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10 Sharing Principles Propel Many Current Businesses

Startup Professionals Musings

If you are at the funding stage, try the new crowd-funding platforms or micro-capital investments. Bring focus on your core competencies and expertise by educating and helping others, who can then return the favor by helping you or buying from you. Review your current investment in “creating goodwill.” Adjust accordingly.

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7 Considerations For Setting Your Bottom Line Balance

Startup Professionals Musings

Starting and running any business is hard work, so the last thing you need is “success” with no satisfaction. A responsible entrepreneur promotes both loyalty and responsible consumption by educating consumers so they can make more informed decisions about their purchases, based on ecological footprints, and other sustainability criteria.

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5 Reasons That Successful Non-Profits Are A Challenge

Startup Professionals Musings

Technically speaking, in the United States, a non-profit corporation or association is one which has been exempted from Federal income taxes by meeting the criteria set out Section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code, most notably religious, educational, and charitable entities like the Salvation Army. unless it relies wholly on donations.

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5 Ways To Make It Easier To Do What Matters At Work

Startup Professionals Musings

Once you have learned, your top- priority task must be to educate others around you. If you invest the time and effort to install and upgrade processes and systems, you can replicate results and grow the business without multiplying your own efforts. Lift: propagate your strength by teaching others.

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7 Keys To Balancing Profits Versus A Higher Purpose

Startup Professionals Musings

Starting and running any business is hard work, so the last thing you need is “success” with no satisfaction. A responsible entrepreneur promotes both loyalty and responsible consumption by educating consumers so they can make more informed decisions about their purchases, based on ecological footprints, and other sustainability criteria.

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5 Reality Checks On Running A Charitable Organization

Startup Professionals Musings

Technically speaking, in the United States, a non-profit corporation or association is one which has been exempted from Federal income taxes by meeting the criteria set out Section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code, most notably religious, educational, and charitable entities like the Salvation Army. unless it relies wholly on donations.

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10 Incentives For Entrepreneurs To Bootstrap Their Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

People who give you money like to talk about their great investment, and competitors see you coming. That takes more money and time to set up, and more people to re-train and re-educate when forced to redirect your strategy. Yet we all apply pressure to ourselves to do these things to our own satisfaction.

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