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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

They also note that after the 2007 recession—when things looked grim for the U.S. The organization is designed so that it can function generally as an LLC would, while legally accepting foundation grants because of the organization’s socially beneficial goals. Maryland was the first U.S. economy in general—U.S.

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6 Ways User Interface and User Experience Design Can Help Your Business

crowdSPRING Blog

In some ways, smaller companies have an unfair advantage when it comes to design because their sites and apps don’t have to be so bloated. That’s where User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI) design come into play. User Interface is closer to what we consider visual design. Rahul Varshney, Co-creator of Foster.fm

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What I Wish I’d Known Before I Started My Business

Up and Running

Kelly Costello started Puppy Cake, a business that sells “people food for dogs,” in 2007. Jonathan Passley, the owner of PDR Web Solutions, a web design and online marketing company located in Baltimore, Maryland, says he didn’t know how to save for taxes when he first started out at the age of 22.

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Lean startup tools for Rails apps

www.subelsky.com

His descriptions of lean startup techniques and philosophies have had a big influence on the way I design and build software. I'm a lighting audio and video designer. Eric asked me what specific tools Rails developers could use when building a lean startup. I'm near baltimore, and very creative as yourself.

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The Growth of the Food Truck Industrial Complex | Student Entrepreneurs In On Craze

Campus Entrepreneurship

Dave came up with his idea while a student at the University of Maryland. Its business began to shift toward the more upscale mobile food emporiums in 2007, says Arthur Djahani, general manager of Armenco Cater Truck Manufacturing Co. A few weeks back I met Dave, founder of Mike and Cookies , a start-up food truck company in Metro DC.

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Virtual worlds – then, now and next

VC Cafe

The first major economic transactions in virtual worlds started around 2007 when the City of Amsterdam inside Second Life was sold for $50,000 or when someone bought a unique elf on World of Warcraft for $9,500. Designer Sandy Liang—the downtown darling known for her “clout fleece”—held an extremely exclusive pop-up sale.

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People-First Capitalism

Reid Hoffman

And it was 2007. And I think one of the things that we’ve learned is, when I came to Silicon Valley in 2007, we were starting Airbnb in 2008, it was a marketplace. And so my basic idea is that, I think this is probably because of my background as a designer, I like to take a very systematic approach. It’s a market.