Category: Events
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Social Entrepreneurship at NWEN: Doing Well by Doing Right (via Flexcar)
Lance Ayrault, CEO of Flexcar, gave a great talk at the Northwest Entrepreneur Network (NWEN) Venture Breakfast at the Bellevue Harbor Club yesterday on the topic of social entrepreneurship (a topic near and dear to my heart … and blog). Flexcar is an interesting exemplar of a non-traditional social venture, in that they are a…
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Stumbling on Happiness: Simulation, Surrogation, Attachment and Service
Dan Gilbert gave an inspiring talk at Microsoft Research recently (before heading into Seattle to present to a larger audience at Town Hall), sharing some insights from his book Stumbling on Happiness. Dan provided numerous opportunities to experience "learning through laughing" as he guided us through an engaging, enlightening and often delightful exploration into how…
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The Pervasiveness and Permeability of Games Worlds
The Microsoft Research Social Computing Symposium this week highlighted the pervasiveness of games and raised a number of questions (for me) about the thin membrane between games worlds and so-called real life. I was also reminded of a number of themes I first encountered years ago in a delightful and insightful book, Finite and Infinite…
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Social Entrepreneurship at Zino Society
The Zino Society Roundtable meeting had a social entrepreneurial flavor — or perhaps it would be more accurate to say several such flavors — this month. Two of the four companies presenting their plans to the Zino investors (SoilSoup and MadreMonte) had goals of creating greater social and/or environmental welfare, and another (Jookster) was incorporating…
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Bizniking at the BalMar with a Proactive Display
Biznik is "an urban tribe for business, a supportive business network that encourages creativity, radical thinking, and community" … The BalMar brings "cocktails, conversation and comfort" together in "a unique space with exceptional service and adventurous food and drink" … It’s hard to imagine a group or place that could be better aligned with the…
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Entrepreneurial Proverbs
Marc Hedlund, serial entrepreneur and, until very recently, entrepreneur-in-residence at O’Reilly Media, has shared an inspiring — and inspired — collection of Entrepreneurial Proverbs from his eTech presentation on Monday on Coding to Co-Founder: How to Move from Engineering to Entrepreneuring … or, as Marc likes to put it, "Entrepreneuring for Geeks". The post has…
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The Practicalities, Perils and Promise of RFID
Dorkbot Seattle offered a multidimensional opportunity to learn about and experience different facets of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology last night, under the provocative title "RFID – Identity That Gets Under your Skin". There were three presentations and two types of opportunities for participation by attendees … each requiring a significantly different level of commitment.…
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Locks and Keys to Object-centered Sociality in the Physical World
After packing up our proactive display equipment from the Zino Society event, we headed over to BalMar Lounge to observe another kind of technology used to enhance interactions among people attending an event: a Lock and Key Party organized by Space City Mixer. Here are the rules: The Lock and Key Encounter is a very…
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Wine and Wisdom … and Interrelativity
There were lots of insights and experiences involving entrepreneurship, investing and wine flowing at The Rainier Club during last night’s Zino Society Roundtable meeting. As with the last Roundtable meeting, the event offered a unique combination of business and pleasure, with a short keynote address and four investment pitches by entrepreneurs, followed by a wine…