9 Tips For Building A Business Of Character

Like raising children, building a business is equal parts skill, sweat and patience with a little luck tossed in to the mix. And the kind of business you grow, like the children you raise will be a reflection of your values and conscious choices you make along the way. You can build a business following the traditions of the old school, or you can forge a new kind of business that perhaps better reflects your values.

Read the entire article from The Hartford Business Journal

Social Enterprise Network - A Brainstorming Meeting

Discussion for Friday 10/23 - Lunch discussion.

The concept of Social Enterprise, (where business is conducted in order to make a contribution rather than just to make a profit) is catching on, and I'd like to help push that idea, particularly in the Hartford community. To that end we've scheduled a lunch conversation to talk about how we can work together to promote the idea of social enterprise as a new, positive, business model that has special relevance today.

If you're free and available to come please send me an email.

Agenda:
Introductions
What is a social enterprise?
How can we promote it?
Who should we talk to? (People, companies, associations, other organizations)
What do people need to know?
Where will we find interested people?

Social Entrepreneurs at Davos

It may not be mainstream yet, but the appearance of so many Social Entrepreneurs at the World Economic Forum at Davos is a great thing. Read this article on who's showing up this year, and what types of contributions they're after.

http://select.nytimes.com/2007/01/30/opinion/30kristof.html