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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

“Our best chance to make the world better is to agree that the choice among corporate structures should be made entirely in service of social impact,” says Rich Leimsider, the Vice President of Fellowship Programs at Echoing Green, a nonprofit that invests with social entrepreneurs. with many more states pending legislation.

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Business Ethics And Social Responsibility

YoungUpstarts

Forbes notes some of the reasons why Seventh Generation, a Burlington, Vermont-based company that produces and distributes green products, was recognized as the best company for the environment. Another example of combining business ethics and social responsibility is by focusing on benefiting the environment.

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Reinventing the Office: How to Lose Fat and Increase Productivity at Work

David Teten

I’ve attached below my original, much more detailed blog post about the details of how we’ve designed our office to help people stay healthy and be as productive as possible. My colleagues at ff Venture Capital and I designed our office to make working a workout — a (partial) substitute for visiting a gym.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

We wanted to embody all those characteristics in our start-up and we symbolically keep Lemmy on our minds with the logo design and company name having a distinctive diaeresis above the second ‘o’: Motörleaf. First, I named the company Rivalee Design in honor of my grandmother. Also, my favorite aspect of interior design.

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