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This Philanthropist Is Winning Skirmishes With Poverty By Tapping Into An Inner City’s Entrepreneurial Spirit

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The criteria by which they evaluate potential portfolio non-profits are taken directly from a for-profit investor''s playbook: Compelling Product: evidence-based programs that target low-income, at-risk populations with robust programs, offering compelling outcomes and an attractive return on our investment.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

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Some quick data that I pulled from EmailisNotDead.com (mid 2012). The reduction in screen size has made the economic model of Internet advertising totally inefficient. Higher education. So I send Byron any SaaS investment I do at the earliest stage where I know we’ve nailed product / market fit. There are 2.9

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MuckerLab Unveils Second Graduating Class to Investors

Tech Zulu Event

MuckerLab has already secured its reputation as one of the hottest startup accelerators in town with a particular emphasis on product for incubation-stage software, services and media ventures. The further along the product is the better — because it shows commitment and the skills to execute.

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myLINGO | Connecting Non-English Speakers with the Movies

Tech Zulu Event

myLINGO is the first product of her company Oladas, Inc., OP: It was 2012 when my brother and I took our cousin who was visiting from Poland to go see the movie Hugo. But this feeling sort of dies out when you’re working with the product every day, and talking about your product every day.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

SoCal Delicious

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Matthew Clough is a social entrepreneur and creative professional who has dedicated himself to helping children get the educations they deserve in Tanzania, Africa. Idea Mensch. where entrepreneurs share their stories. Subscribe to RSS.

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US Economic Risks (Sept 2010): Impact on Investors & Entrepreneurs

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trillion out of our homes and spent 2/3rds of it on flat screen TVs, trips to Hawaii, time shares, Apple products and everything else we couldn’t afford. In California the primary school education system has cut 10 days from the school year to save jobs. We took $2.3 Sound familiar?