With SMBD help, businesses off to a honey of a start
It takes a village to produce a business, and Daven Lee has done just that -- in the form of her Milk and Honey Soap, which is made in Santa Fe and sold all over the country.
Rural broadband via nonprofit networks
President Barack Obama said in his State of the Union address that he wants to upgrade the nation's "critical infrastructure," including our "incomplete high-speed broadband network that prevents a small business owner in rural America from selling her products all over the world."
Why-PO? Mark Zuckerberg’s Strange Plan to Finance Facebook
Facebook’s decision to sell stock to the public for the first time dominated business news last week. The announcement came after a year of internet companies going public with massive fanfare—the professionalnetwork LinkedIn, social gaming company Zynga , and GroupOn with the largest public launch since Google’s in 2004. After years of speculation about a public offering, Facebook is the only ...
A Charity's Business Plan Faces Trouble
When Quebecor World closed its 685,000-square-foot printing plant in Salem, Ill., in 2002, it left a huge hole in the small city’s economy. More than 800 jobs were gone. A signature industrial building was left vacant. A city with fewer than 9,000 residents lost an anchor business.
SV2 takes 'venture philanthropy' to kids
A tried and true Silicon Valley business model, venture capital funding for start-ups, has moved into the world of local philanthropy.
Passion, persistence, partnerships mark winners’ year
First Place winner DonorCommunity is building a name in the nonprofit industry.