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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

Nonprofits are certainly social enterprises, but many for-profit companies fall into this category by making the conscious decision to have their focus be an altruistic cause, rather than the maximization of profits. Mission is primary and fundamental; organizational form is a strategic question of what will best advance the social mission.”.

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Smart Bear Live 5: Dan from SyncBloc.com with Mark Suster

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Transcript Automated transcription services provided by: Dan Bowen: My name is Dan Bowen, and I’m up in the wine country in Healdsburg, California north of San Francisco, and the company name is SyncBloc, S-Y-N-C-B-L-O-C. or an MSN or an AOL in terms of portal distribution. Jason: SyncBloc. Well I know what Sync is, but Bloc.

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Startups: It’s not Thelma & Louise

Austin Startup

With the help of advisors Ada Ryland and Wayne Lopez, we set up data-driven operation to get clarity on what and why we measured?—?and By the by, women donors, I recommend diversifying some of your capital distributions to reap that ROI to keep doing good… (+ this is a whole ‘nother blog post…) Undeterred. people were coming back (!)

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Business Strategy Plan: How to Tilt the Game in Your Favor

Growthink Blog

The entrepreneurs and companies that will prosper and outpace their competitors during the next two decades will be those that outthink their competitors strategically, not outmuscle them operationally. As an example, I pretty much love all the beers created by Lagunitas Brewing Company in Petaluma, California. Click here to find out.

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

An era defined and dominated by the few who could afford the factories, the media and the distribution systems. Especially when the brand normally operate in an invisible category like washing powder. They are now reclaiming their cities and circumventing the planning doctrine. The top down era of one size fits all.

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Do It Right The First Time, Part II: Visit the Doctor or House Call?

Gust

Form a legal entity to operate the business (we’ll use a Delaware corporation as an example for Newco). The next category is more promising for those who aspire to the corporate legal equivalent of the Homebrew Computer Club : Common Operating Documents. Strategic partnership or distribution agreements.

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Durant Versus Sloan – Part 1

Steve Blank

When Sloan became president of GM in 1923 he put in place planning and strategy, measurements, and most importantly, the principles of decentralization.” Sloan transferred responsibility down from corporate into each of the operating divisions (Chevrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick and Cadillac).