PLATFORM:
Square
https://squareup.comSquare offers a variety of products to assist you with your business. Square Register, an iPad app, is the simplest way to accept credit card payments, and has all the features you need to create an elegant experience at your counter. Square Card Reader accepts credit card payments on your Android, iPhone or iPad. Pay with Square is an app for iPhone and Android that links your credit card to your business of choice and let's you pay via the app.
E-nabling The Future
http://enablingthefuture.orgE-NABLE is a growing group of over 800 members who have come together from all over the World to help create and design 3D Printed assistive hand devices for those in need.
Good for Nothing
http://www.goodfornothing.comGood for Nothing is a community of thinkers, do-ers, makers and tinkerers applying their skills and energy to accelerating the work of cause led innovators and change makers; it's about diverse groups of people collaborating together, working in new, faster, fun and better ways by supporting ideas and people that are leading the way to what a flourishing 21st century society might look like.
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Good For Nothing, Thinkers, Innovation
The Adventure Project
http://theadventureproject.orgThe Adventure Project is a non-profit organization established to increase investments in positive social enterprises around the world. Founded in 2010 by Becky Straw & Jody Landers, who met while traveling through Liberia, West Africa. They have joined forces to raise awareness and funds to support the world’s most-effective social ventures.
Startup Weekend
http://startupweekend.orgStartup Weekends are 54-hour events where developers, designers, marketers, product managers and startup enthusiasts come together to share ideas, form teams, build products, and launch startups!
GE
http://www.ge.comGE works on things that matter. The best people and the best technologies taking on the toughest challenges. Finding solutions in energy, health and home, transportation and finance. Building, powering, moving and helping to cure the world. Not just imagining. Doing. GE works.
Collaborative Fund
http://collaborativefund.com/#Collaborative aims to be the leading source of capital and strategic support for creative entrepreneurs who want to change the world. The fund focuses on two themes: the increasing importance of values as they relate to the decisions we make about who we work for, what we buy, and how we spend our time; and the shift from an economy based on hyper-consumption to one based on Collaborative Consumption. These two forces present a significant opportunity for new technologies, products, and services to reinvent how we do business and transform our daily lives.
Local Food Lab
http://www.localfoodlab.comLocal Food Lab is a platform for developing successful innovation and entrepreneurship in local food systems. We offer world-class entrepreneurial education, diverse resources and a robust network of experienced and highly skilled food and farm industry professionals who are inventing the future of food. Our purpose is to enable food and farm entrepreneurs to imagine and grow a new food system, one that is healthy, just and sustainable.
Jumpstart
http://jewishjumpstart.orgJumpstart’s mission is to develop, strengthen, and learn from emerging Jewish organizations that build community at the nexus of spirituality, learning, social activism, and culture, in order to transform the broader Jewish community and the world.
Pave
http://www.pave.comA new online community where people invest in each other, support work that matters, and share in what's achieved. We represent a generation of young people striving to do work that matters and accomplished leaders who recognize the value of investing in them. Our prospects are rebuilding the economy and reinvigorating our culture, but need financial flexibility and wisdom from those whose footsteps they follow. Now, we've created a new way to make that happen - an opportunity both pragmatic and visionary - and we're asking everyone to get involved.
Proximity Designs
http://proximitydesigns.orgProximity Designs is an award winning social enterprise designing products and services that help Myanmar rural families achieve their goals.
Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.orgProject Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free ebooks. Download over 40,000 free ebooks to read on your PC, iPad, Kindle, Nook, iPhone, iPod Touch, Android or other mobile or cell phone.
Keepod
http://keepod.comKeepod believes that computing should be accessible to everyone as well as being more secure and fun. The secure and lightweight operating system, Keepod OS, is designed for users to have their own portable OS, using any PC as nothing more than an empty shell.
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Keepod, Computers, Technology
Natural Machines
http://www.naturalmachines.comOur launch product is a 3D food printer. We call it Foodini. We are using an open capsule model, meaning the consumer prepares and places fresh ingredients in Foodini. Natural Machines is going to make preparing food healthier, easier, and so much fun. Foodini is the first 3D printer to print all types of real, fresh, nutritious foods, from savory to sweet.