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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

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. What does a social enterprise look like?

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

Resources are what the team needs to hire or own inside their company — the team’s physical, financial, human and intellectual property. Activities might include hardware or software development, mastering a 10,000 mile supply chain, low-cost manufacturing, or to provide services in a foreign country.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

Resources are what the team needs to hire or own inside their company — the team’s physical, financial, human and intellectual property. Activities might include hardware or software development, mastering a 10,000 mile supply chain, low-cost manufacturing, or to provide services in a foreign country.

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3 Challenges Your Business Should Consider Before Expanding International

YoungUpstarts

Germans, for example, are adverse to using credit cards, unlike customers in United Kingdom. Special characteristics are especially in the distribution of digital products: Until 2015, tax matters had been transacted in the vendor’s home country. Does the online shop need to hire staff in the target country?

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Entrepreneurs, Commit Not These 7 Deadly Sins

YoungUpstarts

How else can you define a sales process or know what to look for when you hire a sales manager or seek distribution partnerships? Besides, company founders have to learn first-hand what it takes to win over customers. If you dread calling on customers, you can’t be a successful entrepreneur. Get a different job. They aren’t.

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WeWork: Blitzscaling or Blitzflailing?

Reid Hoffman

If you add together Apple, Alphabet, eBay, Facebook*, Lyft, Palo Alto Networks*, PayPal, Salesforce, ServiceNow*, Twitter, Uber, and Workday*, these twelve companies alone have a market capitalization of $3 Trillion, a little bit more than the annual GDP of the United Kingdom in 2018. Distribution. Distribution.

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Benchmarking Performance: Your Options, Dos, Don'ts and To-Die-Fors!

Occam's Razor

The sources providing this information continue to be insightful in many services they offer, and you should definitely hire them if you need those services. And you also have, perhaps more useful, the industry wide acquisition strategy distribution. Just skip the we can give you data and benchmarks on performance bits.

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