Up and Running
AUGUST 6, 2014
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. “Our What does a social enterprise look like?
David Teten
APRIL 1, 2021
Relationships with Venture Partners, Entrepreneurs in Residence , and other non-salaried personnel who can help your companies. For example, I suggest it doesn’t make a lot of sense to hire a full-time team member who’s an SEO consultant. John Maeda, formerly Design Partner, KPCB; formerly President of Rhode Island School of Design.
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Campus Entrepreneurship
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
Founders include some Brown University engineering students and and a computer science major at the University of Rhode Island. BTW, we recently posted on the upcoming 2011 Rhode Island Business Plan Competition (which will award nearly $200,000 to start ups in Rhode Island.).
Up and Running
SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
See Also: Practical Market Research Resources for Entrepreneurs. See Also: 20 Business Laws Every Entrepreneur Should Know in 2015. An interior designer was hired to make the space shine. Ultimately, they decided on a location in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, located right off the 95 and on every major bus route.
entrepreMusings
JULY 6, 2013
In contrast, small business owners gave Hawaii, Maine and Rhode Island an “F,” while California and Illinois rounded out the bottom five, both earning a “D” grade. Thumbtack.com is a place where you can hire help locally. The top performing cities were Austin, Virginia Beach and Houston. What is Thumbtack.com ?
Reid Hoffman
OCTOBER 17, 2018
Rule #2: Hire Ms. For most of Silicon Valley’s history, the conventional wisdom on hiring executives into a startup was to quickly bring in an executive who could scale. This meant hiring someone who had experience with much bigger organizations, the idea being that their experience would come in handy at a later stage.
Reid Hoffman
JUNE 8, 2021
And I hired a COO, Belinda Johnson , and she said, “No, if people don’t like you, you should meet with them.” When I was at RISD, I went to Rhode Island School of Design, there was this idea that was emerging called The Green Movement, the sustainability movement. But Joe and me were designers from Rhode Island School of Design.
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