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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Niche Marketplace Businesses Can Be Interesting

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Marketing Green Products and Services to Indian Consumers. Then Tarini Kinkar discussed a media concept for marketing green products and services to Indian consumers. One of my key concerns is that the level of awareness about green and environmentally conscious issues is very, very low in India.

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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

“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. Maryland was the first U.S. What about the rest of us?

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: athenahealth

Seeing Both Sides

There are many companies that are competing to be the “operating system” for small businesses. One company in Watertown, Massachusetts has been executing on this vision for over a decade with a winning approach for one vertical slice of the small business market: physicians.

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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.

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How to Be an Entrepreneur in 2024: 15 Tactics Revealed

Duct Tape Marketing

Paul is also a senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the MIT Sloan School of Management and the co-founder of Oceanworks. We look at it at MIT as an order of operations, not of parentheses and then exponents, et cetera. (13:10): This is John Jantsh. My guest today is Paul Cheek.

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11 Brilliant Businesswomen Who Were Way Ahead Of Their Time

YoungUpstarts

Goddard, ever the savvy businesswoman, would later become the first female postmaster and would continue to operate the bookshop (a spin-off of her printing business) until her death at the age of 78. During 1810 alone, the new method brought in more than $500,000 in sales in Massachusetts, or the equivalent of $4.7 Hetty Green.

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Venture Capital is Back But Moving Up-Stage

Startup Professionals Musings

Massachusetts and NY states also have high numbers. Green investments jumped 55% and 134% on a deals and dollars basis, respectively, vs. You have probably heard me say this too many times, but investors look harder at the people than they do the idea (bet on the jockey rather than the horse). Timing is critical.