http://www.netsquared.org/tags/purpose share stories about how web-based technologies are impacting people’s lives build toolkits for nonprofits around the globe to help extend their good work en-US http://www.netsquared.org/blog/jeff-mowatt/business-for-profit-profit-for-purpose-purpose-for-people <p>A business working in what&#39;s regarded as nonprofit territory gets some strange reactions,&nbsp; incomprehension that you&#39;re doing stuff with your own funds rather than someone elses.</p> <p>Whether anyone else here is in similar circunstances, I don&#39;t know but there are two most common. &quot;You&#39;re doing this stuff and you&#39;re a business, you must be a liar and a crook&quot; more amusing the response when in Russia &quot;You want to create businesses for total strangers, you must be crazy, or a communist&quot;</p> <p>Well I hope we&#39;re not taken as liars and crooks, the rest I&#39;m more ambivalent about. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.netsquared.org/blog/jeff-mowatt/business-for-profit-profit-for-purpose-purpose-for-people">read more</a></p> http://www.netsquared.org/blog/jeff-mowatt/business-for-profit-profit-for-purpose-purpose-for-people#comments business people profit purpose Fri, 23 Mar 2007 06:47:09 -0400 Jeff Mowatt 2527 at http://www.netsquared.org