ResearchTalk » Social entrepreneurship http://www.researchtalk.co.uk/rt DATA-DRIVEN INSPIRATION Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:42:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 2006-2007 (ResearchTalk) (ResearchTalk) posts 1440 PRICELESS INSPIRATION FOR FOLKS IN MARKETING, MARKET RESEARCH, PLANNING ADVERTISING ResearchTalk ResearchTalk No no http://www.researchtalk.co.uk/rt/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg ResearchTalk http://www.researchtalk.co.uk/rt 144 144 “Bet on Good People Doing Good Things” http://www.researchtalk.co.uk/rt/2007/08/24/bet-on-good-people-doing-good-things/ http://www.researchtalk.co.uk/rt/2007/08/24/bet-on-good-people-doing-good-things/#comments Fri, 24 Aug 2007 05:26:00 +0000 ResearchTalk http://www.researchtalk.co.uk/rt/2007/08/24/bet-on-good-people-doing-good-things/ That’s something Jeff Skoll, billionaire former president of eBay, learned early on.

He’s now spending his fortune at the movies. His company, Participant Productions, makes entertaining, issues-driven films that inspire real change — Murderball, Syriana, An Inconvenient Truth … In this TED video, he talks about the people who’ve inspired him to do good.

He makes it all sound easy, which of course it’s not. But it’s always good to see another poster child for social entrepreneurship.

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