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Gary Levitt : Mad Mimi
In this episode we talk to Gary Levitt, the founder and CEO of the e-mail marketing company, Mad Mimi. We talk about the long journey our guest travelled from being bass guitar player to creating his...
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Justin Vincent : Pluggio
In this episode we talk to Justin Vincent. Justin has vast experience in starting up and running his own businesses. Some of you may know him as a host of a podcast called Techzing. Justin is also...
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Isabelle-Jasmin Roth : Bridge to India
In this episode we talk to Isabelle-Jasmin Roth from Bridge to India. Isabellle is responsible for business development, marketing and acquisition at Bridge to India. Isabelle-Jasmin explains to us...
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Greg Nemeth : WakeMate
In this episode we talk to Greg Nementh, co-founder and president of Perfect Third, Inc. This is the company behind the product some you may know and use, WakeMate. Listen to this episode to find out...
View ArticleInnovation that Matters
Investor Tim Rowe, CEO at the Cambridge Innovation Centre which connects venture capitalists (VCs) with entrepreneurs, was quoted in a recent interviewsaying: ‘I think that of the investors I know,...
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Could Patent Trolling have a Chilling Effect on Innovation?
The Chilling Effect, in Person? ‘The three pillars that enable patent trolling are: the existence of absurd patents; the forbidding cost of the legal process; and the business model of buying up...
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Bill Liao : WeForest
Listen to Bill Liao of WeForest as we launch Season Three of Escape Velocity. In this first podcast of our shiny new season of Escape Velocity we spoke with Bill Liao about a new and very interesting...
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Big Enough to Inspire, Small Enough to Achieve
We cannot save the Environment. There I said it. What a relief. We’ve all been thinking it, right? Climate change and the challenges posed by human impact on the environment seem to be both...
View ArticleMore Bill Liao Inspiration
Here’s a follow up to the interview we conducted with Bill Liao, plus some of Bill’s Huffington Post articles.
View ArticleEscape Velocity’s €10,000 Kiva Challenge
As our conversation with Bill Liao underlined, social entrepreneurs look for ways not just to contribute, but to steer the direction of contribution, they want to address old problems in new ways. In...
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Yasser Ansari : Project Noah
Podcast S03E02 Listen to Yasser Ansari discuss his Citizen Science tool, Project Noah, with Hrishi and Ben. In show number two of our new season Yasser Ansari explains Project Noah and Citizen Science....
View ArticleAttention Citizens!
What is your attention worth? Lots right? Okay, I’d better keep it short. I’m thinking about attention; what it is; why it’s important; how to get it. Like a lot of people I have an ever-shortening...
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Jodie Wu : Global Cycle Solutions
The Escape Velocity team kept Global Cycle Solutions’ Jodie Wu up late chatting about the economics of bicycles and farming in Africa. Ben and Hrishi interviewed the MIT graduate and co-founder of...
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Social Enterprise Ringing the Changes
According to Jeffrey Sachs of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. “The cell phone is the single most transformative technology for development.” CNN posted a great story about how the mobile...
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Robert Creighton: Windlift
Ben and Hrishi caught up with Robert Creighton to talk about the unusual and amazing technology that his company, Windlift, is developing. This was a really fascinating interview and the whole EV team...
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Technology Benefiting Humanity
Jeff Skoll at The Tech Awards in San Jose | Photo by Charlotte Fiorito A fantastic (and free!) online toolkit for developing an enterprise in terms of understanding its impacts, is Proving and...
View ArticleGetting Real About Social Enterprise
Following on from last week’s post, we’re keeping it on a Jeff Skoll theme, with a rich resource for entrepreneurs. One of the Skoll Foundation’s projects is Social Edge, a forum for social...
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Rafael Smith : Uber Shelter
This week Ben and Hrishi talk to Rafael Smith of Uber Shelter: a company providing emergency shelter. Rafael joins us from San Francisco and talks about his company Uber Shelter. Listen to this episode...
View ArticleBank on the Small Change
‘We need banking but we don’t need banks,’ says Prosper’s CEO, Chris Larsen, in an article by Chikodi Chima, on Venturebeat. Prosper is a US peer-to-peer lending and investment startup. Given the...
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Designing Innovation
Don’t forget that the deadline for nominations to the 2012 Social Innovation Awards are coming up fast. Do you have an awesome Social Investment Strategy? Is your Product Design sweet? Get your...
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