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Global Impact: Social Entrepreneurship Companies

YoungUpstarts

Blake Mycoskie visited Argentina in 2006 and saw children walking in the streets outside Buenos Aires without shoes. For every pair of shoes sold, TOMS would provide a new pair of shoes to children in Argentina and other developing countries. What is your business model? . What is the problem you’re trying to solve? .

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Four Things To Consider When Taking Your Startup Global

YoungUpstarts

If you’re wondering how to take your startup global, here’s some advice: 1. Consider your original business plan officially useless. Of course, this is not a definitive guide when it comes to taking your startup global – there’s certainly a lot more things to learn along the way and mistakes to make.

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Social Enterprises Globally

Business Plan Blog

In addition, the University of Oxford boasts that the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship is the leading global entity for the advancement of social entrepreneurship. Read more about Ashoka’s approach to supporting global social entrepreneurship here. Back in the U.S., and the U.S.

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Thoughts on Spanish Startups from La Red Innova 2011

VC Cafe

More and more incubators are popping up, students are participating in business plan competitions, and actively look to get involved with startups. Spain, Argentina and Brazil have relatively low levels of venture capital activities ( Invest in Spain confirms this). But that is now changing.

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