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5 Tips for Making Time to Make a Difference

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Vishal Chordia (pictured above, right, with Kimberley Hickok-Smith) was awarded the 2018 EO Global Citizen of the Year award in Toronto, Canada, in April 2018. Vishal is clear that he wants to enable honey and leather footwear entrepreneurs in rural areas to innovate their business models and scale their businesses immediately.

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Accelerating Sustainable Food Business Solutions to Reshape Our Cities

Impact Hub

Technological leaps have enabled many (though by no means all) of us city-dwellers to sustain ourselves adequately, despite breaking our traditional connection with agricultural life. It is almost certain that our global society will never again be predominantly agrarian. Photo: Sutton Community Farm. Feeding the City.

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AI-powered supply chain visibility platform Altana bags $100M

TechCrunch

Evan Smith believes that a key part of solving supply chain stability must involve enabling stakeholders, including businesses and governments, to build trust through a shared source of truth on the global supply chain. ” Altana was founded by Smith, Raphael Tehranian, Peter Swartz and Alan Bersin in December 2018.

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20 Years of Investing in Startups

Paul G. Silva

Ignitepost IgnitePOST is a service that enables sales & marketing teams to boost conversion rates by 15X. PV Grows A collaborative network dedicated to enhancing the ecological and economic sustainability and vitality of the Pioneer Valley food system. 2018 Libboo Accelerating great stories and big ideas. management.

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Holey Grail Donuts bites into $9M for Los Angeles retail expansion

TechCrunch

Holey Grail Donuts started selling its hand-fried, made-to-order taro donuts on Sunday mornings out of a little red burger trailer in Kauai in 2018. Dreiling, who was previously doing ecological engineering in Oregon, teamed up with his sister, Hana Dreiling, a private chef in Kauai, Hawaii, to start Holey Grail Donuts.

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