I tried to post on the Coco website, but I get error, so until it is resolve here it is: >> I am happy to report to this group that technologies of cooperation are bringing major changes to the world of entrepreneurship, and after a long silence, here are the results of my research and experiments in this area:
In the recent years, I have observed (in addition to the Entrepreneur Commons I created - http://www.entreco.org ) the emergence of networks of entrepreneurs with global footprints such as the Small Giants Community - http://www.smallgiants.org - and Evolve - http://www.evolveusa.org/ ). These networks are interconnected with related programs for networking (for example First Tuesday - http://www.firsttuesday.com ), for learning (for example StartupSchool - http://startupschool.supercoolschool.com or Founders Institute - http://www.founderinstitute.com/ ), for getting started (StartupWeekend - http://www.startupweekend.org ), for working together (Coworking - http://www.coworking.com ). And entrepreneurs have come up with new creative ways of raising money (for example GrowVC - http://growvc.com, or Indiegogo - http://www.indiegogo.com or Kickstarter - http://www.kickstarter.com/ ). The business of business is changing, and it is just the beginning. Looking at all this, I decided to create a conference to showcase what was happening, and offer a space and an opportunity to reflect upon these changes, what they were bringing and how we could benefit from them on a larger scale. In partnership with the director of First Tuesday for the Americas, and with the support of HP we produced the Incubate 2.0 conference - http://www.incubate2.com - in November 2010. The conference was a featured event of Global Entrepreneurship Week. The conference was also an opportunity to launch StartupCause - http://www.startupcause.org - a collective of programs dedicated to helping entrepreneurs. This website is now a community space and a media space where we can showcase what is being done by individual groups, and hopefully a lot of good things will come out of this community. If you are interested in looking at what was discussed during the event, I have started uploading videos at http://video.startupcause.org Alan Moore, who I believe is a member of this group, was a keynote speaker at the event, He tells a great story about linear thinking and how there should be "no straight lines" in how we do things. If you have 30mns, his talk is well worth watching - http://video.startupcause.org/yKL/alan-moore-no-straight-lines/ Another great talk from the event: Michael Lewkowitz talk about how we should do business today - http://video.startupcause.org/MyH/michael-lewkowitz-lets-get-naked/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CooperationCommons" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cooperationcommons?hl=en.
