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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Assessment Tool For Entrepreneurs

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Green Earth Aerogels At age 16, kids have very different career counseling needs than they do at 18 kids. Last up, Fortunato Cardenas from Barcelona, Spain, presented Green Earth Aerogels , a nano-materials company in Barcelona, Spain focused on developing insulation gels from rice. partners to help bring his product to market.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Niche Marketplace Businesses Can Be Interesting

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Marketing Green Products and Services to Indian Consumers. Then Tarini Kinkar discussed a media concept for marketing green products and services to Indian consumers. One of my key concerns is that the level of awareness about green and environmentally conscious issues is very, very low in India.

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What is a Social Enterprise?

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“Our best chance to make the world better is to agree that the choice among corporate structures should be made entirely in service of social impact,” says Rich Leimsider, the Vice President of Fellowship Programs at Echoing Green, a nonprofit that invests with social entrepreneurs. Maryland was the first U.S. What about the rest of us?

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How to Be an Entrepreneur in 2024: 15 Tactics Revealed

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Paul is also a senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the MIT Sloan School of Management and the co-founder of Oceanworks. You see the green stripe going in the distance, and that's because these tactics always carry on for you. This is John Jantsh. My guest today is Paul Cheek.

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Seed and Later Investments for Startups are Booming

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Massachusetts is a distant #3 but in terms of the rate of follow-on financing, Massachusetts has the highest rate. Green Tech is still in a slump, with renewables leading the way. California and NY dominate for number of seed deals. California is the clear #1 for seed investment activity followed by strong #2 New York.

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Year-End VC Report Shows Strength of Internet & Early Stage Investment

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New York Takes the #2 Spot For Tech VC from Massachusetts. Massachusetts, 207. billion for Massachusetts. Sure, this isn't a rousting of Massachusetts by New York. Investment in green tech and clean tech declined. The report identifies a number of trends in both industries and regions. billion versus the $1.21

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Why Technology is Driving More Urban Renewal

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Many “tech companies” now have green screens. In Massachusetts companies (and VCs) have migrated from out by Waltham to Back Bay (Boston) or Cambridge. I see it first hand in Los Angeles where given the growth of YouTube networks the worlds of art & technology are colliding. And make-up artists. And sound engineers.