article thumbnail

30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

In 2007, I left my career to become a stay-at-home mom. I monetize my content with Google Adsense and the Grammarly affiliate program. The Grammarly affiliate program pays.20 After spending almost a decade in Africa, I realized that most of the charities and nonprofits weren’t making as big of a difference as they claimed.

article thumbnail

Impact Investing: a time for problems to become opportunities

VC Cafe

The term “impact investment” was coined in 2007 — an approach that deliberately builds intangible assets alongside tangible, financial ones. 8200 Impact, an Israeli accelerator for Impact startups affiliated with the 8200 IDF Unit.

article thumbnail

32 Business and Life Lessons: What I Learned Running Companies on 4 Different Continents

ConversionXL

I wrote down things like “I want to be able to go volunteer in Africa for 6 months when I want to. I also couldn’t be just a volunteer for non-profits as you gotta live and flying to Africa is not that cheap + would have to worry about financial security. This was in 2007. What do I really want from life?

Panama 124