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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

The Social Enterprise Alliance offers this definition: “In its early days, the social enterprise movement was identified mainly with nonprofits that used business models and earned income strategies to pursue their mission. What about the rest of us? In terms of legal structure, social enterprises have many options.

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Richie Norton on The Power of Starting Something Stupid

Life Beyond Code

I went to BYU (Brigham Young University) at Hawaii. BYU-Hawaii worked closely with me to help create the business model and put mentors in place. The rest is history as we know it. I’ve a very stupid person. I’ve started many stupid things, actually (smile)!

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

Before I started my business I went to a conference in Hawaii called Worthshop and one of the speakers was Jody Burr who talked about finding your inner CEO. Then, while still at our former firm, an email came in from a prospective client which perfectly described our new business model. 15 – Human Value of Caring.

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Founders and dysfunctional families « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

The dysfunctional family theory may explain why founders who excel in the chaotic early phases of a company throw organizational hand grenades into their own companies after they find a repeatable and scaleable business model and need to switch gears into execution. My mother was a single parent on welfare and raised 8 kids.

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Please Stop Working on Ads

Diego Basch

These investors were confident that they would find a business model (or be acquired by someone who already had one). As it turned out, the only way online businesses with millions of users and thousands of employees were able to generate enough revenue to satisfy their investors was through advertisement.

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Episode 8: Charlie’s Bcast Email, Startup Incubators, and 10 Reasons Why Startups Fail | The Bcast

Up and Running

We appreciate you writing back and letting us know what you thought of the episode, and of course for the rest of our listeners if you are interested in contacting us, you can do that by emailing bcast@bplans.com. Our business model was Pinterest. ” You’re like, “Oh” and you’re lawyers in Hawaii.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Because I have no employees, there’s a profit margin of about 70%, so it’s a really fantastic business model and gives me the freedom to travel and come back from my travel with more money than I left with. I kept the rest of the money and it became a purely passive income stream, and we kept growing that website. Yaro: It was.