution at the national level. As a result, many products do not reach the countryside nor the slums, while India is predominantly rural and poor. Instead of letting these campaigns in isolation, which...

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Entrepreneurship in India#3 : be a guru

May 7th, 2010 § 0

A French writer, Guy Sorman, made a remark on his book on “Indian genius” (Le génie indien). According to him, most of Indian people, no matter their origin or background, try to find its own appropriated guru. Is is not only true about religion, but also about politics, journalism, (blogging?)… and as regards entrepreneurship. As...

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Intellecash – Beyond profit ?

May 5th, 2010 § 1

From Mumbai, India. Intellecash / Intellecap is a “for-profit” social business. It helps other social businesses, mainly those who are for-profit, to grow, to meet new investors and become more profitable thanks to advising and assistance. It provides a “package” of services to new microfinance institutions to help them start. It is called microfranchise, although this...

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CIS – Internet is neither good nor bad

May 3rd, 2010 § 0

The Center for Internet and Society is a non-profit based in Bangalore, India, created by Sunil Abraham, founder of Mahiti. The aim is to understand and shape the internet and its relation with society and politics using research, intervention and collaboration. The internet is often demonized or mythified and generally misunderstood. It is a good initiative...

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Entrepreneurship in India #2: About faith

April 29th, 2010 § 0

The most important thing when you are an entrepreneur is to believe in your project. It is a matter of faith : the company, the product, the employees may not exist yet but you must believe that your project will work and that it will make money. A business plan is only conjectures and assessment,...

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The hybrid model

April 26th, 2010 § 0

Mahiti is a social enterprise that provides simple and effective open source web technology. Websites, software development … Mahiti offers a range of services to its clients : NGOs, social entreprises, foundations… In parallel, Mahiti sells the same servicies to private groups, charging at a higher price. This allows Mahiti to be economically independent, and even...

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