Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
A few examples of well-known benefit corporations in the USA include Kickstarter, Etsy in New York, Patagonia in California, and Seventh Generation in Vermont. Of course, investors still require a profitable business model, and the potential for high returns. Startups can use social responsibility as a competitive advantage.
Up and Running
AUGUST 6, 2014
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. B corp, or Benefit Corporation.
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Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 5, 2013
Last year, Etsy in New York announced that it had joined the ranks of the now more than 865 companies nationwide as a Certified B Corporation, keeping good company with Patagonia in California and Seventh Generation in Vermont. Of course, investors still require a profitable business model, and the potential for high returns.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 24, 2012
Earlier this year, Etsy in New York announced that it had joined the ranks of the now more than 500 companies nationwide as a Certified B Corporation, keeping good company with Patagonia in California and Seventh Generation in Vermont. Of course, investors still require a profitable business model, and the potential for high returns.
ReadWriteStart
APRIL 10, 2013
After graduating college at the tender age of 20, I moved to Vermont, bursting with a plan to write a novel. The gravity that comes with running a business can overwhelm our ability to look at something as a blank slate on which we impose our imagination. .” – Jack Kerouac, On The Road. It was my first unsuccessful venture.
Campus Entrepreneurship
JUNE 19, 2012
”A lot of us are silly optimistic, sometimes,” says Amanda Frattarola, 22, who graduated from the University of Vermont in 2011 and found a job as a health and wellness coordinator in Arlington, Texas. Beneath this cascade of sobering statistics, a new pragmatism might be forming.”A Her job search lasted eight months.
View from Seed
FEBRUARY 27, 2019
Talk me through the inception of Janji and the basis for your business model. We’re also doing trips to Bolivia, Cambodia and we’re even going to do one in Vermont, which I know seems to be a little out there. This interview has been edited for length and clarity*.
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