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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

The popular ice cream brand Ben & Jerry’s is a certified B corporation—a type of social enterprise. A social enterprise is defined by its mission, specifically that it makes a positive contribution to a social cause. Because of this, the structure of a social enterprise can vary.

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Social Enterprise: Choice of Legal Entity

Business Plan Blog

As of yet, a social enterprise is not its own legal structure, and a social enterprise company must consider its legal structure options and select the one most congruent with the company’s plan. The California Corporations Code sections that sets forth the requirements for this entity are available here.

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What Recent Data Breaches Signal to Nonprofit Organizations

Board Effect

Hackers strike once again, this time causing a data breach at a prominent New York nonprofit social services agency. They remain concerned about the leakage of accounts that contained names, addresses, Social Security numbers, financial information, medical data, health insurance information, and other government identification.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Other VCs use Contently * or Social Native * to create relevant content. We’re using … TinyLetter for our “Content Newsletter” … and Buffer to schedule social media posts. I use Hootsuite to coordinate my social media activity, which consists of Teten.com, PEVCTech.com , Linkedin , AngelList , and (passively) Twitter and Facebook.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

Currently, as a profitability consultant for green and social entrepreneurship businesses, I show businesses how they can go beyond mere sustainability (keeping things the same) to regenerativity (making things better). After having this internal conversation, It Works seemed like the only choice for a name. Photo Credit: Paul Koger.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. And if you’re doing Windows Mobile 7 apps (which the stats suggest you aren’t), it’s your only choice. And at the time,NET was the best choice for those problems.

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Sagefrog Marketing Group, LLC was founded in 2002 as a two-person enterprise through the merger of two existing entities. Plus, all the social media profiles were available. Then, we used that brand manifesto to guide our choice of company name. Photo Credit: Mark Schmukler. How cool is that? It was meant to be!

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