Unlike traditional business entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs primarily seek to generate "social value" rather than profits. And unlike of non-profit organizations, their work is targeted not only towards immediate, small-scale effects, but sweeping, long-term change.
A social entrepreneur identifies and solves social problems on a large scale. Just as business entrepreneurs create and transform whole industries, social entrepreneurs act as the change agents for society, seizing opportunities others miss in order to improve systems, invent and disseminate new approaches and advance sustainable solutions that create social value.
The following video give a brief presentation on what is social entrepreneurship ?
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Steve Jobs 1955 - 2011
The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience
At his Stanford University commencement speech, Steve Jobs, CEO and co-founder of Apple and Pixar, urges us to pursue our dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks -- including death itself.
( For french subtitles http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5m47b_vostfr-steve-jobs-stanford-commenc_news )
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