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The Story Of A Young Entrepreneur Building A Better World With A Nonprofit

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Camden is the Founder and CEO of the Nonprofit Organization Beyond the Crisis Beyond the Crisis, the food-distribution charity, which has distributed over 100,000 dollars of food items to housing communities and homeless shelters across Massachusetts. This is John Jan, and my guest today is Camden Francis.

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What is a Social Enterprise?

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An excellent example of a social enterprise is The Empowerment Plan —an organization that hires people currently living in homeless shelters to create a combination winter coat, sleeping bag, and over-the-shoulder bag, which is then distributed to the homeless of Detroit free of charge. that social enterprises can take.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight on Latin and Central America

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Consumers can take turns in placing the order, and Marcial would need to provide the infrastructure to manage the flow of funds, as well as the distribution of merchandise locally. A well designed trust system with reviews and ratings and dispute settlement would be necessary to prevent fraud, the way other exchanges like eBay do.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Dedicated To Steve Jobs, Reinforcing Mission To Restructure Capitalism

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Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. a distributed, democratic model of capitalism. on a global scale. What makes 1M/1M unique?

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets

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Chak has been able to get a couple of distributors in Singapore to buy his greeting cards designed by a community of artists, but is struggling to find a steady, repeatable model. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year.

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On Supercities, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality in a Post-COVID World

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As companies and cities wrestle with the future of work, future of cities, and future of tech made possible in a post-COVID future, the question is whether it also impacts — and presents an opportunity to address — one of the greatest problems of our time: the unequal distribution of economic opportunity across the United States.