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Microsoft’s Bing Fund will give online startups cash, advice, and discounts

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VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. The Bing Fund, Microsoft’s newest incubator, to be headed by VoodooPC founder Rahul Sood. ” “I think the number one reason I love Microsoft is we have a living founder and chairman who’s dedicated his life to making the world better,” Sood said.

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What is a Social Enterprise?

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An excellent example of a social enterprise is The Empowerment Plan —an organization that hires people currently living in homeless shelters to create a combination winter coat, sleeping bag, and over-the-shoulder bag, which is then distributed to the homeless of Detroit free of charge. According to the Harvard Business Review, in most U.S.

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Out of the Crisis #9, the founders of Frontline Foods on the moral imperative to support frontline workers at scale

Startup Lessons Learned

The founders of Frontline Foods are three of these people. When is our society going to start treating nurses with the respect they're due? You can't go to Spirit Rock or Green College. Sydney Gressel : I've got to say, I've been like, "Oh, so this is how the tech world is, huh, guys?" I am Eric Ries.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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Out of the Crisis #7, Brian Chesky Part 1: running Airbnb in crisis mode, being multi-stakeholder, and re-founding the company

Startup Lessons Learned

I've known Brian Chesky, Co-Founder, CEO and Head of Community at Airbnb for a long time. I think every founder, every CEO, every leader, could learn something, could take heart from Brian's example and I hope they will. Brian Chesky : I am Brian Chesky, co-founder, CEO, and head of community at Airbnb. I hope you will.