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Amazing: Empower People to Create – Bamboo Bike Studio
Teaching people to make bamboo bicycles is awesome.
Amazing people doing amazing things — it’s inspirational, it’s motivating, it’s, well…amazing. Good things happen when you can identify a problem to fix, be it simple, technical, or social.
At Intern Inc., we’re hoping to help bridge the gap between employers and students entering the job market in a difficult time with the power of social networking. It’s exciting to meet new people and share our story. The Denver and Boulder areas have a great startup buzz and nous. But there’s always an extra element of excitement when a startup has an inherently altruistic mission.
Enter the Bamboo Bike Studio.
The problem: How do you help people get around in a sustainable, low-impact way?
The answer: Teach people how to make their own bicycles out of bamboo.
Some folks visit the Brooklyn bike studio to build their own new bike. But the real appeal is where “self-propulsion and sustainable entrepreneurship go hand in hand.” Supporting bamboo bike factories in Africa and South America, the three 20-somethings behind Bamboo Bike Studio are creating a positive solution to an everyday problem while simultaneously putting the power of creation back into people’s hands.
Justin Aguinaldo, Marty Odlin and Sean Murray represent a form of exciting and admirable social entrepreneurship.
And we think it’s an amazing thing.
From Mashable: Foursquare Nearing 1M Checkins Daily
Foursquare — the social site for sharing your location (restaurants, bars, coffee shops, etc.) — is homing in on 1 million checkins a day, according to their Twitter and this Mashable article.
Do you use Foursquare? Perhaps more importantly — do enough of your friend use it to warrant your own use?