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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. Currently this structure is available in Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington D.C.,

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ConnectYard Integrates Social Media Into School Communications

YoungUpstarts

Founded in 2007, Wayne, New Jersey-based ConnectYard provides a platform for educational institutions that integrates their learning management systems with the social media tools students use to connect students and instructors for a more web-based community, and provide a better learning experience at the same time.

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Insuring The Success Of Your Small Business

YoungUpstarts

Disability Insurance – This type of insurance is mandatory only in the following states: California, Hawaii, New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico and Rhode Island. In April 2007, the Northwest was deluged with floods caused by over 8” of rainfall. You will need home-based business insurance.

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Publicity Stunts: When Good Ideas Go Bad

crowdSPRING Blog

In 2007 Todd Davis, CEO of the identity theft protection company LifeLock, decided to pursue a great new marketing effort. William Crush was fired, the town was torn down after the day of the crash and the railroad gave the victims free passes! Of course the passes were only good for use on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas.

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Building The Machine Podcast Episode 5: Dan Kimerling Deciens Capital

Eric Friedman

In 2007, he was named the Anne Armstrong Leadership Fellow, a position given annually to the most promising young foreign policy professional. Eric, as you know, I grew up in suburban New Jersey and in suburban New Jersey, we ate a lot of Benihana growing up and I love the Americanized version of this deeply traditional Japanese meal.

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Where are the Deals? How VCs Identify the Next Generation of Startups

David Teten

The funds with sophisticated non-venture center outbound origination programs were almost all able to raise funds equal or larger than their preceding fund in the economically challenging period 2007-2010. While certainly active in our home region of New York and New Jersey, we do invest without regard to geography.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – May 2012 Edition

VC Cafe

Global provider of business collaboration and communications solutions Avaya, based in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, recently announced its purchase of RADVISION for $230m. Avaya, EMC and VMWare are following the footsteps of Facebook, eBay, Cisco and HP with Israeli acquisitions that become R&D centers. AVAYA ACQUIRES RADVISION.