Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

AUGUST 19, 2020

Here, she learned more about volunteerism and also learned about the United Nations Agenda for Sustainable Development. “It Seeing the difference between the two countries and the difference in programming between them,” as well as the emphasis on sustainability, she thought to herself, “why are we not talking about this in Peru?”

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JUNE 20, 2013

While any exit in NYC is great, what makes this particularly special to those of us on this side of the river is that it was the first tech startup in Brooklyn to sell that was a) native, b) bought for what it did, and perhaps, more importantly, c) had a model whose idea was native to the ideals we promote in this community, namely creativity.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 5, 2024

During nine custom-designed Learn Around excursions to Singapore businesses, most owned by EO members, groups of EO members enjoyed behind-the-scenes access to local enterprises including Creative Eateries , LionsBot International , Brass Lion Distillery , LeVel 33 Brewery , and Goldbell Group.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 7, 2022

Have you dreamed of starting a creative business? After the collective trauma that was 2020 and 2021, many of us are feeling burnt out, both creatively and mentally. It‘s possible to build a business and a life you love out of your creativity that is both fulfilling and profitable. . Here’s how to get started.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 23, 2024

For inspiration, check out my folder design gallery , created to help spark your creativity while featuring several styles, colors, and layouts for various industries. If sustainability is a priority, plastic folders are reusable and eco-friendly. Front The front cover offers you a blank slate to introduce your brand.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 18, 2020

Enter Kickstarter , the crowdfunding platform for bringing creative projects to life (and a USV portfolio company). A few weeks ago, Kickstarter launched Lights On , a call for projects that “sustain your cultural space, event series, creative organization, or independent business” [link].

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MAY 31, 2012

It's where we're greening roofs, trading car lanes for bike lanes, building parks on former industrial piers and putting cleantech and creative companies in former naval yards. Over the next three or four years, I hope to participate in as many of these "forward progress" kinds of startups through my fund.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

ESG embodies a company’s commitment to maintaining sustainable business practices, upholding core values, and transparently reporting non-financial performance metrics. Data from the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance highlights a staggering 605% increase in Sustainably-Themed Investing in 2020 compared to 2016.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 5, 2023

In a world where constant change and the need for sustainable solutions are more urgent than ever, young entrepreneurs emerge as the driving force behind innovation and progress — as demonstrated by the winners of EO’s 2023 Global Student Entrepreneur Awards. Young entrepreneurs are at the forefront of innovation and social impact.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Over time, I realized that my true passion lies in empowering entrepreneurs and helping them create sustainable, scalable businesses. Using analytics to understand what works and what doesn’t allows startups to optimize their marketing strategies over time, ensuring sustainable growth.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2013

Get a group of people to throw money at a creative project with no financial return? It's a way for every apartment dweller with no patch of dirt to start participating in the sustainable agriculture movement. The next big thing will seem completely unreasonable at first. Sign up to have strangers live in your house?

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In the epicenter of tech, where innovation thrives, Alex Luce bridges materials science and venture capital, carving a niche as a Partner at Creative Ventures. His advocacy for reshoring battery manufacturing to the United States echoed the national drive toward sustainability.

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JANUARY 2, 2011

This is particularly acute in New York City, where you have several industries undergoing serious disruption, a critical mass of creativity from the cross pollination of ideas, and lots of capital. In today’s world, one of the bottlenecks we have to innovation is the lack of software development talent.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 25, 2021

While profits are essential to build a sustainable business, conscious capitalism focuses on purpose beyond the profit. In turn, strong and engaged stakeholders lead to a healthy, sustainable, resilient business, creating a win-win-win proposition for all. Higher purpose.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Innovators Hernann Zabala Naoumov, 2018 YLAI Fellow, and Antonio Mendoza, 2016 YLAI Fellow, co-founded EnerGea , a social enterprise aimed at increasing energy efficiency and reducing pollution and energy consumption through sustainable technology. Hernann’s advice to network members is to “believe in what you are doing and be creative.”

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Where we’re going: Customer acquisition gets creative (on a budget). And it’s certainly not sustainable in this market; the lack of transparency from ad-tech/tech companies makes optimizing customer advertising costly and inefficient. That’s no longer the case, for reasons Andrew Chen and Cody Plofker argue here and here. Stay tuned.

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Source Link

APRIL 1, 2022

Attendees will hear success stories and gain valuable insights from national thought leaders about solutions for sustainable, equitable economic impact. webinar on strategies for growing rural communities through entrepreneurship-led economic development. SourceLink Affiliate Conversations.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

But I never thought of myself as an underdog because I knew it is easier to get those four things than what I, and every Roami team member, innately have: creativity and grit,” says King-Geovanis. The company says it started with building a sustainable business before it focused on brand, hence the rebrand from Sextant Stays to Roami.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

We were invited to participate by the Global Leaders Initiative, which aims to bring key networks together to find solutions that address the challenges of sustainable development. The collaboration produced a White Paper, Future Readiness of SMEs: Mobilizing the SME Sector to Drive Widespread Sustainability and Prosperity.

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DECEMBER 26, 2011

It has the diversity and cheaper rent necessary for great creative potential and I think you're going to see a lot of development next year of Brooklyn as its own unique, but complimentary community of innovation. We're negatively focused on the problems of specific stakeholders (not enough X.)

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Source Link

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Extra time at home allowed many people to tap into their own creativity and inner entrepreneur—not just for those who were unemployed or pursuing a change, but also those dealing with virtual work. Finally, business owners were looking for ways to sustain their business in what we quickly learned would be a very different world.”.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 12, 2025

Entrepreneurs must be creative enough to innovate, disciplined enough to stay focused, resourceful enough to do more with less, and bold enough to take calculated risks. Creativity & Innovation Thinking outside the box to develop unique products, services, or business models. Why Is an Entrepreneurial Mindset Important?

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 29, 2021

We don’t yet understand how to make nuclear reactors that generate energy with fusion in a sustainable way, although there has been a lot of exciting technological progress on fusion over the last few decades. I believe fusion is not an if, but a when. At this time, nuclear is the best way to close that gap.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 13, 2021

This goal is specific and time-bound—but it won’t yield sustained results if Airbnb doesn’t also update its hiring practices and the infrastructure that created the homogenous workforce in the first place. That knowledge will be priceless as you work to improve things in an authentic, sustainable way.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

As an industry we’re not always as good as we could be about our own “creative destruction” to create the tomorrow of venture capital. Instead he championed our investment themes into sustainability and food technologies having invested in companies like Apeel Sciences and Ynsect. So What Does All This Mean?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Juno , a proptech startup which aims to build more sustainable and affordable apartment buildings, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round. Like other players in the space, Juno of course touts an approach that it says is far more sustainable than traditional construction methods. Scherr told TechCrunch.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2016

This may even sacrifice top line in the short term, but I think these companies will build better, more sustainable businesses. You should be building something where the more people that use and absolutely love the product, the better your economics get--and the better the offering becomes.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

I have often thought that creative endeavors where one has a quick turn-around between idea and realization of one’s work as one of the more fulfilling experiences in life. During this era, from 2009–2015, most founders I knew were in it for building great & sustainable companies. There was no money train. It was 1991.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The same thing happened in the creatively skewed social graphs of Zack and Jakob at Vimeo, resulting in cool video submissions versus the random pirated mainstream sludge of early YouTube. The question is whether or not this kind of highly influenced vibe is sustainable at scale. That creates some interesting social barriers to entry.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MAY 20, 2019

I wanted to provide her with the tools and resources she needed to express her creativity and to provide for her family.”. For Rafael, that motivation is sustaining and protecting traditional Honduran culture. “If He is also the creative director of Oneblis, a digital marketing agency.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

We rise to the occasion as it stirs our creative juices. There is something about the adrenaline rush of being under time pressure that excites us and teases out our creativity. Actually, people with the “urgency addition&# thrive on the pressure. Not everybody does. I promise you'll enjoy it.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 25, 2021

Embrace creativity and uncertainty, and bring together those who may not work in your exact field to bring in new ideas. Bibi la Luz González: It is important to focus on inclusion, to have diverse representation, voices, perspectives, and issues within your main focus, and broaden your actions to intertwine them.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

While this was the Beatles last recording session, what you see in the film are four partners working together creatively and wonderfully. All of the four Beatles went on to have solo careers, but none of them produced a sustained level of work that the four of them were able to make together. And you can see that in the Beatles work.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

APRIL 27, 2023

As part of our YLAI Goes Green campaign, we asked YLAI alumni to expand on their creative solutions to address climate change and advise others wanting to enter the green economy. Akata Farms is passionate about addressing climate change, food security and sustainable agriculture issues. Thank you, Bevon! government.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 3, 2020

A way forward for humankind to liberate the heroic spirit of business and our collective entrepreneurial creativity so we can be free to solve the many challenges we face. In the summer of 2020, we will reconvene and continue that critical work. Intersecting Crises: COVID-19 and Climate. Conscious Capitalism provides that path.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

There’s a cottage industry of folks figuring out how to stack tax credits from the inflation Reduction Act to accelerate sustainable initiatives. Many climate-focused industries and technologies are so new that policymakers are still learning what they are, making education and proactive outreach essential.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

Sometimes you are creative, sometimes logical. To really enjoy the ride in the world of entrepreneurship, you need to be able to sustain yourself outside of your comfort zone and have a sense of adventure. A successful entrepreneur has to come up with innovative ideas, but also turn them into a value-creating profitable business.

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