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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 17: Tiffani Bell and Clay Hebert

Steve Blank

You must also understand the value the product provides customers (along with the rest of your business model.). Joining me in the Stanford University studio were: Tiffani Bell , co-founder of the Detroit Water Project. For example, in Detroit and Baltimore you can lose your kids over not having water in your house.

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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

The Social Enterprise Alliance offers this definition: “In its early days, the social enterprise movement was identified mainly with nonprofits that used business models and earned income strategies to pursue their mission. As the world becomes ever more interconnected, do businesses have a responsibility to do good?

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Mercenaries, Missionaries, and Crusaders

View from Seed

At some level nearly all tech entrepreneurs are evangelizing something… a new technology, a new business model, a new brand. Remember that other car entrepreneur , the one who boldly championed safer and more innovative car designs, who took on the stodgy Detroit automakers, who also got tripped up with the SEC?

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

After several rejections, a friend told me that you could actually just start a blog. So, I opened up Frugal Confessions in 2009, and built a business from there. I did more research and then started making blogs with creative ideas to change family court and help parents. Thanks to Amanda L. 11- Make a bigger impact.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

This is the first post in what’s going to be a series of blogs on how to go from nothing – no connections, no team, no money and no knowledge of how the startup industry really works – to operating a growing business. I mentioned to Mike that I was going to kick this series off over on the Meebo Blog , but he suggested I start it here.