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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. “Our What does a social enterprise look like?

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Fixing immigration for startups: What the US government can (and should) do right now

The Next Web

The system prevents entrepreneurs from being able to create companies that have the potential to change how we live and create hundreds or thousands jobs in the process, and prevents technology startups from being able to hire talent they need to succeed. A green card. I was the first Soviet student to begin the process going to a U.S.

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How to Decide, Convey vs. Convince, & More

Ben's Blog

And you can run green lights and get in accidents. If you knew for a fact that they weren’t going to be able to hire a good team, you won’t invest in them. I mean, no one in San Antonio is going to know what you did in Montpelier, Vermont. You can run red lights and get through just fine. Annie: Right. Annie: Exactly.