Start-Up!

05/10/2019

An easy business plan 5 page
https://bit.ly/2vpfjsl

02/07/2014

Learn something new! and make a difference

http://plusacumen.org/courses/

We created +acumen to give people a meaningful way to “add Acumen” to their lives. Our online leadership courses are an exciting new way to dig deeper into Acumen’s work and develop your own toolkit for change. Take what you learn at +acumen and apply it in your own way. Innovation could come from…

01/31/2014

http://www.upandcoming.coop/

On Friday, February 28, 2014, people from new co-ops across the country will gather in Bloomington, Indiana for the 5th year of a conference known as UCUR (it sounds like "euchre"): Up and Coming, Up and Running 2014.

01/11/2014

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/annie-jie-xu/7-ecommerce-trends-small-_1_b_4557164.html?ir=Small+Business&ref=topbar

The unifying factor of 2014's 7 e-commerce trends is that they benefit both consumer and business alike. Better e-commerce means a memorable shopping experience for consumers with more options, better services, and lower prices.

04/25/2013

http://lifehacker.com/the-seven-elements-of-a-creative-personality-480346063

Forget Myers-Briggs. A study out of BI Norwegian Business School has determined the signposts of a "creative" personality. There are seven of them, so if you’re thinking about quitting your job as a lawyer or stock analyst to go on tour with your band or finally write that novel, you might want to c...

04/24/2013

http://startup1.org/african-american-community-in-pittsburgh-experiencing-historic-non-transfer-of-wealth/

African American community in Pittsburgh experiencing historic non-transfer of wealthPosted on April 24, 2013 by carlosA look at a map of municipal property tax foreclosures shows a sea of read ink in our urban neighborhoods. Urban homeowners acquired ownership during the steel boom, now they are li...

03/14/2013

Youth Run Tech Coop, know any youth in Homewood that would be interested in becoming entrepreneurs and members of a worker owned coop? http://startup1.org/

A Youth Run Tech CoopPosted on March 14, 2013 by carlosCompU a Youth Run Tech Coop Here is a business model idea that aims to engage youth in learning about technology and small business development. It also aims to provide an alternative to rent-to-own computers and very affordable Internet access…

01/23/2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/21/us/new-pubs-send-profits-to-charity.html?smid=go-share&_r=0

Some beer halls across the country are opening with the goal of selling alcohol and donating the profits to charities.

12/23/2012

http://www.fastcompany.com/3004171/best-workspaces-2012?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

Throughout the year, the folks at Lifehacker feature the coolest workspaces from all over the world, submitted by everyone from professional designers to journalists to photographers to DIY aficionados who've discovered a new, creative home-office hack. They've rounded up 20 of the year's most popul...

12/11/2012

http://www.khanacademy.org/about

With a library of over 3,000 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and hundreds of skills to practice, we're on a mission to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace.

12/10/2012

"Journey of a thousand miles must begin with the first step" - Lao Tzu

12/10/2012

Thinking of how this could work for Start-Up

http://electriceducator.blogspot.com/2010/09/flip-your-classroom-through-reverse.html

John,What an awesome post! I've never read about this approach, but it makes so much sense! It's so important to keep on questioning why we do what we do. I'm unsure how I'd implement it in English classes, but thanks for making me consider it and question what I can do better to "flip" instruction....

07/09/2012

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/the-power-and-the-peril-of-our-crowdfunded-future/259304/

Kiva co-founder Jessica Jackley on the rise of "Kickstarters for XYZ"

04/25/2012

http://www.creativitypost.com/create/tina_seeligs_insights_on_creativity

"Interacting with the world requires creative problem solving every day. Every sentence we utter is unique. We don’t just have robotic answers (...). Our brains are creativity machines".

04/25/2012

http://action.encore.org/page/m/59b06787/4e66fc3d/23a2853e/672a054e/1641200893/VEsE/

Randal Charlton had great strokes of midlife success — then he didn't. He did well co-founding Asterand, an ethically sourced human-tissue sampling business, but lost his shirt on a jazz club and a cattle-ranching enterprise to produce low-fat beef. At a time when he was really down on his luc...

01/30/2012

Very inspiring...no capital should not stop us from creating for a livable planet

When you think of the ideal creative environment, what comes to mind? We may imagine a place where you have freedom of expression, a place that encourages breaking convention, somewhere that is abundant in resources that are readily accessible for innovative development of technology, and exposure ...