Put together by the Google Foundation, this video while an hour long is more than interesting and well worth watching by any aspiring social entrepreneur. It focuses on the Ashoka Foundation, but so much more.
Ashoka: Innovators for the Public is a nonprofit organization supporting the field of social entrepreneurship. Ashoka was founded by Bill Drayton in 1981 to [...]

9 Jul 2010  Inspirational

A while ago we posted the top films for entrepreneurs, we continue today by talking about those TV shows that entrepreneurs should watch.
Aside from general entertainment, they also offer learning value to the up and coming entrepreneur, in no order of priority here they are, and of course should you have any recommendations please let [...]

6 Jul 2010  Video Series

… before arriving at day two it is worth continuing with the finance theme just to add that yes ‘cash is king’ but growth is proportional to your necessary funds for operation, therefore, model your cash needs according to the expected or desired success of your business. Also, be as creative as possible when looking [...]

30 Jun 2010  Inspirational

It would be easy to think that f3fundit launched this competition just to find a winner and give away some money. In fact the greater purpose behind this exercise was to demonstrate that there are many ventures worthy of our attention that stand to benefit and improve their chances of success through the two day [...]

29 Jun 2010  Inspirational

The first edition of “Next Top Startup” took place in Barcelona over the course of June 16th and 17th. Contestants braved the journey from as far afield as South Africa and Brazil just to take part in the competition so at f3fundit we believed it was extremely important to give the participants real added value, [...]

22 Jun 2010  Events

design should never compromise functionality, nor should functionality ever compromise design
Design is something that start ups tend to miss, forget about, or pay little attention to, and this is especially true for those with an engineering background.
Engineers tend to think that as long as it’s functional, and works right, it will appeal to the masses, [...]

21 Jun 2010  General Business

Cut and dry, if you can’t tell me what your entrepreneurial project does in a sentence, you’ve got a problem.
I can’t begin to tell you how common a mistake it is among budding entrepreneurs to delve into the mundane details of their projects. It usually starts off like this.
“We at New Mobile Platforms Ltd. have [...]

9 Jun 2010  Entrepreneurship

There’s a reason why firms pay top money for MBA interns from some of the top schools across Europe and the U.S. They’re worth it. So the question is… how can you capitalize on what large established companies such as Goldman and McK have known and used for years?
Well, here’s the good news. On average [...]

8 Jun 2010  Education & MBA

This should be a no brainer but you’d be surprised juts how often people think that “I’ve got a website, I’ve added some tags, worked on some SEO, and that should be enough to get traffic to my site.” The sad truth is that this method will get you traffic, but organic growth is so [...]

When we started planning for Next Top Startup, we had in mind that the first installment of the event would span maybe two to three European countries, and that if we’d get any traction whatsoever from across a major body of water, it would be excellent and a successful achievement on it’s own.
We had no [...]

4 Jun 2010  Events