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Investing In Rural Startups: Green Card Targeted Employment Areas (TEAs)

The Startup Magazine

But if you’re just looking into getting an EB-5 green card, you’ve probably seen two investment types: the usual $1,800,000 investment or the $500,000 to $900,000 TEA investment. Is the USCIS saying you can invest in a project that’s $72,000 more than the average cost of a home and receive a permanent green card for it?

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Waiakea Water Joins List Of Sustainable Companies

YoungUpstarts

Here are some organizations committed to being green: World Wildlife Fund. Their office space is green. This company operates on the Big Island of Hawaii. Its workplace is green. Its product’s packaging is as green as possible. This organization is based in Washington, DC. Waiakea Water.

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What Motorcycling Can Teach You About Making Decisions

Up and Running

It’s been a long time now, but in my other life (when I was living in Hawaii and before I worked for Palo Alto Software), I was a motorcycle safety instructor. I look ahead to the next intersection and see the light’s green. I trained over 1,000 people through the Motorcycle Safety Foundation Basic Rider Course. Stay with me.

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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

“Our best chance to make the world better is to agree that the choice among corporate structures should be made entirely in service of social impact,” says Rich Leimsider, the Vice President of Fellowship Programs at Echoing Green, a nonprofit that invests with social entrepreneurs. Maryland was the first U.S.

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YouTubers Break Out Of Virtual World To Sell Out Real Stages

ReadWriteStart

The latest case in point: John and Hank Green of the Vlog Brothers’ sold-out show at Carnegie Hall last Tuesday night. Let’s hope the Greens possess an “any publicity is good publicity” attitude. (The John and Hank Green are by no means the first YouTube act to find an audience in the real world.

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What Is a Benefit Corporation?

Up and Running

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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A Guide For Men Who Refuse To Settle

Duct Tape Marketing

I've been waiting for, you know, something to come along and gimme the green light to make this shift in my business. I remember being out in Hawaii and people like, wow, that's amazing. I don't want to do that anymore. I've been using, I've been waiting for permission to show up as my biggest self. I'm tired of waiting.