Social Entrepreneurship, Breadpig-style
Here's the blurb from the press release: Social Entrepreneur Alexis Ohanian is going to share his experience of social entrepreneurship with Armenian NGOs. Meeting will take place on March 25, 2010, at 17:30PM, at PFCS NGO Alexis started a social enterprise called ''Breadpig''(http://breadpig.com/ ), at the end of 2007 because he wanted to produce and sell geeky things. Instead of spending the profits building waterslides made out of gold, he donates it all to non-profits working in areas related to the items ''Breadpig'' sells. It's most recent product, publishing xkcd: volume 0, the first book of the popular webcomic, xkcd, has been sold over 25,000 copies -- Breadpig's profits are donated to Room To Read, a charity dedicated to promoting literacy in the developing world. In the last two years since inception, the "uncorporation" has given away almost $100,000.
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- 1. SocialEntrepreneurship Alexis Ohanian http://AlexisOhanian.com Twitter: @kn0thing
- 2. ԲարևՁեզ!
- 9. Steve
- 15. “Social Media”
- 16. “read”
- 17. breadpig.com
- 18. Pig
- 19. Pig +
- 20. Pig +Bread Wings
- 34. $37,000 donated
- 47. $50,000 donated in 2009
- 48. Customers tell us what to do. Hold us accountable.
- 49. Simple goalMaking the world suck less.
- 50. Simple goalMake the world suck less.
- 53. The world has a lot of problems.
- 54. Start small.
- 56. This is the trend. Thanks to technology.
- 59. This is the trend. Thanks to technology.
- 60. This is the trend. Thanks to technology. Name Age Favorite subject
- 61. Simple test:
- 62. Help children, we need100.000AMD
- 63. Help 4 children with 100.000AMD
- 64. Help 1 child with 100.000AMD
- 65. 25.000 AMD Help 1 child with 100.000AMDHelp 3 children with 100.000AMD
- 66. 25.000 AMD Help 1 child with 100.000AMD(100.000 AMD per child)Help 4 children with 100.000AMD(25.000 AMD per child)
- 67. 25.000 AMD Help 1 child with 100.000AMD(100.000 AMD per child)Help 4 children with 100.000AMD(25.000 AMD per child)
- 68. 25.000 AMD Help 1 child with 100.000AMD(100.000 AMD per child)Help 4 children with 100.000AMD(25.000 AMD per child)
- 69. 25.000 AMD Help 1 child with 100.000AMD(100.000 AMD per child)Help 4 children with 100.000AMD(25.000 AMD per child)
- 73. Not for hippies.
- 75. Not (just) for hippies.
- 81. Why do people work for NGOs?
- 83. Generation Me
- 84. No allegiance.
- 85. What’s loyalty?
- 86. Meh.
- 88. Company A making great food Revenue: 1.000.000AMD Costs:700.000AMD Profits: 300.000AMD
- 89. Company B making great food, for a great cause Revenue: 1.000.000AMD Costs: 700.000AMD Donated: 100.000AMD Profits: 200.000AMD
- 90. For good!
- 91. Competitive advantage? Company ACompany B
- 92. Competitive advantage? Company ACompany B
- 93. Competitive advantage? Company ACompany B
- 95. Working for more than a paycheck.
- 97. Make something people want.
- 98. Act now. The noveltyis limited.
- 99. Ideas abound.
- 100. Seriously.
- 101. Steal liberally.
- 107. Presenttechnologyis meant to be made obsolete
- 110. Why isn’t someone making these?
- 112. Reboot Capitalism.
- 113. Please.
- 114. Haves Have-nots
- 115. HavesHave-nots
- 116. “total income of the richest 25 million Americans is equal to total income of almost2 billion people." (Milanovic 2002, p. 50) HavesHave-nots
- 119. Questions? Alexis Ohanian http://AlexisOhanian.com Twitter: @kn0thing
Editor's Notes
- Why is this important? Because our generation isn’t planning on working for the same company their entire lives.
- Why is this important? Because our generation isn’t planning on working for the same company their entire lives.