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Here are some recent articles and links that I found through social media. Enjoy! For Social Entrepreneurs: Discussion: Where Does One Start? (Social Edge) Starting a Social Enterprise: Discussion on @socialedge hosted by @saulgarlick founder of @thinkimpact. #socent How to Find a Social Innovation Job (Innov8social) 44 tips for finding a job in social innovation. via @Innov8Social #jobs #socent (Check out tip #17!) Start-Up Accelerator and […]

Have you heard of the Myer’s Briggs test? It’s a famous personality test, which I think at best is a great starting point to thinking about who you really are and the situations in which you thrive most. I just found, through Facebook, a free version of the test and took it. Learn more about […]

It’s only recently that I’ve come to appreciate the things I’ve learned simply from being raised in a Japanese family. I’ve found that there are words in the Japanese language that have shaped the way I think, and that some of these words don’t translate into English easily. Ikigai is one of those words. According […]

This is a blog post I wrote for the Hub LA blog regarding our second Founding Member Mixer. This time the magic happened at Caña Rum Bar, in Downtown Los Angeles.  To quote a Hub LA Founding Member in attendance, “…walked into a room with a few dozens strangers, left a few hours later feeling I […]

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition; they somehow know […]

This is a blog post I wrote for the Hub LA blog (http://thehubla.com), regarding Social Media Week Los Angeles 2011, where I had the opportunity to speak during the workshop, “Solving Problems Using Social Media [Social Good Day].” I was working independently as a social media consultant for bars and events throughout Los Angeles during […]

Biosphere 1 is earth, Biosphere 2 is a fully enclosed man-made environment built on earth to study the connectivity between organisms on our planet. In the early 1990s, 8 scientists (four women and four men), lived in the Biosphere 2 for two full years. I spoke to two of them yesterday. Mindshare LA is my […]

Life’s been a whirlwind of excitement since I found myself in a newly appointed position as Events Director for the Hub LA. Having started my post-college life in the web-based tech start-up scene of Santa Monica, I’m intrigued to find myself amidst a whole new breed of entrepreneurs: Social Entrepreneurs. The terminology around these concepts are […]

If you’re interested in networking and mingling with ambitious people who have unreasonable goals, or if you’re one of them, you might like some of these events. These were collected from Startup Digest, Coloft, and the event hosts themselves. Let me know if you know any more. Wednesday July 6th, 2011 Digital LA – SAG […]

I believe, like many others, that this is a bubble, just look at all the signs that point to why it is (booming IPOs both in number and performance). However, assuming every bubble is different, there are a few factors worth noting that makes this time around different from the last, hopefully for the better. […]