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Why the Former President of Nickelodeon Joined mitú as CEO.

Both Sides of the Table

He oversaw the launch of iconic properties including Dora the Explorer, SpongeBob & Rugrats — all multi-billion-dollar global powerhouses. I’m not sure what it takes to get through to people who green light traditional media. Herb is a Puerto-Rican American media executive who was previously the President of Nickelodeon.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Photo Credit: Rob Greene. Thanks to Rob Greene, Price of Meat. #13- Thanks to Keith Terrell, Backpacks Global ! #14- Joe Coulombe had an idea after running a small chain of convenience stores in southern California. When Koum was young, his poor family emigrated to California from Ukraine. 12- Disney. 14- Polaroid.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Assessment Tool For Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

MyTab Next, Heddi Cundle from San Francisco, California, discussed MyTab , an online gift-registry of sorts to raise money for travel. Green Earth Aerogels At age 16, kids have very different career counseling needs than they do at 18 kids. I advised Anupam to come up with a 2011 strategy. He currently has a 1999 strategy.

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How Social Distancing Is Helping The Environment

YoungUpstarts

Bears in Yosemite, California and lions in Kruger, South Africa have all been roaming into the spaces usually reserved for human visitors. Global carbon emissions fell by 17% in April 2020, mainly because heavy industry limited production. In the case of COVID-19 and its impact on the environment, it might just be a green one.

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Businesswomen’s Sustainability Leadership Summit

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Last week, (seems that all of my postings start this way) I attended the Second Annual West Coast Businesswomen’s Sustainability Leadership Summit , a Women’s Network for Sustainable Future event , at IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. Many moms chimed in saying sometimes going green is the safest for kids (e.g.,

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten

“Since 2011, the Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation (BHSI) Fellowship has supported the work of 36 innovators—representing the United States as well as 18 other countries on five continents—who address pressing global issues, from healthcare delivery to college persistence and sustainable construction in developing nations. Summit Fellows.

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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

“Our best chance to make the world better is to agree that the choice among corporate structures should be made entirely in service of social impact,” says Rich Leimsider, the Vice President of Fellowship Programs at Echoing Green, a nonprofit that invests with social entrepreneurs. Maryland was the first U.S. Given that of all existing U.S.