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14 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Are Incorporating Social Entrepreneurship in Their Business

Hearpreneur

At FLYJETS, environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors are the driving force behind everything we do, and we seek to be proactive about delivering impact. Our leadership team came together at the end of 2019 to talk about the years ahead and how we improve our environment. 1- Three ways. Photo Credit: Jessica Fisher.

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

That is a common experience we hear from outsiders that there's only two cultures of Silicon Valley, and when we get into the funding and financing of companies, that that's really where the bias can come in. I mean, I think that's one thing that people miss often is that leadership is a philosophy, it's a set of principles.

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Philosopher Versus MBA

Reid Hoffman

I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution. In particular, Bill Sahlman’s Entrepreneurial Finance course was excellent. For example, MBA students take classes on accounting and finance. Like many first time founders, I ran over that landmine.

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Philosopher Versus MBA

Reid Hoffman

I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution. In particular, Bill Sahlman’s Entrepreneurial Finance course was excellent. For example, MBA students take classes on accounting and finance. Like many first time founders, I ran over that landmine.

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

We also talked about why he took a very public stance on the role of corporate leadership in social issues, and how it relates to fulfilling Coinbase's mission. What is the role of public and private organizations in governing our shared civic fabric? And of course, I wasn't really interested in the finance side of it to me.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being An Entrepreneur

Hearpreneur

Thanks to Heather Vickery, Success and Leadership Coach ! #6- As consumers look to brands for leadership and alignment in shared values it becomes important to create a product or service that also solves a problem. I wear many different hats in my role, from CEO through sales and marketing to finance and HR.

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Inventing Tomorrow’s Jobs – COVID-19 series

Start Up Blog

If only we have a way to capture it, store it and distribute it… Yes. We might just have arrived upon some dumb luck with the COVID crisis as Governments the world over may have to start investing in large infrastructure projects to the economic wheels turning. You read that right. That is 160,000 Terawatt hours of energy.

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