We need some work done on the Bethnal Green Ventures site. We put out an open call, sent via networks to folk, to twitter, and on our blog. We had quite a few responses, all with some sort of reasonable-ish budget attached. And we invited a few people in to meet. See, we wanted to […]
Quite a few of my writery friends have been shouting in despair about how big data is being used to profile screenplays. The long & short of the article is that, contrary to public belief, there is something of a formula to building hollywood blockbusters, and that certain things can reduce take in a film. […]
So it’s international women’s day. As Adam Roberts says, I’m not so worried about that as there are 364 International Men’s Days. We’ve been thinking about women a lot at Bethnal Green Ventures. We’ve taken the apparently controversial decision to state “We particularly welcome applications from women” during our call for ideas. We’ve received […]
I’ve been thinking again, about grace as a combination of gratefulness and generosity. Not sure if it holds up, but I think there Generosity With our work at the Social Innovation Camp and Bethnal Green Ventures, we’ve found astoundingly generous people all over the world. From government workers willing to give up their time, […]
…with, perhaps, some lessons for most everything else. I went to the launch of my old dean Colin Mayer’s new book Firm Commitment a few days ago. I’ve just dipped into the book briefly but the associated lecture (and this article) got me thinking. The brief version of the lecture says, in essence, “The […]
At work we’ve been sitting on some excellent news since before Christmas: Bethnal Green Ventures, our for-profit accelerator programme, is going to be back in 2013, bigger and better than ever. What we’ll be doing, along with our partners the Cabinet Office, Nesta and Nominet Trust, is taking super early stage teams and giving them […]
Our Chancellor and coalition lead have been echoing the US for a while, trying to drive a wedge into the lives of those on benefits into strivers & skivers. I hate this. People are long-term unemployed for a massive range of reasons, and some of the benefit cuts really don’t make sense. I saw this […]
In my – and the British Council‘s – infinite wisdom, I went to Cairo last week. There’s been a revolution, there’s an election coming up, and the BC and my company thought that there might be some opportunities for the creative & cultural sector in Egypt to do something interesting. Turns out, we were […]
Well, I’m back. Sorry for the long times between updates, but things’ve been mad and blogging has been… less of a priority. My life isn’t fair I’ve been very lucky in my role with Social Innovation Camp which has in the past year or so, taken me to five countries on two continents, with an […]
On Purpose has just opened its new Call for Associates On Purpose is run by a very clever group of people, and they help people migrate into the Social Enterprise space. I wish this programme had existed for me 5 years ago, as I’d have jumped on the chance (not that I wish I did […]