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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

An excellent example of a social enterprise is The Empowerment Plan β€”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. According to the Harvard Business Review, in most U.S.

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Export Online Without Frontiers: A Global Map of B2B Marketplaces

The Startup Magazine

That could be a standard sale contract, i.e. buy and sell single items or batches, or a partnership agreement, i.e. contract manufacturing, sales agency, or distribution agreement. Based in the United Kingdom, UpinSales focuses solely on connecting companies with agents. B2B Marketplaces in Asia. Not all businesses like that.

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WeWork: Blitzscaling or Blitzflailing?

Reid Hoffman

We argued extensively in our book, Blitzscaling , that these strategies and tactics describe why Silicon Valley Bay Area – which has a population of less than 4 million – generates such a massively disproportionate number of global technology companies. Distribution. Distribution. What makes a company Blitzscale-able?

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6 Essential Principles Of Designing a High Converting Site Search Experience

ConversionXL

As powerful as self-optimizing results are, the technology can truthfully be expensive. Understanding the different ways people might describe the same item becomes especially important if you cater to an international customer base, where multiple countries might technically speak the same language, but the vernacular is widely different.

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Innovate Israel Conference Brings 28 Israeli startups to London

VC Cafe

Potential partnerships with media and telecom giants make it attractive enough though, and hopefully there will be cross polination between the Israeli startups and the great tech cluster in London. Utilizing a recently developed innovative technology, BetterView leads a revolution in the content world. Applicaster - Company Website.