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7 Advantages For Being A Socially Responsible Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

A few examples of well-known benefit corporations in the USA include Kickstarter, Etsy in New York, Patagonia in California, and Seventh Generation in Vermont. More and more, the goodwill of the relevant customer community, in large measure, contributes to the success of any product and any company.

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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

it is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit, but because of its dedication to sustainability, it is now working with local communities to form separate stove manufacturing factories in their countries. Here in the U.S. InStove contributes both the technology for efficient stoves, and the means to create sustainable jobs. B corp, or Benefit Corporation.

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7 Ways it Pays to Build a Socially Conscious Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

To legally facilitate startups who want to give top priority to socially conscious solutions, eleven states, including New York and California, have passed legislation allowing incorporation as a Benefit Corporation (B-Corp). For some business opportunities, like Facebook and Twitter, the community is the value.

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7 Benefits For Startups Joining The B-Corp Movement

Startup Professionals Musings

Last year, Etsy in New York announced that it had joined the ranks of the now more than 865 companies nationwide as a Certified B Corporation, keeping good company with Patagonia in California and Seventh Generation in Vermont. For some business opportunities, like Facebook and Twitter, the community is the value.

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Welcome To The Fall Semester

Feld Thoughts

We often find ourselves in New York around Amy’s birthday and in some exotic warm beach place (like Mexico) on mine. My fourth book, Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City comes out at the end of the month. George), Vermont (Burlington), and Michigan (Detroit) in October.

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This Week in the NYC Innovation Community – January 25, 2010

This is going to be BIG.

You are now free to marry the soon to be released Apple Tablet in California, New York, Arkansas, Ohio, Maine and Vermont. 10AM through the weekend Crisis Camp Haiti NYC-New York technologists helping the Haiti relief effort. To get this list in your inbox each Monday morning, sign up here. RSVP: [link].

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What Is a Benefit Corporation?

Up and Running

Now, you can create a benefit corporation in: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington D.C., with many more states in the pending legislation phase.