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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

Currently, as a profitability consultant for green and social entrepreneurship businesses, I show businesses how they can go beyond mere sustainability (keeping things the same) to regenerativity (making things better). When I was focusing more on just the green part, I used Green And Profitable. Photo Credit: Shel Horowitz.

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Presidential Innovation Fellows, round two

Startup Lessons Learned

Similarly, the government’s decision to make the Global Positioning System (GPS) freely available has fueled a vast array of private-sector innovations ranging from navigation systems to precision crop farming, creating massive public benefit and contributing significantly to economic growth. Similarly, the Green Button team at the U.S.

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Accel 2020 Euroscape: "Decacorn Unleashed"? - Apply Now!

Cracking the Code

The worst, because the global COVID-19 pandemic, on top of its impact on the health of millions of people, has created havoc in the global economy, triggering unprecedented levels of unemployment and destroying many small and large businesses. Indeed, all the traffic lights are green for the SaaS ecosystem (fingers crossed!).

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

“Rare is the business that has a formal disaster plan, let alone one that covers a global Black Swan event.” The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. That crisis saw a global spending decrease of 9%, with U.S.

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How to Make Profits Serve a Purpose With Your Startup

Up and Running

After the turn of the century, startups created fewer jobs than they did before the year 2000. Several economic factors make healthcare a likely place where your startup will see profits: The global preventive healthcare technologies and services market is expected to reach $432.4 One of these fields is green energy.

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Businesses That Are Making A Play: Ten Great Gamified Sites And Apps

YoungUpstarts

Recyclebank gives members points for engaging in “everyday green actions” such as using less water, recycling, making greener purchases, using energy more efficiently, or even walking to work instead of driving. by 2014, more than 70 percent of Global 2000 organizations will have at least one gamified application.

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How I Found a Great CTO

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Minted.com is both a global design community and stationery retailer. Independent graphic designers from all over the world submit designs to our ongoing design competitions, and Minteds community votes to tell us what to sell. ­om migrated off Drupal.

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