Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2014

“Our best chance to make the world better is to agree that the choice among corporate structures should be made entirely in service of social impact,” says Rich Leimsider, the Vice President of Fellowship Programs at Echoing Green, a nonprofit that invests with social entrepreneurs. B corp, or Benefit Corporation. What about the rest of us?

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

based companies initially funded by venture capital between 2006 and 2011, 84% now are closely held and operating independently, 11% were acquired or made initial public offerings of stock and 4% went out of business, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. Globaloney: Globalization Challenged. Rhode Island. Rhode Island.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2018

I came up with the name Excel Global Partners for my corporate consulting firm because of the vision I had for the company. Global – I wanted my company to have a global reach. Nowlin, Excel Global Partners ! #10- Our business began on the island of Block Island, Rhode Island. 17- Simple way.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 24, 2011

Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia met at the Rhode Island School of Design and became roommates in San Francisco in 2007. They were joined by a third co-founder, Nathan Blecharczyk, who brought programming expertise. And they have been ably managing the operations amidst simply explosive growth.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

Instead, the global pandemic has turned 2020 into its most harrowing year. You become a global company. One by one the markets in which you operate shut down. If you're in the travel business, a global pandemic is an existential threat. And it was amazing how global travel was halted. What if it works?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

So I was always doing linear programming and operations research stuff, and regression models and whatever to try to solve corporate strategy problems. I have similar stories about computer programming from my early days. We found each other. Eric Ries : How did you even have the idea at 18 to take that to McKinsey?

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