Paul Graham the co-founder of Y Combinator gave a fascinating presentation at Y Combinator startup school this weekend about the similarities between great Internet companies and non-profits in this presentation about Being Good.

Paul also posted an essay version of this speech on his website.

This speech reminds me of many of the conversations that Alex and I had when co-founding Akoha. 

We were brainstorming about social entrepreneurship, our experiences in trying to make the world a better place at Zero-Knowledge Systems and our believe that there was an opportunity to make improving the world fun.  We discussed the best approach to implement some of our ideas and decided that a company with a strong social goal made the most amount of sense.

This lead to one of the principle questions that Akoha has been designed to answer.  "What if playing a game could make the world a better place?"

We look forward to sharing Akoha with the world later this year and sharing how we think we can help everyone Be Good together.

Thanks to Heri @ Montreal Tech Watch for the link.