New Online Shop Gives Free Men's Shoes to Homeless for Every $59 Pair You Buy For Yourself
Passing by the homeless in LA every day caused a tech entrepreneur to create Brethren Shoes, to give a free pair of men's shoes every time someone buys one.
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Business Savvy 9-Year-old Sells Out of Cookies by Taking Advantage of Canada's First Cannabis Sales
As people lined up around the block for the nation's first day of recreational marijuana sales, 9-year-old Elina Childs saw an advantageous opportunity.
Starbucks Backs Young Social Entrepreneurs With Thousands in Grants
25 young people from 17 countries will receive between $5,000 and $15,000 to enhance their work as social entrepreneurs, awarded through a 2008 competition launched by Starbucks and the International Youth Foundation.
Instead of Money for Themselves, Black Men Unjustly Arrested at Starbucks Arrange Grant for City's Youth
"We thought long and hard about it and we feel like this is the best way to see that change that we want to see," said one of the men. "It's not a right-now thing that's good for right now, but I feel like we will see the true change over time."
Instead of Shutting Down Teen's Hot Dog Stand, City Helps Him Get a Permit and Start a Business
This entrepreneurial 13-year-old has been taken under the wing of the city after someone complained about his lack of permit.
67% of People Dream of Telling Their Boss 'I Quit' - But It's Not Because They Hate Their Job
Most people look forward to quitting their jobs, but it's because they are actually looking forward to something exciting, rather than escaping reality.
Man Cleans Up Brazilian Streets By Turning Discarded Tires into Cute Recycled Animal Beds
This 23-year-old artist has come up with the most adorable way to recycle discarded tires cluttering up his city streets.
Wholesome 8-Year-old Boy Becomes Top YouTube Earner, Rakes in $22 Million Simply by Rating Toys
This youngster has become one of YouTube's top earners with $22 million in annual income – and he is only eight years old.
A Free Place Social Entrepreneurs Can Live and Learn Together (Apply Now)
A program designed to support 15 social entrepreneurs with a free residence in the historic Halcyon House in Georgetown is accepting application until May 7.
College Class Builds Apps — and Fortunes
Stanford students took seriously their homework assignment in the fall of 2007: Devise an app. Get people to use it. The students ended up getting millions of users for free apps that they designed to run on Facebook. And, as advertising rolled in, some of those students started making far more money than their professors.
The UK's Top Young Entrepreneurs to Look Out For in 2012
With the sluggish British economy, it's never been more difficult for young people to get a job. In fact for many graduates and teens, finding their way into employment can often feel like an impossible challenge rather than a right of passage. Despite research that suggests a 21% unemployment rate for this age group, there are still many ambitious young people who are creatively making their way in the world. Their persistence, initiative and success in times of such economic difficultly are doubly inspiring. Here are some of the top young entrepreneurs to look out for this year and the dynamic, forward thinking companies that have seen them make their fortune.
Houston Bar Gives 100% of Profits to Charity. Period.
The Original OKRA Charity Saloon in downtown Houston operates a lot like other taverns. Booze is purchased and poured, bartenders get paid and take home tips. But the owners give all their profits away. Proceeds from OKRA's are donated to a different Houston-based organization each month. With every drink purchased, bar patrons vote on which charity is chosen from among four new nominees each month.
Ingenious Gates-Funded Machine Turns Feces Into Drinking Water
He watched the piles of feces go up the conveyer belt and drop into a large bin. A few minutes later, after a machine boiled and treated it, Bill Gates took a taste and proclaimed it, "Delicious -- as good as any I've had out of a bottle." The self-powering machine produces water and electricity (plus a little ash), and no nasty smell.
Victory in Congress: Deregulation Allows Small Businesses to Raise Money Online
The House of Representatives last week managed a landslide victory for the little guy passing the Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act by a vote of 407-18. The bill would allow entrepreneurs to crowdfund. That means they could raise money over the Internet through relatively small donations from people they don't know.
College Student Drops Out to Start Secret Cookie Service - Now He Thrives in Disguise
A UCSD grad student has traded in his lab coat for an apron and sunglasses, disguising his identity and keeping his new cookie service a secret, to avoid criticism from friends and family. Now, the passionate cookie-maker is seeing his dream pay off -- and the secret cookie service is not so secret anymore.
Couple Plans Unusual Honeymoon Taking Strangers to Breakfast Across America
This July, after an Oregon couple walk down the aisle, they will hit the open road on a unique journey from Portland, Ore., to Portland, Maine, taking a leap of faith with dozens of people they've never met. The leap? The new bride and groom will sit down to breakfast with strangers across America and select 50 of those breakfasts to highlight in a book, Breakfast with Strangers: 50 Meals across America.
Peace Corps Volunteers Use Chocolate To Lift Africans from Poverty
Africa produces 70% of the world's chocolate and 60% of the world's vanilla crop, yet the continent makes just 1% of finished chocolate bars, which leaves very little profit for the essential farming communities. Now, an innovative company started by former Peace Corps volunteers is disrupting that market spiral to make the world's best chocolate bars -- and make a difference in Madagascar.
Startup Airlines Seek to Offer 'A Better Way'
Everybody talks about the deplorable state of air travel, but some airline startups are hoping do something about it, like California Pacific Airlines founded by a 90-year-old aviation enthusiast.
Peace Corps Volunteers Use Chocolate To Lift Africans from Poverty
Africa produces 70% of the world's chocolate and 60% of the world's vanilla crop, yet the continent makes just 1% of finished chocolate bars, which leaves very little profit for the essential farming communities. Now, an innovative company started by former Peace Corps volunteers is disrupting that market spiral to make the world's best chocolate bars -- and make a difference -- in Madagascar.
College Grads' New Company Recycles Coffee Grounds into Gourmet Mushrooms You Can Grow at Home
When two college students in Oakland discovered they could grow mushrooms in used coffee grounds, they started a company to recycle the waste from local cafes. Each morning the Back to the Roots team picks up 8,000 pounds of grounds in the back of a van and are on track this year to divert 3.5 million pounds of coffee grounds from landfills.
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