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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

“Our best chance to make the world better is to agree that the choice among corporate structures should be made entirely in service of social impact,” says Rich Leimsider, the Vice President of Fellowship Programs at Echoing Green, a nonprofit that invests with social entrepreneurs. Maryland was the first U.S.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

My longtime friend Marion Jenkins, CEO of IT consultant QSE Technologies wrote what I think is one of the most eloquent and well thought out rebuttals to the proposed Colorado “Software Tax” (HB 1192). My family and I have lived in Colorado (Centennial) for nearly 12 years. With his permission I’m posting it here in its entirety.

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Introducing Colorado Entrepreneurial By Nature

VC Adventure

I’ve had the great fortune to experience the evolution and transformation of Colorado into a community that I believe is one of the most supportive of entrepreneurs anywhere in the country. Head to the Colorado Entrepreneurial by Nature website and download the badge (it comes in a number of different colors and sizes).

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Little Colorado Company MobileDay Finds Big Hole In Enterprise Bucket

Feld Thoughts

Its popularity comes from One-Touch Dialing where users press a big green button that shows up on their phone just before a conference call and they’re in. If MobileDay could make their big green button also dial the cheapest number automatically, companies could save an enormous amount of money. One-Touch Dialing proved that.

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ReturnShip Program, Part III

OnlyOnce

The launch was coincident with a visit to our office by Congressman Jared Polis , who represents our district in Colorado, as part of his Startup Day Across America visit to the district, which was exciting for us. v3 of the program is poised to take the concept to the next level.

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Branding Colorado

VC Adventure

Last week at the conclusion of the COIN Summit Colorado released an new brand for the state. The idea was to identify a unifying brand that could represent Colorado across a wide variety of uses (both inside the state and outside). Personally, I like the new logo a lot and I think it was time for Colorado to update its image.

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Leadership Lessons To Help Guide You To Excellence

Duct Tape Marketing

He’s out with yet another co-authored book with Nancye Green called — Tom Peters’ Compact Guide to Excellence. He's single-handedly invented, and he's out with yet another co-authored book, uh, co-authored with Nancy Green, entitled Tom Peters Compact Guide to Excellence. Uh, Nancy Green is no slouch on her own, right?