YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 3, 2012
In 2006, Muhammad Yunus, the bank’s founder and “the father of microfinance,” won the Nobel Peace Prize. In two years she has hired eight full-time employees, secured lucrative government contracts, and is able to support seven households besides her own in Amman. She is even mulling a run for office in the gas providers’ union.
Up and Running
AUGUST 21, 2014
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.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
The Next Web
JANUARY 24, 2014
Think of Werner Vogels (CTO of Amazon), Guido van Rossem (founder of Python programming language and senior engineer at Dropbox) or the more senior Gerard Kleisterlee (chairman of Vodafone). Mr. Willink would later bank roll the Louisiana Purchase - in someway a ‘super angel’ of the 18th century. But forget the quaint history facts.
Reid Hoffman
MAY 16, 2020
In a quote that’s often attributed to Charles Darwin – but was in fact a Louisiana State University management professor paraphrasing Darwin in 1963 , “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. And you didn’t need to get permission from the government or corporate gatekeepers.
crowdSPRING Blog
JULY 6, 2015
The founders early on identified the core issues and articulated the “problem;” they recognized the “opportunity” represented by the immense resources of the colonies; and they designed a “solution” in a new kind of government, ruled by the people themselves. Benjamin Franklin. Thomas Jefferson.
online.wsj.com
SEPTEMBER 23, 2012
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. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law.
Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 29, 2020
I chair a medical data research lab called WAMRI, and probably best known as the co-founder of fast.ai, although increasingly finding myself known, surprisingly enough to me, as the co-founder of this thing called #Masks4All. And for them, a lot of it was this kind of weird anti-government thing. Jeremy Howard : Sure.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
263 
Let's personalize your content