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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

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“Staple green cards to the diplomas of foreign students who graduate from any U.S. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. So I asked our COO, Stuart Lander (a Brit) to set up operations for us. Crazy, huh?

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What is a Social Enterprise?

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“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. with many more states pending legislation.

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What Is a Benefit Corporation?

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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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11 Brilliant Businesswomen Who Were Way Ahead Of Their Time

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It would soon become one of the biggest cash crops in the province of South Carolina, second only to rice. 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. Hetty Green.