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The 10 Greatest Social Entrepreneurs Of All Time

YoungUpstarts

His business has been so successful that experts and ideas from it are being exported to South Africa, India, Palestine, Senegal, and Turkey. While it is admirable to build a successful business of any kind, some entrepreneurs do more than just make a profit with the fruits of their labor. Some actually help others, bringing resources, opportunities, training, and other assets to those who need them most.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Top 10 Tech Trends To Watch

ReadWriteStart

However, Deborah is looking for ways to sell her low carbon footprint green house technology to producers, and is in conversations with producers in Senegal and India. We started this week's roundtable with a discussion of the top 10 tech trends to watch for the upcoming decade. The trends include Cloud computing, outsourcing, social Web, vertical and local Web, smartphones and tablets, online advertising, online video, online gaming, e-books, and bootstrapped entrepreneurship.

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Many Many Moments of Lift

Reid Hoffman

While Melinda was writing about development efforts in Senegal, she could just as easily have been talking about Silicon Valley. Photo credit: Prashant Panjiar / Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. More than 122 million lives saved. Hundreds of millions people lifted out of extreme poverty.

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