The last 2 months have been a roller-coaster ride… especially for those that have been part of the 60-day challenge. The programme to designing a viable business model for ideas that matter started on the 6th of April. But in…
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| June 4, 2013
Thomas Vaassen: “We tend to tell each other what we know, not what we want to discover.”
I asked Thomas Vaassen how he became a social entrepreneur.
“My housemates and I were really bored studying international business. We started reading different books, and were inspired by Ken Wilber. Discussing and philosophizing over a glass of beer, took…
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The FIA Junior World Rally Championship 2013 is the first to be held on bio fuel. A huge step forward in the world of car racing. Edward Goossens from GUTTS explains us how they made this happen.
“I started…
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| May 31, 2013
Plannen voor een onderneming in een ontwikkelingsland?
Maak een vliegende start met de Summer School van Ondernemen Zonder Grenzen.
Twee jaar geleden bemachtigde Bahareh Panjeh Shahi investeringsgeld voor haar onderneming van ‘Kiss&Tell’ via de business plan competitie Ondernemen Zonder Grenzen. Bahareh wilde een ecofashion label…
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| May 24, 2013
Know your electronics
Only a few weeks away from the first HUB Learn module, starting on the 10th of June: Story of Stuff.
We hereby like to already give you some information to let your brains start crunching on. Such as electronic consumer…
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| May 16, 2013
Burning Questions from start-ups
It’s been a while, but it’s time to give you an update on the 60-day challenge. 18 participants started on April 6 and are half way the program. Patrick van der Pijl, co-designer of this challenge wrote an interesting blog…
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| May 1, 2013
High-tech 4 the severely disabled
Imagine a young woman of 20 years old, paralyzed from the neck down due to a car accident. The only body part she can move is her head, making her dependant on others for every little thing. Now imagine this…
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| May 1, 2013
Visiting HUB Stockholm
People often ask how being a global network practically works out. How do people meet, connect and talk when there are so many HUBs even more members? Members tap into the collective wisdom & network of HUB members all over…
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| April 26, 2013
Translocal collaboration to scale up!
Peer-to-peer theorist Michel Bauwens recently reflected after a visit to HUB Amsterdam, “In these experimental laboratories of collaborative practice, what we are doing is building not just a civic infrastructure for cooperation, but also a new culture, the production of…
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| April 24, 2013
A commons-based-society: beyond Peer2Peer
Speaker Session with Michel Bauwens – the commons-based-society goes beyond Peer2Peer
On April 18 the HUB launched the Speaker Session series with Michel Bauwens. As a Peer2Peer thought leader, he drew a crowd of P2P frontrunners, supporters and researchers. He…
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