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Cultural creativity & entrepreneurship : The emergence of new Social Venture Ludovic BODIN | Kalibrio | Social Venture Forum

About me

Ludovic Bodin ( 邓德伟 )

First venture: 20 y.o.

4 years in North & Latin America

Modernization of operators

UN Telecom projects

4 years in China / Asia

Starting Internet startups

Beijing, Macau, Seoul

www.kalibrio.com

Founder of the Social Venture Forum

Seed Social Ventures in China

www.socialventureforum.com

Cultural Creative & Entrepeneurship

Today is not to

Raise funds

Explain what is creativity

Sell anything

But share an idea:

The merge of Cultural Creative & Entrepreneurship

Cultural Creativity ?

Cultural Creativity “ group of people disenchanted with materialism and hedonism” Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Creatives Paul H. Ray & Sherry Ruth Anderson: “The Cultural Creatives : How 50 Million People are Changing the World”

Entrepreneur "an entrepreneur sees an opportunity , puts together a team , builds a business that profits from the opportunity " . Source: Robert Kiyosaki – “Retire young, retire rich”

What happen when “Cultural Creativity” meet “Entrepreneur”? Cultural Creativity Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur Disenchanted

with Materialism & Hedonism

who Build a Business driven

both Financially and Socially

Social Venture = Business driven by both profit and social good Cultural Creativity Entrepreneur Social Venture

Some words of wisdom Give a man a fish and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you will feed him for a lifetime. Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry . Bill Drayton Ashoka founder

What is a Social Venture? Business Social Good NGO CSR ‘ Old’ Capitalist Business Venture Philanthropy Social Venture Source: SocialVentureForum.com

Example of Entrepreneur disenchanted with …, let s meet Jeff built , got $$$ built , built

Have you seen these movies? Anything in common?

Participant Media Pro-social media company : Create and inspire social change

Anybody has heard about Jeff?

Let s get to know … Launch the video: www.ted.com/talks/view/id/170

Jeff Got a few billions from Ebay, Disenchanted with Materialism and Hedonism, Build his own foundation.

Jeff Invest in Films that Profit can be measured both Financially (30 movies including 5 blockbusters) and Socially (oil, climate change, tobacco, etc) Source: http://www.slideshare.net/kalibrio/film-social-ventures-kalibrio

Example of Entrepreneur disenchanted with …, let s meet Jeff friend, Pierre built , got $$$ built , built

Jeff friends, Pierre Got a few billions from Ebay, Disenchanted with Materialism and Hedonism, Build his own foundation.

Jeff friends, Pierre Invest in Ventures that Profit can be measured both Financially (70 ventures including 10 leading in their fields) and Socially (micro-finance, health, education, participatory media, etc)

Let s meet Muhamad Was teaching in John Maynard Keynes Adam Smith David Ricardo New York Stock Market London Stock Market

Muhamad Got disenchanted with Materialism and Hedonism, Build his own company.

Muhamad Teaching => Entrepreneurship Investment both driven by financial profit and Social Good

Muhamad Fastest growth in telco company in Asia New start up brining energy to rural areas

Muhamad Start up Business that Profit can be measured both Financially (5 ventures including 3 leading in their fields) and Socially ( micro-finance, telecom, solar energy, health, etc) And got the Peace Nobel Prize in 2006

Me:  Make business Latin America Make business in Macau 

  Will get a few (…)lions from (TBD), Already disenchanted with Materialism and Hedonism, Build the Social Venture Forum.

 Seed ventures both driven by financial profit and Social Good And Seed Social Ventures in China 

 Poverty Reduction Health Environment Cultural Diversity Education

Question How long before, people in China, esp. ( entrepreneur ) get disenchanted with venture simply driven by financially profit ?

Question Next Jeff Skoll in China Next Participant Media in China Next Omydiar Network in China Next Muhamad Yunus in China ?

Question Do you have to wait to be (ultra) rich to be social ? Source: Antoine Bureau, Health & Comitee based development UNDP - Mozambique, Africa Co-Founder Social Venture Forum

Next : what are you waiting for? Contact us: ludovic [at] kalibrio.com “ Interested by starting up a new Social Venture? A new idea to develop in China ? ”

Wish list for 2008: - Pro-social media company (film + web) - Participatory platform - Collective intelligence - Re-engineering of games technology for social applications - Poverty reduction platform - Participatory community of informed buyers - Participatory community of doctors - Participatory community of real estate agents

Thank you!

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