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Paul Graham, founder of ycombinator, discusses the value of benevolence when working with tech startups.

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innocent drinks recently had a visit from the folks at LeapAnywhere.com and they were kind enough to take a camera crew around with them so that we can all have a peak inside!

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In his heartwarming talk from this year’s TEDGlobal in Oxford Jonathan Zittrain discusses various random acts of kindness from the online world.

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Yesterday Martha Lane Fox, co-founder of LastMinute.com, was placed at No. 25 in the Telegraph’s 50 Most Influential Briton’s in Technology.
Back in 1997, with business partner Brent Hoberman, she started LastMinute.com which became one of the hits of the UK’s dot-com era.

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Here’s a round-up of all the posts from the LovelyCompanies.com blogroll that I’ve starred recently in my Google Reader. Feedback on this experimental post format is very welcome!

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In the last year, SuperJam boss Fraser Doherty has held over 120 Tea Parties bringing elderly people together and helping them make friends (previous coverage: here and here). Just recently, Fraser’s efforts were rewarded at the ‘Bighearted Scotland Awards’ where he scooped a specially created award as Scotland’s Young Business Person of the Year. The [...]

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In his talk from TEDGlobal 2009 Geoff Mulgan, a former Policy Director for Tony Blair, suggests we take the opportunity presented by the global economic crisis to consider a shift of focus towards investing in social innovation.

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Beautiful World is a London-based agency for charities, non-profits and ‘any organization that does the world some good’. The three founding partners of the company each bring their speciality to the mix giving clients a neat blend of strategy, creative and data. Where traditional agencies might be all about old-school print media, these guys are [...]

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At the end of July this year online book retailer Amazon acquired lovely company Zappos. We’ve written about Zappos a few times before and they have even helped to inspire other lovely companies.

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Below are the slides from Dave McClure’s talk at TEDxShanghai in June:

Dave admits that he’s “not really a financial engineering expert” however he is “optimistic the basic ideas here are viable, worthwhile and can have substantial economic impact on society in the future.”

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I’ve been a fan of Alain de Botton for some time now so I was very excited to learn that he spoke at TEDGlobal in Oxford back in July. Do take a moment to watch his talk above.
A couple of choice quotes:
It’s perhaps easier now, than ever before, to make a good living. It’s perhaps [...]

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Gary Vaynerchuk’s ‘Scaling Caring’ talk delivered at the recent 140Conf in New York.
Other Gary Vee posts on LovelyCompanies.com: Profile, How to react to your website getting hacked, The Future of Communities.

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I’d like you to meet Andrew Warner. You may already recognise the name as back in January we featured an interview of his about Zappos customer service. Incidentally, that post has been one of our most popular in the last few months!
Andrew runs Mixergy.com where he publishes interviews with successful entrepreneurs so that ‘ambitious [...]

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Jacqueline Novogratz, founder and CEO of the Acumen Fund and author of The Blue Sweater, shares stories of how “patient capital” can bring sustainable jobs, goods, services – and dignity – to the world’s poorest.

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My friend Jonny Philp (founder of OW! Health) recently sent me a link to a video of one of the Method cofounders talking about his company. We’ve written about Method before here. See what you think of this:

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Last week I had lunch with Fabio De Benardi who is behind a delightful little website called ilikeucoz.
Billed as the world’s first appreciation engine, ilikeucoz is a free service that lets you send little messages of appreciation to your friends and loved ones. There is a nifty appreciation feed on the site’s homepage (they [...]

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Last week was TED week in Long Beach, California. The conference (which we’ve written about before) gives the stage to some of the most fascinating people from around the world to talk for twenty minutes about any topic close to their heart. The talks are then published online, free for all to watch.
The [...]

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“Fraser Doherty always loved jam.” So starts the blurb on his website Superjam.co.uk. When Fraser (”Jam boy”) was 14, his Gran shared her jam secrets with him and after developing the healthiest jam recipe he could, he pitched the idea to the supermarkets. Soon his Superjam range was flying off the shelves!
Since launching [...]

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Gary Vaynerchuk is an American businessman who took over the family business – rebranding it as Wine Library – at a young age and transformed it from a local store into a $50m national industry leader. Every weekday he records an episode of Wine Library TV in which he tastes different wines with his [...]

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One of the scariest things that can happen to anyone with a website is to see it get hacked.
A few weeks ago a site called Corkd.com, run by Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV, was hacked into, a story which made the front page of TechCrunch.
In a flash, Gary was on the scene with an [...]

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