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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. Here in the U.S.

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How to Start a Bed and Breakfast

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A successful bed and breakfast owner will need to know how to plan for cash flow, hire and manage staff, strategize to maintain maximum occupancy rates, and negotiate with contractors and suppliers, to name but a few of the business-related tasks that will be required. How to Do Your Own PR If You Can’t Afford to Hire an Agency.

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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

Eric Ries : You're not like a lot of other tech folks. And these are people that we spent so much time to hire. We went through hundreds of thousands of resumes to hire those 1,900 people and we do so much to bring them in and to have to say goodbye to them, I'd say that was the hardest part. 37:30) Compassion in layoffs. (39:37)

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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

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. New York, of course, being one of the epicenters for the pandemic in our country, but other cities being hit very hard, New Orleans and Detroit, and what's happening in Mississippi right now.