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Business Ethics And Social Responsibility

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For example, small businesses depend on reputation and trust among people in the community. By treating employees and customers well, businesses can gain the community’s support. Domains include environmental friendliness, community support, local products promotion, fair employee treatment and more.

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This Week in the NYC Innovation Community – January 25, 2010

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You are now free to marry the soon to be released Apple Tablet in California, New York, Arkansas, Ohio, Maine and Vermont. 8AM Regulatory Scrutiny of Social Media: The Impact on PR Communicators in 2010 and Beyond. This just in: Six states have now lifted the marriage ban. Tuesday, January 26th. RSVP: [link] Wednesday, January 27th.

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What Is a Benefit Corporation?

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Now, you can create a benefit corporation in: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington D.C., with many more states in the pending legislation phase.

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How to Start a Farm: Your Complete Guide to Success

Up and Running

The University of Vermont Extension has a whole lot more to say about hobby farming versus running a farm as a business. Farming used to be so much more about community. It is so much easier to be successful as a farmer if you have even the slightest bit of support from your community. Offer to help your neighbors.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. Firms Miss Out on Jobs Push A new federal program that lets states give companies financial incentives for hiring jobless people hasnt gained traction, illustrating the complications of government attempts to tackle unemployment.

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Fixing immigration for startups: What the US government can (and should) do right now

The Next Web

FWD.US pulled the tech community into the discussion of how broken the U.S. to receive undergraduate and graduate degrees (education that is in part supported by all Americans, even in private schools, as schools get huge tax breaks and are often funded at least in part by government grants). government plan. An election year.

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With the Federal Government Doing Nothing, Communities Step Up

VC Adventure

In it we talk about the continued failure of the federal government to help small businesses and highlight some encouraging ways that local communities have stepped into the void to help. But to be clear, those resources should have been supplemental to the support the government was providing to grassroots entrepreneurs.