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The Intellectual Social Network

Start Up Blog

To make you feel richer, we’ll make them green. Tesla – instead of just building batteries and selling them to Detroit, we are going to build our own cars from scratch plus own the distribution network. — entrepreneurship entrepreneurs intellect quora social networks startups technology'

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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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Microsoft’s Bing Fund will give online startups cash, advice, and discounts

venturebeat.com

Despite the name, the Bing Fund doesn’t require its companies to work with the Bing search engine or the technologies associated with Bing, including speech recognition, image processing, video, local/geo/map technologies, and so forth. Venture capital. Developers. Entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs. Infographics. Management.

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New Markets Mean More Than Just New Area Codes

YoungUpstarts

The Great Plains energy boom is generating millions in income, while Detroit continues to crumble into oblivion. This drives not only the items they purchase–be they food, clothing, technology, vehicles, or anything else–but often the way that they shop. How’s the L.A. market for snow boots? Not promising?

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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. There may have been a time when opening a B&B in the greater Detroit area may have been successful; however, given the economic hardships that area has been facing in the last 10-15 years, it hardly seems like a solid business venture now.

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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

You can't go to Spirit Rock or Green College. New York, of course, being one of the epicenters for the pandemic in our country, but other cities being hit very hard, New Orleans and Detroit, and what's happening in Mississippi right now. And that was $100,000 that came in to bootstrap Chicago and Detroit and Atlanta.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

link] tenthings most business-grads are too arrogant to realize that they are selling technology, not hot air, so they need a tech team to build upon, not a product. Your technology is really cool and working great but no one knows you exist. analyst (sit on butt and react to red light green light alerts all day).