(Social) Entrepreneurship Week Wrap Up

Today we conclude our (Social) Entrepreneurship Week blogathon. We hope we've inspired you to get in touch with your inner-entrepreneur. Thanks to all those who participated. We invite you to carry on the discussions on zPod:Starship Social Enterprise.

The entrepreneurial rabbit hole is deep... We now leave you with a handful of resources to explore.

Here's to our entrepreneurial spirit!

So are you pumped up now and thinking of becoming an entrepreneur?

Check out this uber-handy guide: 10 Steps to Open for Business

Websites:

EntrepreneurshipWeek USA
The national launch of EntrepreneurshipWeek USA at Stanford.

Ashoka: Innovators for the Public
Ashoka is leading a profound transformation in society.

Echoing Green
Echoing Green's mission is to spark social change by identifying, investing and supporting the world's most exceptional emerging leaders and the organizations they launch.

Social Enterprise Initiative at Harvard
The Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS generates and shares knowledge that helps individuals and organizations create social value in the nonprofit, private, and public sectors.

Educator's Corner for Entrepreneurship @ Stanford
Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) is the entrepreneurship center within the Stanford University School of Engineering. STVP is dedicated to accelerating high-technology entrepreneurship research and education for engineers and scientists worldwide.

Social Innovation Conversations: Social Entrepreneurship (podcast)
Reinventing the world togethoer one conversation at a time.

The New Heroes | PBS
The New Heroes tells the dramatic stories of 14 daring people from all corners of the globe who, against all odds, are successfully alleviating poverty and illness, combating unemployment and violence, and bringing education, light, opportunity and freedom to poor and marginalized people around the world.

Suggested Readings:

Innovation and Entrepreneurship
by Peter F. Drucker

Good Business : Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

How to Change the World : Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas
by David Bornstein

Be Bold: Create a Career With Impact
by Cheryl L. Dorsey, Lara Galinsky
 
Conscious Business : How to Build Value Through Values
by Fred Kofman

Megatrends 2010: The Rise of Conscious Capitalism
by Patricia Aburdeen

Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
by Paul Hawken, Hunter S. Lovins, Amory Lovins

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
by William McDonough, Michael Braungart

The Triple Bottom Line: How Today's Best-Run Companies Are Achieving Economic,
Social and Environmental Success -- and How You Can Too
by Andrew Savitz, Karl Weber