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An Invitation to Explore and Adopt “Capitalism With Care”

Entrepreneurs' Organization

During the Great Recession of 2008-10, Kent guided dozens of CEOs and their companies successfully through the crisis and positioned them to capitalize on the economic expansion that followed. We asked Kent how embracing conscious capitalism during the COVID-19 crisis can benefit companies both in the short- and long-term.

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15 Years of Founders’ Co-op

Founders Coop

We started the firm in 2008, on the cusp of the Global Financial Crisis, and it’s somehow fitting to be entering our 15th year as the laws of financial gravity reassert themselves once again. Startups are defined by velocity and growth, learning and adapting faster than your competitors on the path to dominance in your chosen category.

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Sequoia picks its horse in the consumer carbon offset market, leading a $2.5 million round for Joro

TechCrunch

Sanchali Pal first woke up to the world’s climate crisis after watching the 2008 documentary Food Inc. The app also has a community component, connecting users with sustainability challenges, classes and other educational tools, along with a social network to communicate with peers to track relative progress.

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Meet Tatiana Glad, our New Global Executive Director

Impact Hub

A: It is an honour to step into this role and have the opportunity to build on the legacy of our past decade and help forge the next one – given the urgent need we now have in the world for sustainable solutions. We’re excited to share that Tatiana Glad joins the Impact Hub global team as our new Executive Director. Why this role?

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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. One of the best things any investor can do is to pull back from the day to day of getting pitches and think about high level trends. What areas are going to change? What areas need to be disrupted? Reader beware.).

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STEM funding boosts state’s economy

Innovation 2 Enterprise

As legislators and business leaders, we should be asking ourselves every day: How do we create a sustainable model that creates more and better paying jobs in Oklahoma even when the economy stalls at some point in the future? Since 2008, OCAST’s budget has been cut by nearly 40 percent — from about $22 million down to $13.4

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Project Octane: Kicking Into Gear

Entrepreneurs' Organization

For EO Chicago’s Zak Dabbas and Ryan Unger , co-founders of Punchkick Interactive, a mobile app and web development agency, the secret to their sustainability comes from “going flat.” Ryan Unger (RU) / “It was 2008, and Zak and I were still building our business from the ground up. WALK US THROUGH THE ORIGINS OF PUNCHKICK INTERACTIVE.