{"id":138,"date":"2007-01-25T12:43:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T11:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blueventures.org\/blog\/?p=138"},"modified":"2007-01-25T12:43:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-25T11:43:00","slug":"bvs-social-enterprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/en\/bvs-social-enterprise\/","title":{"rendered":"BV&#8217;s Social Enterprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Blue Ventures&#8217; founder Alasdair Harris was recently highly commended in the Young Enterprising Brits Award and received his honour over breakfast with Gordon Brown in Downing Street. Following Enterprise week in November 2006 a video was developed summarising all the shortlisted projects (follow link below BV is at about 1min 45). 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