Sentences with phrase «young social ventures»

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

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His findings, including that 33 percent of female tech entrepreneurs reported facing «dismissive attitudes» from their colleagues and 15 percent said their abilities had been questioned, came in a presentation in which he decried the «arrogant young brats» — male, of course — getting venture capital funding for «silly social media apps» from investors who hope they will emerge as the «next Mark Zuckerberg.»

Focus on tech - prep programs, ventures that join high schools to community colleges, work - study, schedules that blend school with jobs, voluntarism and community service, and kindred ways of tapping into the «affective,» pecuniary, and social sides of young people.

One of the greatest of these assets is the ideas and enthusiasm of a school's young people and by getting them involved in new social business ventures the value of those ventures increases exponentially.

Vivienne Harr, the young Founder of Make a Stand with Biz Stone, Founder of Twitter talked about their new venture, and Rose Broome, Founder of HandUp, creates social impact technology that serves the homeless population among others at this two day inaugural tech event.