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[INTERVIEW] David Mimran, Director Of The Mimran Group

YoungUpstarts

For the most part, African farmers currently import fertilizer at great cost, putting them at a competitive disadvantage to farmers in Latin America and Asia. MNR aims to close Africa’s fertilizer deficit and empower the continent’s farmers to expand production into the 80% of arable land not currently under cultivation there.

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America’s Farmstand, The Online Farmer’s Market

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That’s where America’s Farmstand comes in. “I was raised in the country and had the pleasure of jogging past and interacting with farmstands every morning growing up,” explains Todd Greenfield, founder and president of Stonington, Connecticut-based America’s Farmstand.

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Sustainable Design Can Help Your Small Business and Improve the Environment

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In response to this global trend, businesses are adopting environmentally-friendly strategies when they design products, product packaging, and when marketing their business. It conserves resources and minimizes physical and visual pollution throughout the lifecycle of the product. Make your product packaging eco-friendly.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

18:21) Carl on optimism and what he did as head of stores at Home Depot post-Katrina to take care of customers and employees, including selling products out of the back of a truck via an IOU system. And then I did a brief stint at AutoNation, America's largest automotive retailer in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. All our cleaning products.

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Good to Great to Excellent: A Roadmap

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Thumbtack - Americas marketplace for local services. By Jason Calacanis Ive spent the past two decades building products. Thats how I approached life, and I made a bunch of products I felt were great. Now it turns out starting companies and making good or great products is not so hard -- making them excellent is.

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The Well Workforce: Healthy Equals Wealthy And Wise

YoungUpstarts

Not only will a mentally healthy workforce directly translate to direct benefits for the American worker, it will bolster businesses’ bottom lines by greatly reducing lost productivity, absenteeism, and worker’s compensation and disability claims. It is well known that the costs of mental illness in the U.S. are enormous.

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How to Expand Your Cannabis Business Across State Lines

Up and Running

The market is expanding so quickly that if you’re unable to get your products in shelves across multiple markets, you’re falling behind. Companies like Acreage, Cookies, Harvest, and CannaCraft are paving the way here. You can potentially double your market cap with each additional state you get your brands efficiently into. .