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The Story Of A Young Entrepreneur Building A Better World With A Nonprofit

Duct Tape Marketing

Camden is the Founder and CEO of the Nonprofit Organization Beyond the Crisis Beyond the Crisis, the food-distribution charity, which has distributed over 100,000 dollars of food items to housing communities and homeless shelters across Massachusetts. This is John Jan, and my guest today is Camden Francis.

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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. Maryland was the first U.S.

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Design Museum Boston

Up and Running

There are over 60,000 designers working in Massachusetts alone — the state is well past the national average when it comes to professional designers. In lieu of a physical space we’d launch a website that would link the design community and our audience with our network of exhibitions and events across the city. Stay tuned!).

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Entrepreneurial Journey Takes Melvin Brewing To Denver’s Heights and Beyond

The Startup Magazine

The brewery has experienced a high level of success in the regional market, with a wide distribution in Wyoming and a satellite brewpub in Bellingham, Washington. With the move to the 30-barrel facility, they were able to distribute their product on a larger scale and bottle it for remote distribution. Early Developments.

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The Playbook for Scale Up Nation

Seeing Both Sides

According to Izhar Shay, a general partner at Canaan Partners, “The investment community has matured to recognize they need to plan for scale. headquarters, in Massachusetts, to immerse the team in the American market. “At This evolving model is being supported and encouraged by the local Israeli VCs.

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Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets

ReadWriteStart

Chak has been able to get a couple of distributors in Singapore to buy his greeting cards designed by a community of artists, but is struggling to find a steady, repeatable model. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year.

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How Electric Companies Are Supporting Energy Conservation Efforts

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Energy efficiency measures can include lighting upgrades that improve illumination, new appliance standards and targets, vehicle fuel economy goals, zoning reforms to promote walkable communities, and other efforts. Distribution transformers, which adjust voltage and current for customers, are another opportunity for large reductions.