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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. In terms of legal structure, social enterprises have many options. Maryland was the first U.S.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Conceived in my Princeton dorm room, TerraCycle’s original business model of worm poop fertilizer was like a lightbulb going on in my head: we could take the school’s food waste, feed it to worms, get beautiful worm poop, and sell it. Thanks to Reginald Swift, Rubix LS ! #9- 9- People, Planet, and Profit. Photo Credit: Tom Szaky.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Because I have no employees, there’s a profit margin of about 70%, so it’s a really fantastic business model and gives me the freedom to travel and come back from my travel with more money than I left with. Last tax year it was a quarter million dollars, and this tax year I just passed half a million dollars. I own my own house.

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14 Entrepreneurs Describe The BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals) For Their Business?

Hearpreneur

Thanks to Brad Leahy, Green ! #7- We have a unique business model that allows us to be the most competitive lender in the space, by either working with lending partners or originating the loans ourselves. 9- Be the #1 Small Giant in Hawaii. You see like Silicon Valley, Hawaii is becoming its own startup paradise.