… and how articulating values can hurt your company. Exec Summary Recent studies confirm that a positive culture has a direct impact on profitability. In addition, companies which have articulated values which they live up to outperform those that have none, while those that have articulated values which they fail to live up to underperform those […]
Startup aims to cultivate legit business skills in drug dealers
This startup aims to cultivate legit business skills in drug dealers. The founder, Bashaun Brown, is an ex-con who turned his shady business skills to good and is trying to get others to do the same. Funded by a grant for social entrepreneurship, he’s latched onto the need to get sustainable funding for his enterprise. […]
Singapore Helps Startups Focussing on Serving the Old and Mentally Ill
In Singapore, startups will be taken through a series of workshops including work with the aged and mentally ill, as well as user design and business planning, to come up with sustainable businesses to serve the sector. Those that make it to the last round will also get funding to get started. Great stimulus to […]
Using crowdfunding to ethically bribe companies to make social changes
Interesting take on crowdfunding. If there’s a company you’d like to see make an ethical change, you promise to spend cash there if they do it. If enough people pledging enough spending join you, and the company makes the change, you then spend your pledge and reward the company for ‘doing the right thing’. Ethical […]
How A Mexican Startup is Turning Mango Scraps Into Nutritional Gold
EatLimmo is making a success of recycling Mango waste to a nutritious powder that it sells to bakeries and others. An act of food alchemy, taking waste, turning it into something nutritious, and developing a profitable company along the way. Mango is just the start – they are looking at other foodwaste. Based in Mexico, […]