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What does it take to go carbon neutral as a business?

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Who better to move our world forward toward greater sustainability than today’s greatest innovators? . As the founder and CEO of AmberMedia —a media company based in Berlin, Germany—Karsten has been working toward carbon neutrality for a decade. He founded AmberMedia in 2002. is a step in the right direction.

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With a focus on patients with chronic illness, Nourish hopes to help Americans eat better

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” That’s because since 2002, medical nutrition therapy has fallen under the scope of Medicare under certain criteria, a move that led major private insurers to follow suit. “We focus on a long-term, sustainable approach — truly a lifestyle change,” she said. Most of the rest just have a small co-pay.”

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A Powerful Resource for Business Growth

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“Being in Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), ultimately, might have saved my life,” says Michelle Menard , co-founder of Choice Translating and member of EO Charlotte. In 2002, Michelle and her husband Vernon joined the Charlotte chapter, which counts over 80 members and is the creator of the Global Entrepreneur Indicator (GEI).

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AI-powered building design platform BeamUP emerges from stealth with $15M

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Designing for sustainability adds even more complexity to the process, chiefly because it requires integrating “green” principles and complying with environmental laws and regulations. The slow uptake threatens to impede the industry’s progress toward desired goals, like improved sustainability.

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Some Career Advice for Aspiring Tech CEOs

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For some aspiring to be tech entrepreneurs, I often suggest a two-step process, as I argued in this post that “ The First Startup Founder You Need to Invest in Is You.” The narrative of this discussion is something like this: I meet a 35-40-year-old founder with two kids and mortgage. She joined Yahoo!

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The Book that Reveals 10 Steps to Solving Any Complex Problem

Entrepreneurs' Organization

” Once they identified the steps, they started using the formula with senior leaders from across the Fortune 500, governments, and not-for-profit organizations in 2002. And, they require stakeholder buy-in for sustained execution. Why did you write this book?

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Second-Class Investor Citizens: Facebook’s IPO and Dual-Class Equity Structures

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Some commentators have suggested this is the wave of the future, signifying a shift in the balance of power from investors to founders of the relatively small, elite group of growth companies that make it to public markets. Options and warrants, when issued, are also typically exercisable for shares of Common Stock.

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