Will Seattle Become the Capital of Social Entrepreneurship?

"I think there's every reason to believe that Seattle will be the capital of social entrepreneurship in the next ten years," says Brian Howe, an adjunct professor at Seattle School of Law and founder of Hub Seattle , which rents space to social entrepreneurs.

Reason.tv sat down with Howe and Michael "Luni" Libes, a "serial entrepreneur" who has helped build five technology start-ups, to talk about #SocEnt Weekendan an event modeled on the very popular Startup Weekend that endeavors to offer an environment for entrepreneurs to collaborate and bring their ideas to fruition.

Libes and Howe discussed the idea of the "social enterprise," which involves using for-profit enterprise to solve social problems.

"Business men and women think about, 'How am I going to take this small thing and create leverage? How is this going to scale?'" said Howe.

About 5 minutes. Interview by Zach Weissmueller. Filmed and Edited by Weissmueller.

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[MRSketch09]

"How big a house does one man need?" As big as he wants it to be! ;)

[Charles Overturf]

wow, private companies out performing government? who would figure!!!

[Kathy Connor]

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[jonescomplete]

thats nice for you, leave everyone else alone lol

[Tas von Gleichen]

Cool idea turning urban land into farming.

[Boredpersons55]

What the hell are you trying to say? Honestly, I can't make out the point of that statement; it should be easier to type it correctly.

[Otoshima12]

These are really excellent entrepreneurs! Although I lean slightly left-libertarian(VERY slightly) the underlying principles of both movements are the same. Big Business and Big Government have failed their moral obligations and it's time for individual citizens to spark change!

[yakyakyak69]

As long as they don't want to use crony politicians to steal taxpayer "investment" aka "public-private partnerships" aka crony-corporatism aka Fax

[JiffyNo0b]

It's pretty much just a small business started from the ground up. It may or may not do anything useful.

[TheLegalImmigrant05]

hO, oh, the Mayor kicked us off... The mayor gave s nice speech... Jeesh.