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Your Company Can Either Lead Sustainability Efforts Or Get Out Of The Way

YoungUpstarts

When Netflix began streaming media directly to customers in 2007, it changed the face of home entertainment. The pursuit of sustainable business practices makes sense because consumers ask for them and are more willing to do business with green companies. by Dan Lauer , founding executive director of UMSL Accelerate.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

“Staple green cards to the diplomas of foreign students who graduate from any U.S. TWTFelipe and everybody like him who want to start high-tech, green tech or other scientific companies in the US should be encouraged to do so. In 2007 Salesforce.com wanted to buy Koral. university in math or science&# (Thomas Friedman).

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

Jocz , you may need to change how you segment your audience: Marketers typically segment according to demographics (“over 40,” say, or “new parent” or “middle income”) or lifestyle (“traditionalist” or “going green”). Hyundai’s Assurance program, which debuted during the 2007–08 financial crisis, is a great example.

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Innovation and Geography

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? that talked about a recent NY Times article When It Comes to Innovation, Geography Is Destiny.

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The Past, Present and Future of Gender Lens Investing

Austin Startup

Gender lens investing is part of the broader genre of “impact investing,” a term coined by the Rockefeller Foundation in 2007 that put a name to investments made with the intention of generating both financial return and social and/or environmental impact.

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15 Things to Blog About

Up and Running

(Note from Tim: I post here every Wednesday and I’ve posted more than a thousand posts since I started this blog on Entrepreneur.com in 2007. Take for example Pat Flynn, used his Green Exam Academy blog to post all his notes while preparing for the LEED exam. This is still a valuable tool today.

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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. According to the Harvard Business Review, in most U.S. states for-profit companies can accept donations and nonprofit companies earn revenue, which dispels the myths that a nonprofit can’t make money, or a for-profit venture would miss out on donations.