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30 Entrepreneurs Explain How They are Incorporating Social Entrepreneurship in Their Business

Hearpreneur

We are beginning to focus on and create initiatives toward being more green. 2- Recruiting the unemployed from Africa. We adopt this strategy for our initial tier of services because we don't want great ideas and products to go unnoticed simply because of a low budget. 10- Contributing as a global citizen.

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How Social Distancing Is Helping The Environment

YoungUpstarts

There are three main contributors to carbon emissions : aviation, car travel, and animal products. Bears in Yosemite, California and lions in Kruger, South Africa have all been roaming into the spaces usually reserved for human visitors. In the case of COVID-19 and its impact on the environment, it might just be a green one.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

After former CEO Steve Jobs departed the business in 1985, Apple entered a ten-year downward spiral as competitors' lower-priced products notably Microsoft Windows, dominated the personal computer market. Photo Credit: Rob Greene. Thanks to Rob Greene, Price of Meat. #13- Thanks to Keith Terrell, Backpacks Global ! #14-

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Resources for Global Entrepreneurs

Up and Running

On Bplans, we often share information about United States’ specific resources, like SBDCs (small business development centers), but those resources probably aren’t as helpful to global entrepreneurs. Is the purpose of the article to deliver unbiased information or to sell you a product or convince you of something? South Africa.

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Entrepreneurship in the Fast Lane

Growthink Blog

Pursue Global Markets 2. Pursue Global Markets. If you don’t have a business that can scale globally, then either don’t bother or just content yourself with staying small. In that same time frame, United States IPO volume declined 75% in real terms and now accounts for less than 11% of the global total. In the U.S.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. As of year-end, Foursquare had over 15 million users, with an exponential growth rate globally.

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Manjit Singh Sahota on Energy Tech Innovation in Oil and Gas Exploration

The Startup Magazine

Various countries are interested in drilling in the Arctic, offshore in the Gulf of Mexico and in other productive areas, and in new areas that have not yet been explored. One area experiencing significant growth in the number of operating oil wells is in Africa, whose oil wells are projected to increase by up to 9 percent over the next year.