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It's time for lean philanthropy: a case study

Startup Lessons Learned

Since then, in about 3 months, we’ve fed over 170,000 people and injected over $1mm into the local economy in San Francisco and Detroit. The model was simple: we’d build a SMS texting tool that matched the food insecure with a free meal from a partner restaurant, all covered by donor dollars.

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Did you know that board management software isn’t just for boards?

Board Effect

A quality solution like BoardEffect has been developed to be user-friendly, supporting the experience of users at all levels of technology comfort. For example, foundations, event committees, medical executive committees, quality teams, advisory boards and leadership teams, to name but a few. Identify and train group administrators.

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Why I Look for High Conviction, not Consensus, in Venture Capital Decisions

Both Sides of the Table

Often if it’s a bigger firm (say 4 partners or more) and it’s a super small investment for their fund size (let’s say $250-500k when they normally invest $5-7 million) they will just require 1 or 2 partners to decide. What happens next feels like a black box to outsiders. ” Some firms are collegiate.

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6 Tips for Coming Up With Your Million-Dollar Business Idea

Up and Running

With my third business, I didn’t even try to be original—I purchased a custom framing franchise and piggybacked to success on someone else’s name. Along the way, the group brought on another classmate, Joe Miller, to handle the technology end. What I’m saying is, I’m wholly unqualified to offer startup advice. Rob’s advice.

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How VCs, Accelerators, and Coworking Spaces Put Communities in Buildings vs. Buildings in Communities

This is going to be BIG.

In fact, it is "well-known internationally as the original home of New York's technology community.". Names like Sun and Cornell (ironically, given the new tech campus) were brought in to try and tech-ify NYC's downtown area. Companies can't find the partners and employees they need. It says so right on their website.

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How to Start a Bed and Breakfast

Up and Running

As the name would suggest, the nightly fee includes a hearty, home-cooked meal the next morning. There may have been a time when opening a B&B in the greater Detroit area may have been successful; however, given the economic hardships that area has been facing in the last 10-15 years, it hardly seems like a solid business venture now.

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. We asked entrepreneurs and business owners how they came up with their business name. #1- 1- Suggestive and evocative name.

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