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7 Advantages For Being A Socially Responsible Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

In the short run, there are real costs associated with the “triple bottom line” of maximizing profit, people (social), and planet (environment). But very quickly, it is becoming obvious to startups that the value and satisfaction exceeds the costs. We all know the cost of retaining customers is far less than the cost of new customers.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

Mr. Lindzon has more than 20 years experience in the financial community acting in both an entrepreneurial and investing capacity. Ahlberg founded Spotfire (acquired by Tibco) based on his research on information visualization at the University of Maryland under the guidance of Ben Shneiderman. Tuesday, Jan 17th, 2012.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Our goals are to increase quality, by offering patients the best providers across the country, to increase access, by removing transportation barriers and connecting patients with these providers anywhere, and to lower costs, by eliminating the reliance on traditional healthcare infrastructure. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community.

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7 Benefits For Startups Joining The B-Corp Movement

Startup Professionals Musings

In the short run, there are real costs associated with the “triple bottom line” of maximizing profit, people (social), and planet (environment). But very quickly, it is becoming obvious to startups that the value and satisfaction exceeds the costs. We all know the cost of retaining customers is far less than the cost of new customers.

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Rebuild Lives: Remote Work for Social Good

Transformify

It is access to an untapped talent pool, a way to optimize costs, engage with social initiatives and do good to the society at large. It is good for both the company and the local community that is instantly boosted by the increased purchasing power of the residents. How to choose between Maryland, Ohio and North Carolina?

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The Democratization of Innovation | Yes That is What is Occurring

Campus Entrepreneurship

Participants included, Mark Walsh CEO of Genius Rocket, Mike Lincoln of Cooley LP, Ashish Jaiman of Microsoft, and Edmund Pendleton from MTECH at the University of Maryland. Successful businesses gain support from a larger community, particularly when chemistry and complementary business philosophies come into play.

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

In the time since our conversation, data and science have shown again and again that wearing masks is an incredibly effective, low-cost and simple way to prevent viral spread. Before that I was an equal partner in Kaggle, which is a popular data science competition community. We should all wear them in public." I've discovered this.