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     Mission Driven and Purpose Capital Directory—USA
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Directories, Female Founders, Purpose
    Posted November 14, 2023

    Mission Driven and Purpose Capital Directory—USA

    Mission Driven and Purpose Capital Directory—USA: Seed and venture capital funds all have very particular criteria for investment in new and young ventures. Today, the fastest growing special [...]

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     Directory of Funding for Female Founders—USA
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Directories, Female Founders
    Posted November 6, 2023

    Directory of Funding for Female Founders—USA

    Funding for Female Founders: According to Pitch Book, venture capital funding overall has surged in recent years, but the numbers haven’t leapt forward for female founders at the same pace. [...]

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    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Entrepreneurship, Female Founders, Purpose
    Posted November 3, 2023

    Practice Makes Purpose

    Practice Makes Purpose: The purpose driven entrepreneur is responsible for the venture’s strategy and behavior. Hence practice delivers the startup’s purpose. Passionate entrepreneurs take [...]

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    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Entrepreneurship, Insights, Purpose, Stakeholder Capitalism
    Posted September 23, 2023

    Startup Purpose

    Startup Purpose—benefit all stakeholders. Selfish startups don’t survive. Join the growing numbers of entrepreneurs who embrace stakeholder capitalism, rather than shareholder capitalism. [...]

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    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Insights, Purpose, Reflections, Stakeholder Capitalism
    Posted August 23, 2023

    Strategy and Interdependence

    Strategy and Interdependence We are coexistent; we can achieve nothing on our own; we are all inter-dependent. We are encouraged to be independent from an early age, even while being coexistent [...]

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     Coworking for Entrepreneurs: 12 Benefits
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Entrepreneurship, Insights
    Posted August 16, 2023

    Coworking for Entrepreneurs: 12 Benefits

    Coworking for Entrepreneurs: 12 Benefits—Community, Contacts & Cost For the creators of new ventures, the availability of a coworking space provides a strong support to the tough and [...]

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     Coworking Directory—USA
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Directories
    Posted August 11, 2023

    Coworking Directory—USA

    Venture Founders Coworking Directory—USA: New startups find that shared work spaces are a huge improvement over working from home, an internet café, or committing too early to their own office [...]

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     Startup Consciously
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Entrepreneurship, Insights, Purpose, Reflections, Strategy
    Posted March 18, 2023

    Startup Consciously

    Startup Consciously: Startup consciously and brainstorm beyond business. Founders face knotty decisions personally, as well on the project itself.  There are many misconceptions about [...]

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     Purpose Driven Startups Challenge Accepted Wisdom
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Entrepreneurship, Purpose, Reflections, Stakeholder Capitalism, Strategy
    Posted January 31, 2023

    Purpose Driven Startups Challenge Accepted Wisdom

    Purpose Driven Startups Challenge Accepted Wisdom, just as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, led her to exclaim, “Curiouser and curiouser!”. She explored the world conjured up [...]

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     Startup Books—for Purpose Driven Entrepreneurs
    By Will Keyser
    In Purpose, Startup Resources
    Posted January 22, 2023

    Startup Books—for Purpose Driven Entrepreneurs

    Startup Books can be a boon for business founders. Startup books can be inspirational, informational and/or huge time savers. Chances are high that you are deeply into your product that is going [...]

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     Make Meaning Method
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Optimizing, Purpose, Tools
    Posted November 20, 2022

    Make Meaning Method

    Make Meaning Method: A way to help founders go beyond establishing business purpose, to make meaning through products and behavior. “Meaning is making the world a better place,” says [...]

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     Entrepreneur Anxiety
    By Will Keyser
    In Entrepreneurship, Insights
    Posted November 17, 2022

    Entrepreneur Anxiety

    Entrepreneur anxiety: Almost every founder has some anxieties, if not all, of these 20 challenges, each of which has to be confronted and dealt with positively. They can be transformed to [...]

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     Startup to Flourish
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Entrepreneurship, Reflections, Strategy
    Posted November 15, 2022

    Startup to Flourish

    Startup to Flourish—between divisive excess wealth and unjust extreme poverty. Flourishing involves commonwealth, built on tacit agreement of the people for the common good. New ventures are [...]

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     Customer Respect
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Insights, Marketing
    Posted October 31, 2022

    Customer Respect

    Customer Respect: “Due to a Higher Than Usual Call Volume…” How many times have you heard this recorded voice message when trying to contact a customer support line? I am almost [...]

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     Benefit Entrepreneur
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Purpose, Reflections, Stakeholder Capitalism
    Posted October 21, 2022

    Benefit Entrepreneur

    Benefit Entrepreneur: Greed, hatred and delusion are characteristics inimical to successful startup. And no, this reflection is neither a polemic on business, nor about foolish entrepreneurs. It [...]

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     Startup Spirit
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Entrepreneurship, Female Founders, Reflections
    Posted October 18, 2022

    Startup Spirit

    Startup Spirit: The heart of a start lies within the entrepreneur. Reading novels is not normally considered the best way to learn about new venture creation. BUT I recommend two novels for [...]

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     PEST Analysis
    By Will Keyser
    In Analyzing, Tools
    Posted September 20, 2022

    PEST Analysis

    PEST Analysis: involves the analysis of four external factors that may impact your business: Political, Economic, Social and Technological. It should not be confused with a SWOT Analysis, that [...]

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     Co-opetition
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Entrepreneurship, Insights, Leadership, Marketing, Reflections, Stakeholder Capitalism, Strategy
    Posted September 15, 2022

    Co-opetition

    Co-opetition: Co-opetition is an increasing popular behavior among both multinationals and entrepreneurial businesses alike. It is a function of competing companies that also cooperate for [...]

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     Sailing to Startup Success
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Entrepreneurship, Female Founders, Insights, Reflections
    Posted September 14, 2022

    Sailing to Startup Success

    Sailing to Startup Success: keep your new venture on an even keel. I used to be a dinghy sailor and I can tell you that sailing requires many of the skills that an entrepreneur needs. First of [...]

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     Bootstrap Startup Finance
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Finanace, Insights
    Posted August 1, 2022

    Bootstrap Startup Finance

    Bootstrap Startup Finance is a craft that is very widely used in the creation of new ventures. In tough economic times it can be a matter of survival. For many entrepreneurs, it is a natural [...]

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     Corporate Venture Capital Directory—USA
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Directories
    Posted July 25, 2022

    Corporate Venture Capital Directory—USA

    Corporate Venture Capital Directory—USA: The Corporate Venture Capital Directory—USA lists most of the big corporate investors. Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) involves large firms taking an [...]

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     Grassroots Startup Barriers
    By Will Keyser
    In Entrepreneurship, Insights, Outside Help
    Posted July 21, 2022

    Grassroots Startup Barriers

    Grassroots Startup Barriers: Determined rural entrepreneurs will make it, whatever barriers stand in their way. More than 68 per cent of people in the US think it’s easy to start a business [...]

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     Dangers of Startup Mentors
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Insights, Outside Help, People
    Posted July 11, 2022

    Dangers of Startup Mentors

    Dangers of Startup Mentors: I was a startup mentor for many years. So, why would I warn entrepreneurs about the dangers of using mentors? My warnings are based on my understanding of how such [...]

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     Being an Entrepreneur
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Entrepreneurship, Insights, Reflections
    Posted July 8, 2022

    Being an Entrepreneur

    Being an entrepreneur is a life that has some special needs. It is not for everybody, . There are all kinds of advice available, including on Venture Founders. Even though there are many courses [...]

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     Small Profits and Quick Returns
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Finanace, Insights
    Posted July 6, 2022

    Small Profits and Quick Returns

    Small Profits and Quick Returns (SPQR): Think as big as a Roman Emperor and start with small steps towards building your own empire. The reason for a big vision is to have clarity of purpose. The [...]

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     Founders Affinity Diagram
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Optimizing, Tools
    Posted July 3, 2022

    Founders Affinity Diagram

    Founders Affinity Diagram: All entrepreneurs that I know are messy thinkers—for good reason. Things happen and you want to act quickly, not least because your data is scrappy and incomplete. You [...]

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     Founders Stay Afloat DESCRIPTION
    By Will Keyser
    In
    Posted July 1, 2022

    Founders Stay Afloat DESCRIPTION

    Track the Startup: this handbook helps founders keep track of the new business and avoid surprises, thus mitigating risk. Founders Keep Afloat: by tracking 25 vital facts and figures will show [...]

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     Founders Are Storytellers Description
    By Will Keyser
    In
    Posted July 1, 2022

    Founders Are Storytellers Description

    Startup Storytelling: startup storytelling is the most effective form of communication available to the entrepreneur. Startup storytelling enables you to make ‘me’ into ‘we’: to achieve [...]

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     Buddhist Economics
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Entrepreneurship, Purpose, Reflections
    Posted June 29, 2022

    Buddhist Economics

    Buddhist Economics: is giving people a chance to use and develop their skills; enabling them to overcome their self-centeredness, joining with others in a common task; creating the goods and [...]

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     Founders Are Storytellers
    By Will Keyser
    In
    Posted June 28, 2022

    Founders Are Storytellers

    Startup Storytelling: startup storytelling is the most effective form of communication available to the entrepreneur. Startup storytelling enables you to make ‘me’ into ‘we’: to achieve [...]

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     Entrepreneur Perception & Intuition
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Entrepreneurship, Insights
    Posted June 28, 2022

    Entrepreneur Perception & Intuition

    Entrepreneur Perception & Intuition: Clearly, successful entrepreneurs see things that others do not. Not surprisingly we tend to have differing perceptions of things, but the key to a [...]

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     Breakeven Analysis for Entrepreneurs
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Controlling, Tools
    Posted June 27, 2022

    Breakeven Analysis for Entrepreneurs

    Breakeven analysis for entrepreneurs sounds very dry and like hard work for the founder who’s in love with her idea. But I found it one of the most useful bits of financial calculation, [...]

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     Maker and Hacker Spaces Directory—USA
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Directories
    Posted June 26, 2022

    Maker and Hacker Spaces Directory—USA

    Maker and Hacker Spaces Directory USA: There are more than 150 entries in the Maker and Hacker Spaces Directory USA, which has been updated and improved in summer 2022. Please write to [...]

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     Startup Founders Firepower
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Strategy
    Posted June 10, 2022

    Startup Founders Firepower

    Startup Founders Firepower: In 2022, the United States has more guns than people, but only 4 in 10 adults live in households with a gun, that’s 49 million of America’s 122 million households. The [...]

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     FOUNDERS STAY AFLOAT
    By Will Keyser
    In
    Posted June 10, 2022

    FOUNDERS STAY AFLOAT

    Track the Startup: this handbook helps founders keep track of the new business and avoid surprises, thus mitigating risk. Founders Keep Afloat: by tracking 25 vital facts and figures will show [...]

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     Community Round: Let Thousands Invest in Your Startup
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Entrepreneurship, Finanace
    Posted May 17, 2022

    Community Round: Let Thousands Invest in Your Startup

    Let Thousands Invest in Your Startup: Use a Community Round, which lets thousands of your startup’s customers, users, and fans invest alongside VCs and angel investors. You may feel anxious [...]

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     Fast or Firm Growth
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Entrepreneurship, Insights, Strategy
    Posted May 11, 2022

    Fast or Firm Growth

    Fast or Firm Growth: Most of the time founders cannot simply make a choice between a startup’s fast or firm growth, when setting the priorities of new venture development. They get the [...]

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     Startup Passion and Delight
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Entrepreneurship
    Posted May 9, 2022

    Startup Passion and Delight

    Startup Passion and Delight: Ricky D has a passion and takes delight in its consequences. He’s a solopreneur, who has been shining shoes most of his life, but his ideas hardened into a [...]

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     Startups Change the World
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Reflections
    Posted April 26, 2022

    Startups Change the World

    Startups Change the World: Social impact is now core to how entrepreneurs set their business purpose and assess business performance. Entrepreneurial success has been primarily determined by [...]

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     Entrepreneurial Mindfulness
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Entrepreneurship, People, Purpose, Reflections
    Posted April 25, 2022

    Entrepreneurial Mindfulness

    Entrepreneurial Mindfulness: These two words are not often seen together. However, business schools that teach a startup course would do mankind a service to have them as a key component of their [...]

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     Small Town Startup
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Entrepreneurship, Finanace, Insights, Strategy
    Posted March 26, 2022

    Small Town Startup

    Small town startup: People in rural communities and small towns across America are just as likely to be entrepreneurs as the geeks of Silicon Valley, or the app developers of Austin, Texas. There [...]

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     Public Contracts for Small Business
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Insights, Marketing
    Posted March 25, 2022

    Public Contracts for Small Business

    Public Contracts for Small Business: It is amazing how few startups think about going after business from Federal Government, States, Cities and other public entities. All kinds of bodies put out [...]

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     Purpose Driven Startup Coherence
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Stakeholder Capitalism, Strategy
    Posted March 22, 2022

    Purpose Driven Startup Coherence

    Purpose Driven Startup Coherence: purpose driven startups are sometimes exposed to criticism from skeptics, doubting their integrity. If you have a strong commitment of purpose to your [...]

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     Nearsourcing
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Outside Help
    Posted March 12, 2022

    Nearsourcing

    Nearsourcing: Nearsourcing is a way of outsourcing that brings subcontracted services nearer to the client company. Nearer can be in terms of distance, time, language, or culture. Nearsourcing [...]

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     Purpose Driven Tecopreneur
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Entrepreneurship, Strategy
    Posted February 21, 2022

    Purpose Driven Tecopreneur

    Purpose Driven Tecopreneur: A tecopreneur (tec + eco) is how I describe technically/scientifically knowledgeable entrepreneurs, who see the need for new ventures for creative and innovative ways [...]

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     Surprising Countries for Entrepreneurs
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Entrepreneurship, Insights, Stakeholder Capitalism, Strategy
    Posted February 9, 2022

    Surprising Countries for Entrepreneurs

    Surprising Countries for Entrepreneurs Costa Rica and Botswana In Central America & Sub-Saharan Africa full of inspiration and opportunity   Surprising Countries for Entrepreneurs: Costa [...]

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     Systemic Social Enterprise
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Purpose, Reflections, Stakeholder Capitalism
    Posted February 6, 2022

    Systemic Social Enterprise

    Systemic Social Enterprise: Social enterprise is a term in common use for many types of venture that “address a basic unmet need or solve a social problem through a market-driven approach”. That [...]

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     Flourish Honorably
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Purpose
    Posted February 5, 2022

    Flourish Honorably

    Flourish Honorably: To flourish honorably is a choice. It does not just happen, but it can be ignored. Founded as FaceMash nearly 20 years ago Facebook (now Meta) is a company that fulfills its [...]

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     Are CEOs Worth 351 Times the Median Pay?
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Insights, Leadership, Strategy
    Posted December 10, 2021

    Are CEOs Worth 351 Times the Median Pay?

    Are CEOs worth 351 times the median pay? American CEOs made 351 times more than a typical worker in 2020, but in 1965 it was only 15 to one. Was life miserable back then? It’s not as though we [...]

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     Equity Crowdfunding Directory—USA
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Directories
    Posted November 23, 2021

    Equity Crowdfunding Directory—USA

    Equity Crowdfunding Directory—USA: Equity-based crowdfunding allows people to invest in an early-stage, private company (a company that is not listed on any stock exchange) in exchange for equity [...]

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     Equity Crowdfunding from Friends and Family
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Entrepreneurship, Finanace
    Posted June 29, 2021

    Equity Crowdfunding from Friends and Family

    Equity Crowdfunding from Friends and Family: per this Founder Institute blog, “a Friends and Family round typically results in anywhere from $10,000 to $150,000 in funding that allows a startup [...]

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     Funding the Benefit Sector
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Finanace, Insights, People, Purpose
    Posted June 24, 2021

    Funding the Benefit Sector

    Funding the Benefit Sector: The Benefit Sector is emerging to fill a gap in the ability of the three traditional sectors to produce balanced benefits for society as a whole1. Social (nonprofit) [...]

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     Startup Citizenship
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Entrepreneurship, People, Reflections, Stakeholder Capitalism, Strategy
    Posted June 23, 2021

    Startup Citizenship

    Startup Citizenship: Entrepreneurs have plenty of concerns other than the social impact of their new venture. From Day One of the business, on the other hand, their new business will particularly [...]

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     Entrepreneurs Are Builders
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Entrepreneurship, Reflections
    Posted June 19, 2021

    Entrepreneurs Are Builders

    Entrepreneurs Are Builders: The word ‘entrepreneur’ is derived from the French verb, entreprendre—to undertake in English. So, an entrepreneur is someone who undertakes things, but in English, we [...]

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     Small Entrepreneurs Have Global Impact
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Entrepreneurship, Reflections
    Posted June 1, 2021

    Small Entrepreneurs Have Global Impact

    Small Entrepreneurs Have Global Impact: If you are Don Miguel, of Fincas Familia Castro, a small family coffee plantation and roasters, in San Pedro de Poàs, about an hour north of San José, the [...]

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     Marketing for Purpose and Profit
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Deciding, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Planning, Purpose
    Posted May 17, 2021

    Marketing for Purpose and Profit

    Marketing for Purpose and Profit: Most startups focus their marketing plans on survival and growth—for good reason. Founders believe passionately in their product and care for their customers. [...]

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     Stakeholder Business Thrives
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Insights, Stakeholder Capitalism, Strategy
    Posted May 13, 2021

    Stakeholder Business Thrives

    Stakeholder Business Thrives: Communities depend on willing parties enabling them to thrive or causing them to decay. This is true for both democratic or despotic systems. The parties can use [...]

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     Burn the Business Plan
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Insights, People
    Posted May 9, 2021

    Burn the Business Plan

    Burn the Business Plan: The title is arresting and has a lot of truth. I am a retired MBA teacher of new venture creation and many of my students produced business plans. For me though a business [...]

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     Business Incubator and Accelerator Directory—USA
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Directories
    Posted April 23, 2021

    Business Incubator and Accelerator Directory—USA

    Business Incubator and Accelerator Directory—USA: According to Carl Schramm, there were 1,600 business incubators and accelerators in the US in 2016. The Business Incubator and Accelerator [...]

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     Stakeholder Strategy Evaluation Tool
    By Will Keyser
    In Analyzing, Benefit Venture Blog, Planning, Purpose
    Posted April 4, 2021

    Stakeholder Strategy Evaluation Tool

    The Stakeholder Strategy Evaluation Tool facilitates the challenging planning process for purpose-driven startups and entrepreneurs who want their new ventures to contribute to a better world. A [...]

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     Perception, Purpose and Persistence
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Entrepreneurship, Insights, Stakeholder Capitalism
    Posted April 2, 2021

    Perception, Purpose and Persistence

    Perception, Purpose and Persistence: a model for purpose-driven startups Safwan Shah and PayActiv, the company he founded in 2012, are a model for purpose-driven startups today, demonstrating [...]

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     Sales Funnel
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Controlling, Tools
    Posted March 18, 2021

    Sales Funnel

    Sales Funnel: simply a way to think about all the steps in the sales process and to be able to log them so that you can avoid a sudden dip in sales. If the sales funnel is not topped up at every [...]

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     Sources of Startup Finance
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Finanace, Insights
    Posted March 6, 2021

    Sources of Startup Finance

    Sources of Startup Finance: creating a new venture is going to require money. The sources of money are almost endless. The successful entrepreneur will be financially ingenious about finding ways [...]

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     Sustainability Benefits Your Startup and the World
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Entrepreneurship, Insights
    Posted January 29, 2021

    Sustainability Benefits Your Startup and the World

    Purpose-driven Ventures Thrive Sustainability benefits your startup and the world. Purpose-driven ventures thrive, creating both shared value and profits. Successful founders set sustainable [...]

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     Purpose of the Venture
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Reflections, Stakeholder Capitalism
    Posted January 27, 2021

    Purpose of the Venture

    Purpose of the Venture:  David Hieatt, co-founder six years ago of Hiut Denim Company, the UK fashion jeans manufacturer with his wife, Clare, suggests that the question a new entrepreneur must [...]

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     New Business Normal
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Deciding, Leadership, Reflections, Stakeholder Capitalism
    Posted January 23, 2021

    New Business Normal

    New Business Normal: For health reasons, most non-essential businesses closed in order to diminish the spread of Covid 19, often at the request of government. As forecasts of the healthcare [...]

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     Remaking Capitalism
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Entrepreneurship, Purpose, Reflections, Stakeholder Capitalism, Strategy
    Posted January 23, 2021

    Remaking Capitalism

    Remaking Capitalism: The interdependence of business has not traditionally been part of business vernacular. However now, especially in post pandemic society, it is an imperative word for the [...]

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     Balanced Entrepreneurs Succeed
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Entrepreneurship, Insights, Reflections
    Posted January 11, 2021

    Balanced Entrepreneurs Succeed

    Balanced entrepreneurs succeed in the new economy. While there’s no evidence that unbalanced entrepreneurs fail, my observation is that entrepreneurs who succeed, naturally strive, work [...]

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     Connection, Trust, and Love
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Reflections, Stakeholder Capitalism
    Posted January 2, 2021

    Connection, Trust, and Love

    Connection, Trust, and Love in the New Economy1: The generally accepted aim of a business venture is to maximize financial gain for its owners. On the other hand, the aim of a nonprofit [...]

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     Founders—Pause for Breath!
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Reflections
    Posted October 18, 2020

    Founders—Pause for Breath!

    Founders—Pause for Breath! Founders often forget they’re breathing, because they are so busy making things happen. This is true for other high pressure occupations, too. That is one of the [...]

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     Mindful Work
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Purpose, Reflections
    Posted October 17, 2020

    Mindful Work

    Mindful Work: A growing number of leading businesspeople openly meditate. They may have been meditators for a long time, but now they are not shy about saying that they meditate. The late Steve [...]

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     Early Stage Funding
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Entrepreneurship, Finanace, Insights
    Posted May 24, 2020

    Early Stage Funding

    Early Stage Funding: Most startups are not highly capitalized. Of course it varies by sector. You are unlikely to find airline startups with hundreds of thousands dollars in startup funds. On the [...]

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     Purposeful Startup
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Entrepreneurship, Strategy
    Posted April 3, 2020

    Purposeful Startup

    Purposeful Startup: David Shahan, is the founder of SunState Laboratories, based in Broomfield, Colorado, having previously worked with Jani-King, a company with 9,000 franchisees offering [...]

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     Airline Share Buybacks
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Finanace, Purpose, Reflections
    Posted March 27, 2020

    Airline Share Buybacks

    Airline Share Buybacks:  The US airline industry is seeking $50 billion from the Government—half in grants and half in loans—to compensate for the effects of the Covid 19 pandemic and its [...]

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     Botswana Women’s Coworking Space
    By Will Keyser
    In Entrepreneurship, Female Founders, Insights
    Posted March 4, 2020

    Botswana Women’s Coworking Space

    Botswana Women’s Coworking Space: The first coworking space for women has been opened in Gaborone, Botswana’s capital, by The Institute of Entrepreneurial Development (IED). Bonang [...]

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     Equity Crowdfunding for Purposeful Startups
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Entrepreneurship, Finanace, Purpose
    Posted February 21, 2020

    Equity Crowdfunding for Purposeful Startups

    Equity Crowdfunding for Purposeful Startups: Wefunder is simply the best way to raise capital from people who share your intent to change the world for the better, and with whom you want to build [...]

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     Purpose and Profit Framework
    By Will Keyser
    In Deciding, Planning, Tools
    Posted February 18, 2020

    Purpose and Profit Framework

    Purpose and Profit Framework: Today, it is finally safe to say that collective business wisdom accords purpose and profit virtually the same weight of importance in planning and leading a [...]

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     Profits and Purpose
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Entrepreneurship, Insights, Purpose, Strategy
    Posted February 12, 2020

    Profits and Purpose

    Profits and Purpose: It is in the founder’s interest to start the business knowing that we are all interrelated and interdependent. That is quite easy to recognize, but hard to act on. [...]

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     Family Offices and Venture Capital
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Finanace
    Posted February 1, 2020

    Family Offices and Venture Capital

    Missed Opportunity for Startup Funding Family Offices and Venture Capital: Founders of new ventures are frequently ignorant about an excellent source of equity investment: family offices. With [...]

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     Company and Community
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Purpose, Reflections, Stakeholder Capitalism
    Posted January 5, 2020

    Company and Community

    Company and Community: The business and community surrounding it are in a symbiotic relationship, whether desired or ignored. At the negative end of the spectrum, the inter-relation is easily [...]

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     Say the Customer’s Name
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Insights, Leadership, People
    Posted January 4, 2020

    Say the Customer’s Name

    Say the Customer’s Name: “Hello My Keyser, said Pricilla. Nothing very extraordinary about that, but Matt greets me that way, too. Both are Pharmacy Technicians at my local Walgreens, [...]

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     Opportunities for Purposeful Startups
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Entrepreneurship, Insights, Leadership
    Posted December 3, 2019

    Opportunities for Purposeful Startups

    Opportunities for Purposeful Startups: there are many areas of opportunity for new ventures to address critical social issues, either directly or indirectly. Startups cannot ignore injustice [...]

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     Side Business to Startup
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Entrepreneurship, Insights
    Posted November 19, 2019

    Side Business to Startup

    Side Business to Startup: About 57 million Americans have a side business, in addition to their regular paid employment. That amounts to nearly half of American full time workers who have a side [...]

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     Successful Startup Behaviors Match Purpose
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Entrepreneurship, Insights, People, Purpose
    Posted November 11, 2019

    Successful Startup Behaviors Match Purpose

    Founders Can Learn From Corporate Deceit*: Founders can learn more from corporate mistakes than the things they appear to be doing successfully. The big boys often say one thing and do another. [...]

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     Blooming Beauty Business
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Insights, Strategy
    Posted November 2, 2019

    Blooming Beauty Business

    Blooming Beauty Business: The cosmetics and toiletries sector is about improving the appearance and health of the body and is in a period of significant growth in sales and new products, [...]

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     Mailbox Storyboard Startup
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Entrepreneurship, Insights
    Posted October 25, 2019

    Mailbox Storyboard Startup

    Mailbox Storyboard Startup: a new personal service has been born in Houston, Texas to give stories to friends, relatives and colleagues to delight them by receiving hand drawn greetings through [...]

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     Startups Build a Better World
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Entrepreneurship, Insights
    Posted July 13, 2019

    Startups Build a Better World

    Startups Build a Better World: New ventures started with an international dimension are likely to prosper, because they will be sensitive to a wide variety of options. Those who start a business [...]

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     Startup Strategy
    By Will Keyser
    In Benefit Venture Blog, Strategy
    Posted April 17, 2019

    Startup Strategy

    Startup Strategy is a subject much written about. Many business school professors and strategy consultants like Bain, BCG and McKinsey have built their reputations based on their own models of [...]