By: Linda Lattimore The word “value” is under microscopic review these days as people assess their own self-worth, the values their employers’ exhibit, the impact of their financial investments and the types of companies they want to partner with through their purchasing power. As the sectors collide, the supreme importance of dollars and cents as … Continue reading Step One – Your Value Proposition
By: Linda Lattimore You spent a lot of time thinking about the goals and dreams for your company while you created it, getting input from your board, investors and stakeholders on the best way to move forward. In your business plan, you synthesized your mission in your mission statement, telling anyone interested in your company … Continue reading Are you Falling Prey to “Mission Drift”?
By: Linda Lattimore Historically, crowd funding sites have only been permitted to operate on a reward or donation basis, meaning their participants could only offer a product, discount, or enticement in exchange for monetary funding. With the launch of the JOBS Act (Jumpstart Our Business Startups), in 2012, the ability for the general public and unaccredited … Continue reading The U.S. JOBS Act – A Slow Takeoff
By: Linda Lattimore Crowdfunding is an avenue to fund your venture by raising many small contributions of money from a large number of people such as your friends, family, customers, or other individual investors supporting your cause or business, typically via the Internet. For those interested in causes, crowdfunding is a perfect marriage of philanthropy, … Continue reading Crowdfunding – Is it for You?
By: Michelle Nguyen If you live in a developed country, it is easy to overlook how readily accessible knowledge is – from the internet to the bookstores located right on the corner, most people can get news with relative ease. However, it is a different story for emerging nations. With a lack of available information, … Continue reading A Digital Library for the Developing World
By: Kimberly Czechowski TOMS shoes is a company that was created in 2006 by Blake Mycoskie. As a participant in the second season of The Amazing Race, Blake traveled to Argentina with his sister. During his trip, he noticed that many of the local children did not have shoes to protect their feet. Mycoskie desperately … Continue reading TOMS Shoes
By: Rebecca Grekin Intel is respected in the technology field for its superior and innovative processors and it has been praised by many as a leader for its commitment to corporate social responsibility. Founded by visionaries, Gordon E. Moore and Robert Noyce, in 1968, the company began making the semiconductors used in many modern electronics … Continue reading Intel: Innovation in More than Just Technology
By: Kimberly Czechowski In the early 1970’s, Anita Roddick visited a shop in Berkeley, California called The Body Shop, where naturally scented soaps and lotions were being sold. The store used natural ingredients and helped train immigrant woman. This store inspired Anita to open her own store in the UK in 1976, where she bought … Continue reading The Body Shop
By: Michelle Nguyen It all started with a waffle. Daniel Blake was eating one at a buffet when a thought occurred to him. What would happen to all the leftover food from the buffet? Blake went home and did a little research. On average, Americans throw away 40% of their food a year, which is … Continue reading EcoScraps. No Chemicals. No Poop. Organic.
By: Rebecca Grekin Kite Patch is a new product that has been developed by Olfactor Laboratories, an ieCrowd company, short for Innovation Economy Crowd. ieCrowd searches for new, innovative, scientific breakthroughs and then partners with the entrepreneurs, offering support, expertise, capital, and access to global markets to help launch their projects. Its mission is to … Continue reading Kite Patch: Tricking Mosquitoes – Saving Lives
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