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What is a Social Enterprise?

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An excellent example of a social enterprise is The Empowerment Plan —an organization that hires people currently living in homeless shelters to create a combination winter coat, sleeping bag, and over-the-shoulder bag, which is then distributed to the homeless of Detroit free of charge. state to adopt this structure in 2010.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Dedicated To Steve Jobs, Reinforcing Mission To Restructure Capitalism

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From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. a distributed, democratic model of capitalism. As an entrepreneur CEO, she ran three companies: DAIS, Intarka, and Uuma. What makes 1M/1M unique?

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

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To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010.

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The Playbook for Scale Up Nation

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According to Izhar Shay, a general partner at Canaan Partners, “The investment community has matured to recognize they need to plan for scale. headquarters, in Massachusetts, to immerse the team in the American market. “At From 1995–2010, the Israeli startup ecosystem was not focused on creating big companies.

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Returns for brand-name VC funds

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The information is based on part of a confidential year-end 2011 investment report distributed to investors in a fund-of-funds that made commitments between 1999 and 2001. The percentage is the 12/31/11 portfolio value (including cumulative distributions) divided by the called capital. Accel Partners VII (1999): 89% (74%).

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

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Our community colleges are excellent as well, including the Alamo Colleges, Austin Community College, the Dallas College and the Lone Star Community College. Edward’s University, Texas State University, Texas Tech University, Trinity University, The University of Houston System, and The University of North Texas System.

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Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets

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Chak has been able to get a couple of distributors in Singapore to buy his greeting cards designed by a community of artists, but is struggling to find a steady, repeatable model. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year.