"If you are not scaring yourself as an entrepreneur - you are playing it way to close to the comfort zone. Fear can be a great motivator." - Debbie Allen, International Speaker & Author

Thank you for the WES summit where I was very glad to meet John Caswell of Group Partners http://www.grouppartners.net We later met and spoke about my Minciu Sodas laboratory's interest to create a Public Domain version of their approach to solving problems (Discovering - Developing - Deciding - Deploying). http://www.grouppartners.net/extra/4d My lab, Minciu Sodas, serves and organizes independent thinkers around the world, some of whom are entr... [read more]

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alex stobart: Andrius I had to go to see your client thelawfirm 1) their page takes ages to load 2) their "blog" here http://www.the-l-a-w-firm.com/blog/ has no content ! Nothing since February 2008. This is not a good sign I don't think. Either take it down or po... [read more]

Andrius Kulikauskas: Alex, Thank you for your replies here and at our directory! I will share them also at our lab's working group Voiceful http://groups.yahoo.com/group/voiceful/ and you are welcome to join us there (send a blank message to voiceful-subscribe@yahoogroup... [read more]

Andrius Kulikauskas: From Leon Benjamin: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/voiceful/message/265 Very rich, interesting conversation. Since we’re making videos about people’s values, Alex’s work is very much an example of what we would be looking for! Alex said; In both the l... [read more]

The future capitalism book which we freely sampled everyone at wes08 has helped lead to and map an extraordinary connection of microeconomist networks from dhaka to paris, to glasgow to berlin, to boston to nairobi as yet not many people are connecting in from macro-capitalism cities of london or NY- if you want to support the 33 year long entrepreneurial revolution http://erworld.tv of microeconomics then please contact me any way you wish us te... [read more]

Download the podcast (22m27s) now which includes interviews from the summit from Jan Mühlfeit, Andy Reinhardt, Oliver Woolley, Katie Ledger, the Kaos Pilots and much more. If you weren't able to get to the event, hopefully it provides a flavour of an excellent day with plenty of ideas to carry discussing here.

Dr Yunus, who provided every wes008 member with a copy of his Future Capitalism and social business entrepreneur networking book is hosting a dialogue day for youth journalists of future capitalism and others determined to help obama go beyond top-down system failures It's the day after his 69th birthday and can be expected to be a bit special - early confirmed partygoers are the BBC broadcaster on nature and polar explorer paul rose june 29 dhak... [read more]

Oliver, Executive Director of the British Business Angel Association (and 46 today!), and director of Investors a network of private investors looking to invest in high growth businesses. He talks to David about the risks and potential rewards facing investors at the moment.

Bill Morrow: Brilliant interview. Have a look at http:/www.angelsden.co.uk for Europe's largest (and more importantly active) angels. The Den funded 4 companies THIS weekend alone and raised over £1.45m for start-ups.

David McQueen is facilitating this chaotic game of buying and selling letters to make a 3 letter word - and make a profit... Videos at Qik - Explanation And on the trading floor

Listen! More from Socialreporter's Audioboo feed here

David Wilcox: This Kaospilots group was from the Netherlands

A group at the World Entrepreneur Summit talked about the future of capitalism that they would like to see ... enjoying the sun in the quad of Goodenough College

Simplicity rules, she points out - It needs to just work to make a difference. Even more so now the technology used at home is creeping underneath the corporate barriers.

Paul Henderson: Listen! More from Katie on female entrepreneurship on Audioboo including give & take and 'portfolio careers'. Is all you need these days a broadband connection and a brain?

Listen! Oli talks to David about speed networking, the Youth Panel this afternoon and teases about the 'Extravaganza' coming up later. Claire O'Halloran from Microsoft explains some of the cross-over between entrepreneurs and technology and the BeSpark programme for developers. Here's what the speed networking looks like - video to come

Paul Henderson: Speed networking video now up

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While I have had to cancel my live participation in the WES Annual Summit, I have videotaped my call for the WES Open Space participants to take up the challenge of thinking about a design for a new version of Capitalism. Here's my video (attached) which I hope will also be shown at the start of the Open Space session...

Paul Henderson: Hi Steve - I've put the video up on the WES Summit Youtube account and embedded it here

Steve Brant: Thanks for doing that, Paul. Not sure why the embedding process didn't work for me... but happy it worked for you! I look forward to following up with people on this very big - but also very do-able - issue. - Steve

Rebecca talks to Alistair Lukies from Monitise on mobile phones, banking and crisis vs opportunity

Chairman of Microsoft Europe and one of today's speaker's Jan Muhlfeit spoke about 'Managing through challenging times' - Rebecca Harding caught up with him after his talk.

David Wilcox and are set up and streaming some live video using Qik here http://qik.com/event/1460/world-entrepreneur-summit-2009/day/1 . Also any pictures posted to Flickr tagged wessummit will appear here http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=wessummit&m=tags and keep an eye on any twittering here http://search.twitter.com/search?q=wessummit The weather is great and we're looking forward to some really interesting conversations

Paul Henderson: You can see all the activity over at http://www.pageflakes.com/wessummit/26199776

I wanted to check in with Rebecca Harding for an update on how preparations for the summit are going, so it seemed a good chance to try out a Skype call with Call Recorder. I think it worked pretty well, and you'll see that I heard there's like to be about 250 people on Friday with an enormous range of different interests. What keeps people awake at nights? Apparently football - as well as some larger problems.

Here are the speaker biographies. Final programme at http://www.wessociety.com/Summit/WES%202009/Programme.aspx

Here are the speaker biographies. Final programme at http://www.wessociety.com/Summit/WES%202009/Programme.aspx

Here are the speaker biographies. Final programme at http://www.wessociety.com/Summit/WES%202009/Programme.aspx

In all the debate about the future of capitalism, there's been little coverage of entrepreneurs, or more particularly a new breed of entrepreneurs coming through who want to make a profit, but equally want to use that profit for social or environmental gain. Yet already emerging from the survey of WES attendees is a very real sense that there are business opportunities in re-modelling capitalism around more socially and environmentally sustainabl... [read more]

Results from a major survey of 1800 growth-oriented entrepreneurs that will be presented at WES on the 20th March suggest that women entrepreneurs are less fazed by recessionary pressures than men. Nearly two thirds of men are worried about the macroeconomic climate compared to just over 50% of women, and men are also more likely to be worrying about their credit profile, about cashflow, profitability, sales, managing teams and accessing finance ... [read more]

The Financial Times has launched a special series on The Future of Capitalism. http://www.ft.com/indepth/capitalism-future It began with an essay by Martin Wolf entitled "Seeds of its own destruction" which is essential reading: http://tinyurl.com/cy2c5z Wolf's essay was picked up by Andrew Leonard of Salon.com, who used it as the basis of "Throwing capitalism into the dustbin of history": http://tinyurl.com/cvwxdz Finally comes "Who will determi... [read more]

David Wilcox: Thanks Steve - great links! Anyone else like to post some? From you writing ... or elsewhere. Also video will work in this system. Just start a discussion, and pop in the embed code. Any problem or guidance needed, let me know.

Rebecca Harding : When the FT starts talking about the future of capitalism, you know there's a problem! Steve - why not upload the video you are playing at WES here - gets the debate going in advance of the open space....

Rebecca Harding : WES Survey results beginning to suggest that entrepreneurs see a set of business opportunities in modelling and understanding the future of capitalism as well as in creating new financial models for the post-collapse world. Does this mean that it is ... [read more]

Team 2 of KaosPilots Netherlands will go on outpost next year. We are looking for an exciting part of the world with an extremely challenging project to work on. The idea is to take our Social Entrepreneurship school into a new socio-economic and cultural context. If you think you have a project that could qualify please share. What elements do you think a project that makes a change in the world should have?

This moment in time is the greatest opportunity to make a difference. I'm passionate about giving business the jump start to think differently about it's future. I use visualization, co-creation and structured dialog to give confidence and respect back to the enterprise.I'm keen to know what you think you can add to how they do that.