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5 Tips for Making Time to Make a Difference

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Yet, since late 2016, he has also worn the hat of chairman of the Maharashtra State Khadi and Village Industries Board (MSKIB) , a position that lets him serve as an agent and driver of social and economic change for rural communities throughout his home state in India.

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Marie Ekeland launches 2050, a new fund with radically ambitious, long-term goals

TechCrunch

With 2050, Ekeland is going back to the drawing board with a different vision when it comes to investment thesis, fund structure and the firm’s own values. For instance, 2050 will contribute to Université Paris Dauphine’s class on the ecological challenges of the 21st century. Investment is self-fulfilling,” Ekeland told me.

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SoTecIn: Connecting people

Impact Hub

At its core, SoTecIn Factory seeks to confront the inherent shortcomings of existing industrial models, which pose challenges both from a social and ecological perspective. And – you’ve guessed it – also the solutions will be co-designed with the SoTecIn community acting as a sounding board, advisor and steering committee.

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Founders from MIT With a Plan to Change How We Grow and Eat Food

Both Sides of the Table

Tack on the challenges with land, bee population decline, heavy use of ecologically destructive fertilizers and pesticides and extreme food waste and this adds up to a real global challenge. . It’s hard to grow enough food to meet these needs, not to mention in a sustainable way and in a world where water is increasingly in short supply.

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Five common misconceptions about building a startup in New York City

This is going to be BIG.

They show up at the NY Tech Meetup or post a job on the nextNY board and expect the developers to just come rolling through—when most of those groups are actually filled with other entrepreneurs looking for the same thing. Most new entrepreneurs don’t even know where to look for talent or how to attract it. They’re all doing pretty well.

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SoTecIn: Connecting people

Impact Hub

At its core, SoTecIn Factory seeks to confront the inherent shortcomings of existing industrial models, which pose challenges both from a social and ecological perspective. And – you’ve guessed it – also the solutions will be co-designed with the SoTecIn community acting as a sounding board, advisor and steering committee.

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The lion and the ant: A managerial lesson

Berkonomics

[Email readers, continue here…] The Lion was delighted with the cockroach’s report and asked him to produce graphs to describe production rates and analyze trends so that he could use them for presentations at board meetings, so the cockroach had to buy a new computer and a laser printer and recruit a fly to manage the IT department.