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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

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. What does a social enterprise look like?

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Strangling Innovation: Tesla versus “Rent Seekers”

Steve Blank

Instead of offering better products or better service at lower prices, rent seekers hire lawyers and lobbyists to influence politicians and regulators to pass laws, write regulations and collect taxes that block competition. Strategies at this stage include: Hire your own lobbyists. i.e. revenue/profit sharing, two-tier hiring, etc.

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Navigating Seasonality While Keeping Cashflow Healthy

YoungUpstarts

As Kabbage customers explain, managing seasonal impact on revenue requires preparation – and if possible, alternate ways to bring money in the door. Launching new services for traditionally slow seasons. As we tell our customers, if you’re hiring us to transform your property, then you should trust us to take care of it forever.”

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Strangling Innovation: Tesla versus “Rent Seekers”

Steve Blank

Instead of offering better products or better service at lower prices, rent seekers hire lawyers and lobbyists to influence politicians and regulators to pass laws, write regulations and collect taxes that block competition. Strategies at this stage include: Hire your own lobbyists. i.e. revenue/profit sharing, two-tier hiring, etc.

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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

For instance, Columbia has launched a variety of explicitly interdisciplinary centers in recent years, including the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute , Columbia Data Science Institute ; the Brown Institute for Media Innovation ; or cross-school courses such as Columbia Business and Engineering’s Research to Revenue course.

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Why Scott Shane is Wrong (Again)

The Entrepreneurial Mind

who is an Assistant Professor, School of Management at New Jersey Institute of Technology, I found yet another kindred spirit in those who continue to be dismayed at Shane's antagonism toward small business. Shane argues that "small business also accounts for a smaller portion of technical employment than its share of overall hiring."

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Webinar Recap: 14 Tips on How to Pitch and Get Funded

Up and Running

I have some entrepreneurs who are in Gaza, who are in Cairo, who are in New Jersey, and I’m in Oregon. Now you’re going to move into your revenue model. Okay, so now your revenue model, so this is—. He had two million people visiting his site, but no revenue, but yet he sold for $40 million.