Social entrepreneurship, "markets" and lots of bs

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1. Social entrepreneurship, “markets” and lots of bs Lessons from being there and doing that Varun Arora, 24th Sep '13
2. I am a “social entrepreneur” I founded I have a BS / Information Systems ('12) Masters / Information Systems Management ('12) from I hack, build relationships and collaborate with awesome people to create technology experiences that impact lives of children all around the world.
3. Courtesy: Twitter
4. Courtesy: Ilawar on Flickr
5. ME YOU Talked about myself, showed you pictures of home and tried to establish credibility, even though I'm clearly too young About you, the creator, the innovator, future of social and humanitarian impact US About my journey, a similar journey to the one you are on, and what I learned that might be interesting for you
6. Social entrepreneurship, “markets” and lots of bs / 24th Sep '13 ME US you What is the purpose of our existence?
7. IMMERSION WORK PERSONAL LIFE
8. Social entrepreneurship, “markets” and lots of bs / 24th Sep '13 ME US you Int'l development IDEAS FOR “SOCIAL” CHANGE Community Individuals
9. Demography & economic tier PROBLEM AREA REASON
10. RECIPIES Turning ideas into social innovations • Passion • Skills + tools • (Money)
11. PROCESS Turning ideas into social innovations Idea discovery + scoping Build Measure Learn
12. Social entrepreneurship, “markets” and lots of bs / 24th Sep '13 ME US you Lots of “business stuff” (bs)
13. BS #1: VALUE CREATION
14. BS #2: community validation
15. BS #3: “INVESTMENT”
16. BS #4: SOCIAL CAPITAL
17. BS #5: metrics
18. ME YOU Talked about myself, showed you pictures of home and tried to establish credibility, even though I'm clearly too young About you, the creator, the innovator, future of social and humanitarian impact US About my journey, a similar journey to the one you are on, and what I learned that might be interesting for you
19. Growing up, I became obsessed with openness WWW & FOSS “dev as freedom” Textbooks + learning
21. Social entrepreneurship, “markets” and lots of bs / 24th Sep '13 ME US you
22. Social entrepreneurship, “markets” and lots of bs / 24th Sep '13 ME US you >100 partner orgs sharing open k12 content >10k resources
23. Social entrepreneurship, “markets” and lots of bs / 24th Sep '13 ME US you
24. 1 YOUR SOCIAL INNOVATION IS ONLY AS SUCCESSFUL AS YOUR ABILITY TO BRING IT TO LIFE
25. 2 FOCUS, PERSEVERANCE AND REMAINING TRUE TO VALUES ARE YOUR FINEST WEAPONS IN COMBATING MEDIOCRITY AND CHANGING STATUS QUO
26. 3 The most powerful asset you can ever have is empathy
27. Thanks! varun@theopencurriculum.org