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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

An excellent example of a social enterprise is The Empowerment Plan —an organization that hires people currently living in homeless shelters to create a combination winter coat, sleeping bag, and over-the-shoulder bag, which is then distributed to the homeless of Detroit free of charge. Here in the U.S.

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Out of the Crisis #7, Brian Chesky Part 1: running Airbnb in crisis mode, being multi-stakeholder, and re-founding the company

Startup Lessons Learned

I've known Brian Chesky, Co-Founder, CEO and Head of Community at Airbnb for a long time. Brian Chesky : I am Brian Chesky, co-founder, CEO, and head of community at Airbnb. At the time it was called the green movement. Well the same could be viewed as a community, a marketplace, social media company, anything.

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Out of the Crisis #9, the founders of Frontline Foods on the moral imperative to support frontline workers at scale

Startup Lessons Learned

Thanks to thousands of donations, the people who are dedicated to feeding their communities have the opportunity to serve their food to the people providing critical healthcare. You can't go to Spirit Rock or Green College. Have you found ways to be in a community of practice, in spite of those obstacles?

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How to Start a Bed and Breakfast

Up and Running

Without the green light from the zoning commission, you will not be able to move forward. It is crucially important that your B&B is located within a community that has a proven tourism track record and a local economy that can support it.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

A good mentor is someone who has been part of the startup community themselves – someone who has a realistic understanding of some of the basic dos and don’ts of starting up. analyst (sit on butt and react to red light green light alerts all day). And I’m sure they won’t mind community college either.