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Entrepreneurial Imperative 2010 from the rearview mirror

Posted by Gavin Baker - November 15, 2010 - knoxville, social media, startups
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Last week, I wrote a post on the New Streak (where I blog for work), on my participation on a panel at the Entrepreneurial Imperative 2010, a conference focused on entrepreneurship and hosted here in Knoxville, TN.  I’d highly recommend this conference as it’s one of the biggest groupings of entrepreneurial minded folks I’ve seen in Knoxville. My [...]

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Samasource gives jobs, not aid to end global poverty

Posted by Gavin Baker - August 12, 2010 - non profit, startups, TEDTalks
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Samasource might be my favorite new non-profit.  Why?  Because they bring together the scrapiness of a startup with the social effects of a non-profit.  Like charity:water they operate under the model that their “return” is about bringing an American commodity to the global poor.  So what is Samasource?  It’s pure and (not) so simple social entrepreneurship, using [...]

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Genesis startups and the bias against the other guys.

Posted by Gavin Baker - August 7, 2010 - startups
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Image via Wikipedia Recently I was eating a great breakfast cooked by my friend Alex and we were discussing startups and entrepreneurship in East Tennessee and we started discussing “original” startups vs buying existing businessnes or franchises and the bias in the start up community that exists against the later. Granted Alex and I both have experience [...]

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