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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

I can now give back to my community in ways that would not have been possible earlier. That's one of my motivations in pursuing my family real estate business in New Jersey. 14- To solve issues in the beauty community. The plan was to solve those issues not only for us but for others in the beauty community.

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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

it is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit, but because of its dedication to sustainability, it is now working with local communities to form separate stove manufacturing factories in their countries. Here in the U.S. InStove contributes both the technology for efficient stoves, and the means to create sustainable jobs. “Our Maryland was the first U.S.

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How to Start a Movement

Ben's Blog

A few months ago, my friend Joe Green sent me a video titled, “ The Internet is My Religion ”: In it, Jim Gilliam gives us a short tour of his life’s story. So Jim created a company to develop software to organize communities and get results and he called it NationBuilder. Alex is now the youngest mayor in the history of New Jersey.

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What Is a Benefit Corporation?

Up and Running

It’s a fairly new structure, with the first one of its kind coming into existence in 2010, but since then it has rapidly taken off. Other corporations may claim to be green or socially responsible, but becoming a benefit corporation shows the public that you are putting your money where your mouth is. appeared first on Bplans Blog.

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Immigration is Key to Entrepreneurial Economy

The Entrepreneurial Mind

we look within specific ethnic communities in the US, recent immigrants. rates of self-employment than native-born in these ethnic communities. owners are concentrated in certain states, including California, New. York, New Jersey, Florida, and Hawaii. In addition to a "green card" for. Immigrant business.

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In Defense of Unreasonableness – Saving the California Coast

Steve Blank

It was the Coastal Act that saved California from looking like the coast of New Jersey. I was appointed to the Coastal Commission by a governor hoping to find a candidate with “green enough” credentials who would be “reasonable” and understand how “compromises” are made in California politics.

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Out of the Crisis #16: Robert Schooley on why we weren't prepared, long-term thinking, and how to make decisions for the greater good.

Startup Lessons Learned

We have a large number of American citizens, American green card holders who have gotten sick in Mexico and are coming back to the US for care. The overall number of new cases in the US had been decreasing. And I was training in East Baltimore at the time and most of my patients were intercity members of the Baltimore community.