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: 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
By: Rebecca Grekin Hilton Hotels had not introduced a new brand of hotels in 20 years, but that all changed in North Carolina in 2011 with the arrival of Home2Suites. This new brand has a trendy and modern focus, not only providing a comfortable hotel for weary travelers, but also an eco-friendly and tech-savvy environment. … Continue reading Home 2 Suites: The Revolutionary New Way to Run a Hotel
By: Michelle Nguyen Imagine going to Ecuador with the intention of building a school for an impoverished community in two weeks. Imagine leaving there with nothing built. That was the predicament brothers Craig and Marc Kielburger faced as the end of their two weeks loomed ominously before them. With only two days left, the Kielburgers … Continue reading Me to We – Minga
By: Jennifer Luu Amber Koonce is your typical college girl attending school like other students except that she has done something meaningful in addition to her schoolwork. Amber was inspired to create BeautyGap after a trip to Ghana where she noticed how insecure many women were with their appearance. One woman even told her that … Continue reading BeautyGap
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