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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. with many more states pending legislation.

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Entrepreneurs And Small Businesses Thrive With These 5 Tech Tools

YoungUpstarts

These days, it’s not uncommon for companies large and small to be completely distributed, i.e., have a wholly remote workforce. NY based global hedge fund (later acquired by Citigroup), and also worked for Castle Harlan, a leading $6B NYC-based buyout firm. Additionally, Eyal was one of the first employees of Old Lane, a $5.5B

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20 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Industry With The Most Optimist Future

Hearpreneur

Before starting my own company, I spent 5 years working at the University of Pennsylvania working amongst some of the best minds. Future technological advances will only bring more creativity and ingenuity into the world of publishing and it will be coming from self-published authors. Thanks to Darshan Somashekar, Solitaired App ! #14-

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Embracing Mortality: How to Live a Life Without Regret

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She's a speaker, author, assistant instructor in the Master of applied Positive Psychology program at the University of Pennsylvania and founder of 4,000 Mondays. I mean nothing like a global pandemic to wake us up to our temporary nature. The one thing I will say that's lacking a little bit, and this is just I have a distributed team.

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The Lightspeed Batphone?—?Welcome Brian Kasser and Meredith Kendall

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Brian Kasser most recently led the global Software and SaaS Practice for Russell Reynolds Associates, based in Palo Alto. He received his MBA in finance from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Meredith started out at Google HQ on the Global Communications & Public Affairs team.

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Oksana?s Story: Geoffrey Frost

Austin Startup

THE IMPORTANCE OF GENDER PARTNERSHIP ‘The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.’ It combined the thrill of problem solving for some of top global companies with the even bigger thrill of always being part of a high performing team that tackled those problems shoulder to shoulder. WOMEN’S STORIES OF MALE ALLIES?—?THE

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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