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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. B corp, or Benefit Corporation. Bcorporation.net.

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

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To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Rhode Island. Rhode Island. Semiconductors. Telecommunications.

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

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I chair a medical data research lab called WAMRI, and probably best known as the co-founder of fast.ai, although increasingly finding myself known, surprisingly enough to me, as the co-founder of this thing called #Masks4All. Jeremy Howard : I'm Jeremy Howard, a research scientist at the University of San Francisco. Good Lord, no.

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PaidContent.org Founder Launches Travel Media and Data Company. Operations. Distribution. Rhode Island. Rhode Island. MOST READ on FOLIO: F+W Acquires Aspire Media. Merging Brands with Technology. Defining Mobile Opportunities and Strategies. Reports: Major Layoffs at Spin. FOLIO: Alert News Updates.