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10 College Business Incubators We’re Most Excited About

YoungUpstarts

The Sandbox is designed to accelerate the process of business creation through a 12-week experiential-based program, producing either investment-ready firms or ready-to-go, revenue-generating entities.

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20 Entrepreneurs Share Their Business Goals for 2018

Hearpreneur

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. 3- Triple our revenue and grow our base. We have two key goals for 2018: To grow our user base to more than 1 million and triple our revenue. 1- Efficiency.

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It's time for lean philanthropy: a case study

Startup Lessons Learned

Since then, in about 3 months, we’ve fed over 170,000 people and injected over $1mm into the local economy in San Francisco and Detroit. Today, HelpKitchen is live in two cities (San Francisco and Detroit) and in discussions with several others about expansion.

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

Companies with less than $2 million in revenue were asking for $50-60 million valuations and getting them. Consumers hurting in Detroit or Biloxi will not continue to spend money they don’t have and income they’re not earning. When I first got into the industry it was 2007. was still a term being bandied about.

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Twitter Link Roundup #81 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Hulu On Track To Generate $500 Million In Revenue This Year – [link]. Detroit show sucked – [link]. Interesting perspective from @malbonster about Instagram – [link]. You need to be HUMAN, not amateur, when building communities. Good advice but wrong perspective – [link]. 30 Very Funny Print Ads – [link].

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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. According to the Harvard Business Review, in most U.S.

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21 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I was a veteran in the outdoor advertising industry in chicago and decided to move back to my roots in Detroit and support/build the local economy in the city that made me. The city needed what i’d been working so hard on in all other cities – revenue and advertisers. This is what started Brooklyn Outdoor.