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What is a Social Enterprise?

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L3Cs were first formed in 2008, and are currently only legal in Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, and Wyoming, as well as the federal jurisdictions of the Crow Indian Nation of Montana, and the Oglala Sioux Tribe. B corp, or Benefit Corporation. Outdoor wear company Patagonia is a B corp.

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How to Translate Your Passion Into Your Purpose

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How to Translate Your Passion Into Your Purpose written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Liz Elting In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Liz Elting, the co-founder and CEO of the award-winning TransPerfect. I mean huge global companies, but they needed other things.

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Welcome to The Frontier – An Ode To Startups

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Following is a guest post by Zack Rosen , co-founder and CEO of Pantheon. That summer, this bumpkin/badass former governor from Vermont running for president (Howard Dean) had found this guy Joe Trippi to run his presidential campaign. Pantheon is building “A big badass platform that will run 30% of the Internet.”

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What Is a Benefit Corporation?

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Now, you can create a benefit corporation in: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington D.C., with many more states in the pending legislation phase.

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21 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

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Eventually, the company was led to global dominance by Alfred P. Forbes, Shopify, and Gillette are among the clients who have learned how FUBU developed a successful global brand. 5- WhatsApp founders. One of my favorite business turnarounds is the story of the founders of WhatsApp. Thanks to Tyler Martin, ThinkTyler ! #5-

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

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Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., And companies that didnt survive might have closed their doors for reasons other than failure, for example, getting acquired or the founders moving on to new projects. Globaloney: Globalization Challenged. Breaking Up (With a Co-Founder) Is Hard to Do.

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How to Start a Farm: Your Complete Guide to Success

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It was created by Taylor Reid, the founder of Beginning Farmers. The University of Vermont Extension has a whole lot more to say about hobby farming versus running a farm as a business. This is a global site. If this is the case, beware that the tax implications for hobby farms are quite different that for business farms.