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Female Founder Interview: Latina Leader Elizabeth Colón

The Startup Magazine

But NAWBO also works tirelessly in Washington D.C. Elizabeth: Metaphrasis Language & Cultural Solutions is an award-winning interpreting and translation company located in Chicago that I founded in 2007. We like to say that we hire, fire and breathe our values. to advocate for the 11.6 Tech development? Raising capital?

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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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Going Global: How Huddle Handled The Challenge

ReadWriteStart

That advice comes from Huddle CEO Alastair Mitchell, who runs a company that went from being a British sensation to a global corporation over the past few years. When Huddle started back in 2007, CEO Alastair Mitchell tells us, it was a “bedroom startup with a team of two.” The Global Mindset. governments.

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Real Estate Developer Danny Haber Of oWOW Reinvigorates Bay Area

YoungUpstarts

Between 2007 – 2016, 1 million Californians relocated outside of the state largely for financial reasons. The housing crisis in the San Francisco Bay area is particularly severe, given the boom in Silicon Valley hires since the 2009 recession. California homeowners are selling up and moving East, to neighboring states.

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Visit to Case Foundation and Startup America

David Teten

On February 16, I visited Washington, DC, where I attended an HBS Club of DC lunch on the Case Foundation and Startup America. In 2007, launched “America’s Giving” challenge with Facebook and Parade magazine. Network for Good, Global Giving, Mission Fish (behind ebay’s GivingWorks). We wanted to direct some of that energy.

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NYC 3.0

thebarefootvc

My view is that it’s time to harness the incredible enthusiasm and talent of these individuals to drive impact, locally in NYC as well as nationally and globally. While running tech investments at the NYC Investment Fund from 2007-2010 I saw firsthand the benefits of cross industry collaboration as well as public/private partnerships.

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