Sentences with phrase «starting social ventures»

Many young entrepreneurs, and older ones as well, are starting social ventures because money doesn't provide enough motivation.

Breaking down the steps of starting a social venture has been inspirational to me.

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When I started this venture a bit over a year ago, I knew nothing about building websites or the importance of social media.

Right from the start, the founders of San Franciscobased nonprofit Social Venture Network wanted a «safe harbor» where social - activist entrepreneurs could meet to commiserate, coinvest in deals, and share best pracSocial Venture Network wanted a «safe harbor» where social - activist entrepreneurs could meet to commiserate, coinvest in deals, and share best pracsocial - activist entrepreneurs could meet to commiserate, coinvest in deals, and share best practices.

Saildrone started as a nonprofit endeavor with the Schmidts» philanthropic foundation, but in August 2015, Jenkins decided to turn it into a for - profit venture and raised $ 14 million from venture capital firms Social Capital, Lux Capital, and Capricorn Investment Group.

Social entrepreneurship, the creation of new ventures with a social purpose, takes many forms, from clean energy start - ups to initiatives aimed at improving early educSocial entrepreneurship, the creation of new ventures with a social purpose, takes many forms, from clean energy start - ups to initiatives aimed at improving early educsocial purpose, takes many forms, from clean energy start - ups to initiatives aimed at improving early education.

Since December, venture capitalists have invested more than $ 90 million in start - ups that mix marketing and social media, writes the Wall Street Journal, but questions remain about how much social media marketing is really worth.

Founded by CEO Amol Deshpande, a former venture investor with Kleiner Perkins, FBN started as a kind of professional social network for farmers.

We asked three different entrepreneurs from Green Spaces to give us the skinny on what it's like starting up a green business or social venture today.

To get a sense for what it's like starting up environment - friendly and social ventures today, we reached out to three founders based out of NYC's Green Spaces incubator.

But before we start rolling our eyes at yet another social media venture looking at brands to pay the bills, Keek's most pressing priority is to attract users.

Business leaders have set up social venture funds, started social entrepreneurship activities within their corporations, taken into account social innovations; and governments have passed legislation in favour of the creation of social enterprises

Bringing Science To Early Stage Investing Social Starts is a $ 60M + venture capital partnership with a uniquely data - driven approach to investing in moment - of - inception and Series A financing rounds.

«Just as the formation of the venture capital industry ushered a new approach and mindset toward funding innovation within the private sector, impact investment has started to bring opportunities to harness entrepreneurship and capital markets to drive social improvement.»

The fundraising round was led by venture - capital firm DFJ, which has previously backed several social - minded retail start - ups.

The investment is led by New York - based $ 20M + venture fund Social Starts, alongside a group of private investors, and comes after a recent surge in users and revenue for the dating app.

From the start, attempts to turn philanthropy into social investing and to apply principles of venture capital to grantmaking have run into a single enormous obstacle: the absence of performance metrics that would allow one to determine anything remotely close to «social return on investment.»

Learning Through Libraries, a nonprofit started by Harvard Graduate School of Education students, has been selected as semifinalists in the Pitch for Change contest, which awards individuals and teams for their new social enterprise venture.

Shortly after Luka's diagnosis, Glogovac went from consulting with venture capitalists and start - ups to head up CanadaHelps, a not - for - profit social enterprise that facilitates donations for any Canadian charity.

Starting with the importance, or strength of the «Social Object»: I would venture that «doing business», «trade», «investigate and act on an opportunity», «earn money», is extremely strong, maybe the top one, after all that is a core activity driver that made humankind survive.

Among the major deals announced before work started to wither, Shearman advised medical device maker Synthes on its proposed $ 21 billion acquisition by Johnson & Johnson, Chinese social media player Renren on its initial public offering in the United States, and Dow Chemical on its planned $ 20 billion joint venture with Saudi Aramco, which should keep lawyers busy for years to come.

An interactive education and books crossover started by some of the founders of Zynga's main social gaming rival is taking on $ 4 million in venture funding.

Now, just a few months later, it's announcing that it's closed a $ 6 million series A funding round at the end of last year that was led by Social Capital, the venture capital firm started by Chamath Palihapitiya, an early Facebook executive.

Recently, South Korean authorities have started to discuss the possibility of legalizing domestic initial coin offerings (ICOs) once again, after Kakao, the country's largest internet conglomerate that operates KakaoTalk, KakaoPay, KakaoStory, KakaoStock, and KakaoTaxi, the country's largest app that have nearly 90 percent market share of the messaging, payment, social media, online stock brokerage, and taxi service markets, revealed its plans to move its blockchain venture outside of South Korea.