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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

InStove contributes both the technology for efficient stoves, and the means to create sustainable jobs. Here in the U.S. it is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit, but because of its dedication to sustainability, it is now working with local communities to form separate stove manufacturing factories in their countries. Maryland was the first U.S.

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Small Business Owners’ Attitudes Change Mid 2015

YoungUpstarts

The survey also found that 20% want to purchase capital equipment and/or technology, 15% want to increase their inventory, and 9% want to increase their marketing efforts in the second half of 2015. She is a graduate of Louisiana State University and has more than 12 years of professional experience in the equipment financing industry.

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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

We have three universities in the top 100 of the Shanghai ranking for engineering and technology. Mr. Willink would later bank roll the Louisiana Purchase - in someway a ‘super angel’ of the 18th century. Let’s try to reach Oranje-worthy status in technology entrepreneurship. It was the first foreign loan in US history.

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Navigating the volunteer board member lifecycle for effective collaboration

Board Effect

At the Louisiana Restaurant Association , leaders also sought new strategies and tools to manage access to documents and data as board members ended their terms or resigned. Time and resource constraints Nonprofits need proven solutions to their needs, as most don’t have spare time and budget to experiment with untested technology.

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22 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2020

Hearpreneur

Thanks to Steve Keighery, Home Buyer Louisiana ! #3- We managed to launch our WhitePaper, which was a research paper on blockchain technology we spent two years working on. 18- Turned to our technology already implemented to onboard new clients. 3- Pivoting. Photo Credit: Taylor Drake. 15- WhitePaper launch.

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

online.wsj.com

An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. Whats on your technology toolbelt? more in Small Business. Find New $LINKTEXTFIND$ » smaller. link] [link] --> By DEBORAH GAGE. It looks so easy from the outside. California. Connecticut. District of Columbia. Massachusetts.

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IBM: Where Corporate Responsibility is Not a Trend, but a Lifestyle

Austin Startup

If there’s a new technology out there, we are presenting, demonstrating, and exhibiting it to Hispanic and other girls of color in our clubs, camps, workshops, and conferences. This year, Latinitas turns 15 years old; we have reached our “quinceanera” — we are a teenager, burgeoning on adulthood.

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