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Inspiring Entrepreneurs: What Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has learned in his business career

The Next Web

You had a very interesting life before you became an entrepreneur (joining first the marines and later the peace corps) so can you tell us how that shaped you? The years I spent living abroad, in Swaziland for a couple of years, were certainly formative in terms of independence and being on my own. I was just in shock!

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The Many Ways to Say I Love You With A Donation To A Charity

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Maybe the love of your life is allergic to roses or maybe he or she is trying to drop a few pounds, so chocolates (even if they are fair trade chocolates ) may not fly. What about making a donation to a charity in honor the special someone in your life. Do you have a special techie in your life who works for a nonprofit?

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Creating Markets for Fair Trade Gifts: An Interview with Priya Haji of World of Good

Have Fun - Do Good

The logic that we really proposed is that, well, what really matters, the one common input, is the time of the artisan who made it; and if the artisan took two hours to make it and you paid that person a dollar, that could be a very good price. So that has been this huge, exciting progress.

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