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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. B corp, or Benefit Corporation. .

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A Conversation with 2020 Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang

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On his website, he states that, “new technologies – robots, software, artificial intelligence – have already destroyed more than 4 million US jobs, and in the next 5-10 years, they will eliminate millions more. Any of those changes would require a wholesale revolution in the way we distribute and measure value and work.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Computer Software. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. Software. - Accounting.

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The Power Of Play In Business Culture

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So you can spend less time managing software and more time on what matters your customers. Our Michigan operations weren't shut down quite as badly. John Jantsch (17:05): We're completely distributed as, as well. It's why more than 150,000 companies already use HubSpot's CRM to run their businesses better.

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2012 Valuation Survey of Angel Groups

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Pre-revenue software, internet, mobile and telecom deals. BELLE Capital (Michigan). The distribution of groups in the survey includes a relatively representative sampling of angel groups across the US and Canada. Kiwi software deals were funded at a pre-money valuation of US1.4 Pre-revenue energy and clean tech.

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Why the Browser Matters

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After Mosaic, even Marc and his co-founder Jim Clark originally planned a business for video distribution to run on top of the proprietary Information Super Highway , not the Internet. At the time, software was considered extremely valuable and nobody was allowed to download it without going through a complex registration process.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. Faulted for Michigan Oil Spill. What They Know.