Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2014

“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. B corp, or Benefit Corporation. What about the rest of us?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2012

Principal Investigator: Walter Besio University of Rhode Island. SwiftVax – A Green Manufacturing Platform for Faster, Cheaper, and Scalable Vaccine Manufacturing. TexCone – Laser-Generated Surface Textures for Anti-Icing and Sun-Light-Trapping Applications. Principal Investigator: Mool Gupta University of Virginia.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2014

Now, you can create a benefit corporation in: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington D.C., with many more states in the pending legislation phase.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

When I was at RISD, I went to Rhode Island School of Design, there was this idea that was emerging called The Green Movement, the sustainability movement. But Joe and me were designers from Rhode Island School of Design. I think I’ll give the headline, I’ll go into it. One is a computer scientist from Harvard.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

When I was at RISD, I went to Rhode Island School of Design, there was this idea that was emerging called The Green Movement, the sustainability movement. But Joe and me were designers from Rhode Island School of Design. I think I’ll give the headline, I’ll go into it. One is a computer scientist from Harvard.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

I went to Rhode Island School of Design. At the time it was called the green movement. Let me just tell you a little bit of a background. I'm perhaps an oddity of Silicon Valley because I'm not an engineer by training. I'm not a business person. I didn't go to business school. I'm a designer. Eric Ries : Shout out to RISD.

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