Friday, May 25, 2012

Office Freakout of the Week â Starto Episode 3

Office Freakout of the Week â€
www.starto.tv Whiteboard Session - Mike Stemple, CEO of Mosoro Inc., discusses his process of Trendmapping in order to identify future trend convergence and build companies around these opportunities. STARTO â€" THE show for the American Entrepreneur http "We are in the process of discovering what crowd-funding + crowd-sourcing + the age of network intelligence means for humanity. Starto can help embolden, educate, and equip a new generation of entrepreneurs and problem solvers, and a new generation of companies. We are entering a perfect storm for innovation, one that just might rescue the global economy, and improve the quality of life for billions of people." â€"Eric Byler, Starto Executive Producer Social entrepreneurship expands opportunities for crowd-funding and building a customer base because consumers care about America, care about humanity, and care about the earth. The major technological challenges facing humanity have been plaguing us for decades if not hundred! s of years, and they aren't being solved by existing organizations. In the 21st century, We the People will have a say about what companies get funded (see Starto Episode 2), and what goals these companies seek to achieve. Profiteers seeking to maximize profit at the expense of all else, and politicians seeking to consolidate power at the expense of all else, have proven to be a formula for disaster. What now? We can't count on a "silver bullet" to save us; we need to create a collaborative, socially ...