Brainstorming re: MTF
What will we write about?
- S2Gaming (Kalamazoo, MI) – Small gamaing company
- Mojhang, Inc. – Stockholm, Sweden
- Tom Shoes – Charity work + existing company (give shoes to kids who don’t have them when you buy a pair)
- [ Girl from Minnesota ] – Harm’s Way for Kids. Makes bracelets for troops… 1M bracelets… (18yrs old)
- Rob Dyrdek (pro skater) – crazy entrepreneur/investor, foster/grow sport in new areas
- Johnny Cupcakes – T-shirts, NY (?), bakery/apparel
- Life is Good(tm), started out of a van
- Matter of Trust – collect hair to make oil spill cleanup mats
- Post Secret
- Small business / individual entrepreneurship (eg. family member starting business)
- NFL Play 60 – children’s charity by NFL players
- [ Local charity ] Sell products made by the disabled, profit back into local community
- GMC Chevy – Why the buyout?
- Saturn – again, success/failure questions — why?
- Hummer… (all on the theme of “things that failed”)
- [ To Write Love on Her Arms ] – social org/business
- Facebook vs. MySpace?
- RED(tm) – Bono’s … project
- Firefox – originator was 15, doing well at this point
- Invisible Children
- Heifer International
- David Carr, Tumblr founder
- Gas price fluctuation/oil spills…
- Dawn – P&G – Corporate sponsorship/donation schemes/incentives/projects
- Tide – Loads of Hope
- Perez Hilton – Celeb blogger, now a celeb
- 5 Guys Burger & Fries
- McDonalds
- Wal-Mart
- Starbucks
- Keurig
- Monsanto – subsidized seed/corn
- Bing, Blackle – why smaller, energy, social angles…
- Krispy Kreeme?
- National Wildlife Foundation
- PETA
- Whole Foods
- Charles Schwab – Dyslexia foundation
- Apple
- Annheiser-Bush Budweiser (US)
- The microbrew industry
- Micro vs. mega (name industry)
- Special Olympics
- Purmanti’s (sandwich company)
- Gary Vanderchuck (sp) – wine guy/social media
- Walt Disney
- Bill Gates
- Steve Jobs
- Mike Sheldrake – env conscious surfboards
- Seth Godin – author/blogger, domino book project (Amazon partnership)
- Greg Mortenson – 3 Cups of Tea
- iTunes – music industry transformation (Napster, perhaps?)
- Hulu
- Netflix / RedBox – movie industry
- — (Demise of the video store?)
- Prof. chef store/food culture in CA
- Ben & Jerry’s
- Founder of Tesla – PayPal
- Boardwalk artists – the individual crafter/artist
- Richard Branson
- Tobacco pricing industry variation
- Locks of Love
- Pantene charity (related?) – Great Lengths
- Charity and Gender
- (are charities viewed as gendered?) – race, socioeconomic divisions/questions?
- Harlem educational initiative – … (need to google to find out more)
- Technology (a bit broad – Apple, Microsoft)
- Open Source movement (perhaps focus on one)
- Susan Kalman for the cure – NFL wearing pink, rise of social movement/branding
- TFA (Teach for America)
- Livestrong (DeepLocal, Chalkbot)
- Larry Lessig
- Exec producer of Greek. Allegheny alum?
- Paul Watson – eco terrorist/conservationist – Whale Wars
- Pres/VP of KDK (alumna?)
- Alumni stories
- Ruby on Rails team (language, environment for web programming)
- Boxtops for Education
What about businesses and things that failed? (Eg. all online pet stores from the 1990′s.)
History/Current/Future