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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

states for-profit companies can accept donations and nonprofit companies earn revenue, which dispels the myths that a nonprofit can’t make money, or a for-profit venture would miss out on donations. Written by the founder of social enterprise Tom’s Shoes, this book is full of tips for making a difference with your business.

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A Startup Journey With GrubHub Founder Mike Evans

Duct Tape Marketing

A Startup Journey With GrubHub Founder Mike Evans written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. He's the founder of GrubHub and he founded in his spare bedroom and grew it to a multi billion dollar online food delivery. Marketing Podcast with Mike Evans. This is John Jantsch. My guest today is Mike Evans.

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What Freedom Looks Like

David Cohen

That’s why, this Juneteenth, I’ve invited Makisha Boothe, Founder and Head Business Coach of Sistahbiz Global Network , a business accelerator for Black women entrepreneurs, to write this guest post which I invite you to help amplify. You scale this idea and this is directly going to impact the opportunity gap in education.

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5 Ways Writing A Book Will Supercharge Your Online Presence

Duct Tape Marketing

Aside from an awesome foreword written by John Jantsch, we have an incredible list of endorsements from the likes of BNI founder Dr. Ivan Misner, Copyblogger’s Brian Clark, New York Times bestselling author Michael Port, and many more thought leaders and tech company CEOs. Trust me, if I can write a book, you can too.

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8 Challenges To Overcome In The Growth Of Hyperlocal

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurs don’t realize that Facebook spent over $100 million, before revenues from advertising turned cash positive. Business founders need deep pockets for this model. Hyperlocal in New York City is different from hyperlocal in Kansas. Maintaining current content is costly and time-consuming.

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How Decisions Define Our Business Destiny

Duct Tape Marketing

He is the co-founder of McKee Wallwork, a nationally recognized marketing advisory firm that made the Inc. Recent, an episode featured Max Novak, the founder of Nova Cast, where he talked all about how podcast booking campaigns create value for listeners and for brands. And you can listen to it all on your lunch break.

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Five common misconceptions about building a startup in New York City

This is going to be BIG.

If they *all* turn you down, then I strongly advocate that you either try to get revenues to prove them wrong, bootstrap user traction, spend your own cash, go with friends/family, or maybe, just maybe, take another look at your model. Perhaps actually listening to the feedback you get from them might be helpful.