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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Photo Credit: Rob Greene. Thanks to Rob Greene, Price of Meat. #13- BMW introduced subscription fees for their cars, creating revolutionary changes in the conservative automotive community. With a new CEO in 2004, the toy company shifted gears and introduced new lines of some of the most popular LEGO sets in history.

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crowdSPRING Community Gives Back – Campus Consciousness Tour

crowdSPRING Blog

Give Back is the crowdSPRING community’s way of helping worthy non-profit and charity causes in need. Creatives in the crowdSPRING community have agreed that for these special projects, no monetary awards will be given. The Tour includes many greening elements and is run to have a minimal environmental footprint.

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Google Boulder’s Gift to NCWIT

Feld Thoughts

The head of Google Boulder (I think his official title in Googlespeak is “Engineering Site Director”) is Scott Green. While Scott and I don’t spend a lot of time together, we’ve both been part of the evolution of the Boulder startup community going back to the late 1990s.

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A Micropreneur Blueprint: How to Stay Solo, Bleed Passion, and.

Software By Rob

Background The idea for ChangeThis came from Seth Godin, and the site was built by a group of talented developers in 2004. And unlike almost every other form of media, it reaches people through community. Each month a set of manifestos are submitted, vetted by the editorial staff, then voted on by the community.

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What the musically-charged Dreamforce 2013 taught us about running a company

The Next Web

This year, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff featured current and former Top 40 performers including Huey Lewis and the News (I’m assuming “The News” was there too, but you might fact check me on that), Green Day, Blondie and many others. You’re singing along to Green Day in the rain. No doubt Vanilla Ice is on the agenda for 2014.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- To build a community. I wanted to be a part of a community of consultants that would provide me with the opportunity to build relationships with other practitioners, share lessons learned, and periodically collaborate. Photo Credit: Sheryl Green.

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7 Entrepreneurs Share How They?re Incorporating Corporate Service Responsibility (CSR) In Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

To start a CSR project, you can identify needs in your community and develop a project around that need. Because of that, our purpose – to empower people to live more beautiful lives – sits at the center of everything we do as company and compels us to keep community at our core. 2-Using an app. 6- Employee volunteering.