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People who think their social business concept is too important or too smart to share with people, and needs to be protected from prying eyes and potential copycats will probably not understand what’s going on at Futureshifters right now.

Social entrepreneurs from around the world are freely sharing their ideas for socially-minded businesses that ought to get started.  The  idea was inspired by Seth Godin.  As Futureshifter Zack Schwartzman explains,

A couple months ago, Seth Godin blogged about a project he gave students in his 6 month MBA course. All 9 students were tasked with coming up with 111 business ideas each, to demonstrate Godin’s contention that ideas are worthless and execution is priceless. To underline this point, all 999 ideas were published free to the world, free for anyone to pick up and execute. You can check them out at http://www.sixmonthmba.com/2009/02/999ideas.html .

The concept of “1% inspiration and 99% perspiration” has been part of the entreprenurial cannon for a long time.  The more interesting aspect of the concept is the relationship – the RNA  – of the two important aspects of entrepreneurship.  Without inspriation, a lot of hard work can accomplish very little.  Without hard work, an idea have no impact on the world.  Only in tandem, in creative tension, can they mutually enhance each other in the creation of a thriving new entity.

So, if you’ve got the drive, a team, or some other awesome resources, the ideas are now being open-sourced.  Get over to Futureshifters and see which of these inspiring ideas makes you perspire with excitement.