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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

“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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From The Flea Market To The Stock Market

YoungUpstarts

My entrepreneurial ways can be traced to when I was 17 and decided to go into business with a friend, operating a table at a flea market. But when my friend dropped out of our partnership, I didn’t need to look far to find a new partner. Green says that it’s important not to devalue simple jobs because no experience is bad experience.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

One was the realization of what I was really good at doing – helping organizations with starting and/or fixing their sales operation. That's one of my motivations in pursuing my family real estate business in New Jersey. Photo Credit: Jason Cutter. I started my business for two reasons.

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What Is a Benefit Corporation?

Up and Running

It’s a fairly new structure, with the first one of its kind coming into existence in 2010, but since then it has rapidly taken off. For many considering or currently operating benefit corporations, this is what it’s all about. Culture Law and Taxes Managing a Business News Operations Strategy b corp benefit corporation'

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How to Start a Movement

Ben's Blog

A few months ago, my friend Joe Green sent me a video titled, “ The Internet is My Religion ”: In it, Jim Gilliam gives us a short tour of his life’s story. After recovering from the operation, Jim had a defining revelation. Alex is now the youngest mayor in the history of New Jersey. Heavy D, We Got Our Own Thang.

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Out of the Crisis #16: Robert Schooley on why we weren't prepared, long-term thinking, and how to make decisions for the greater good.

Startup Lessons Learned

We have a large number of American citizens, American green card holders who have gotten sick in Mexico and are coming back to the US for care. The overall number of new cases in the US had been decreasing. And so that three component activity is how we're modeling how we want to operate the campus in the fall.