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Going Green Is The Next Black

YoungUpstarts

According to a recent report , there was a 59-percent jump last year in the number of businesses that have gone green. This is great for the environment, plus nine out of ten of those businesses experienced cost savings by going green. From saving trees to your bottom line – it may not be easy, but it’s great being green!

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Why Now Is The Right Time For New Green Technology

YoungUpstarts

For green technology, the barriers — high costs, lack of supporting infrastructure, the weight of tradition — have been especially prohibitive. But the timing is finally right for some green tech to take off. The time in the spotlight is finally here for green innovations like permeable pavement. The Rise of Green Technology.

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Love And Giving Aren’t Green: Startups & Corporate Social Impact

YoungUpstarts

I witnessed people who rarely worked together, in part due to their proclivity to stay behind their laptop screens, bonding over frosting-piping and giggling over their poorly engineered graham cracker rooftops that perpetually squashed their “perfect homes.” Use what money can’t buy.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

“Staple green cards to the diplomas of foreign students who graduate from any U.S. He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. TWTFelipe and everybody like him who want to start high-tech, green tech or other scientific companies in the US should be encouraged to do so.

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Lean Meets Wicked Problems

Steve Blank

This meant the class was team-based, Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering) and experiential – where the students, rather than being presented with all of the essential information, must discover that information rapidly for themselves.

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Tips For Going Green For St. Patrick’s Day

YoungUpstarts

There’s never been a better time to go green. Patrick’s Day festivities and wear something green – and consider the following tips to make sure your business is green too: 1. Since most packaging material ends up thrown away, this is a great way to feel good about your green footprint. Waste is piling up.

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28 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Entrepreneurs They Consider to be Successful

Hearpreneur

Photo Credit: Joseph Greene. Thanks to Joseph Greene, Trinidad Birding ! #11- By creating Google, Sundar didn't only create a money-making search engine, but he also created easy access to compiled and comprehensive information that would've taken a massive time and effort to find. Photo Credit: James Green.