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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. According to the Harvard Business Review, in most U.S.

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How to Expand Your Cannabis Business Across State Lines

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For the first time ever, you’ll order up an 1/8th of Gelato by Cookies, in Vegas, Phoenix, Denver, or even Detroit, and it’ll actually be the very same fire you fell in love with back in Cali. . The mentality of getting in and cashing out on the “green rush” is somewhat of a blinding force within the cannabis industry today.

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Out of the Crisis #7, Brian Chesky Part 1: running Airbnb in crisis mode, being multi-stakeholder, and re-founding the company

Startup Lessons Learned

A complete collapse of revenue that simultaneously affects your employees and your customers, your partners, your investors, everyone all at once and all the news is bad. At the time it was called the green movement. 500,000 to Detroit. If you're in the travel business, a global pandemic is an existential threat. So then what?

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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analyst (sit on butt and react to red light green light alerts all day). Not more folks just like them… [link] Detroit Web Design I don’t have a web company or startup per se but being in the advertising business I can say good ideas are a dime a dozen — execution is everything. Its a big burden and very stressful.

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Out of the Crisis #9, the founders of Frontline Foods on the moral imperative to support frontline workers at scale

Startup Lessons Learned

They threw a pizza party that first night, they've now raised millions of dollars and have thrown hundreds of thousands more, not just in support of frontline workers, but in support of restaurants who, as everyone knows, are struggling in these times with a dramatic decline in revenue, in customers. So Frontline Foods is a genuine win-win.