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Big Benetech Day: All Company and Volunteer Meetings

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We're doing the planning by starting with our team: we did an all-company survey and then yesterday we did a two hour meeting to go over the survey results and discuss them. We are working on a new strategic plan, our first in years (we've been working off of the original Benetech plan with minor updates for 8 years).

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Tribute to My Mentor

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

When I explained that our board just didn’t see manufacturing reading machines for the blind making financial sense for a for-profit company, Gerry said “How about you set up a deliberately nonprofit tech company?”

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Welcome, Mark Roberts!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

With his proven execution in scaling business systems and infrastructures that shaped the growth of award-winning service products for multiple high profile Silicon Valley technology companies, he has the perfect pedigree to spearhead engineering at Benetech as we continue to innovate in the technology-for-good space.

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Josh, a new indie feature film set in Pakistan

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

As someone who has been privileged to attend a handful of previews from Participant Media, Jeff Skoll's socially responsible film production company, I get that the way to truly reach society is through story telling and mass media. In the post-film Q&A, Iram said she aspired to do for Pakistan what Slum Dog Millionaire did for India.

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Unlocking Technology-for-Good Innovation

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The typical incubator model works well where a team has formed around a technology innovation and is looking to graduate a for-profit company. It winnows out 90% or more of them and incubates the selected teams, getting their companies into the best possible shape and refining their pitch to investors. Let me explain how this is so.

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Caltech: Founding Values

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Top tech companies like Google, Facebook and IBM have figured out how to make vast quantities of money by giving away their core product, or building products on top of open source and free software. The thrill of solving problems, of figuring something out, and bringing that understanding into the service of humanity.

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Majora Carter’s Eco-Entrepreneurship

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SB] 2 offers programs in technology, engineering, design and entrepreneurship to local youth, and supports local, early-stage companies. [SB] As a pragmatic idealist, Majora acknowledges that asking companies to do good can only go so far. SB] 2 is but part of Majora’s multi-pronged strategy for urban renewal.

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