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Morgan  Stanley  Finds  Sustainable  Investing  Poised  for  Growth

2/27/2015

 
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"NEW YORK, Feb. 27 /CSRwire/ - Over seventy percent of active individual investors (71%) describe themselves as interested in sustainable investing, and nearly two in three (65%) believe sustainable investing will become more prevalent over the next five years, according to a new survey published today by the Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing.  The new Sustainable Signals report examines the attitudes and perceptions of individual investors towards sustainable investing and considers the broader implications for investors, corporations and governments."

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What  Every  ENTREPRENEUR  Should  Know  About  Pitching

2/26/2015

 
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Oh woe is the typical pitch deck!  General, confusing, buzzwordy.  Pascale Finette (Managing Director of Singularity University's Startup Lab, writing on Unreasonable.is), lays out, slide by slide, what to show and tell - and not.   He starts:  "Your pitch deck MUST start with a description of what it is that you're doing."  ​

AFI  Funds  Bola  Pizza  oven

2/18/2015

 
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Folks all over the state will be seeing more of those white pizza boxes with the big, red “B” on them.  Bola Pizza will be adding 15 HEB stores in Austin, San Antonio and Houston to their distribution channel.
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​Husband and wife team Christian and Jamie Bowers have been making delicious, organic, mostly-locally sourced wood fired pizzas for years now, getting their start catering and at local farmer’s markets.

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The  Pitch  Deck  Slide  that  can  make  you  look  like  a  Moron...

2/17/2015

 
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Not so good, says Paul O'Brien
Austin's Paul O'Brien says the typical "Competition" slide in a pitch deck usually essentially says "...we actually do everything!  And our competitors (those morons) are overlooking something obvious", to which he replies:  "Really?  That doesn’t even pass the sniff test."

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Slow  Money  Austin  Announces  Partnership With  Kiva  Zip

2/16/2015

 
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​AUSTIN, Texas (February 16, 2015) – Slow Money Austin announced a partnership with the Kiva Microfinance pilot program, Kiva Zip.  Slow Money has been chosen to serve as a trustee; the organization will endorse sustainable food entrepreneurs located in the Austin Food Shed, and in return, Kiva Zip will offer the entrepreneurs 0% interest loans to fund their businesses. These loans range from $1,000 to $10,000 depending on the industry, and the entrepreneurs fundraising on Kiva Zip will have access to capital from all over the world.

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BITTMAN  in  NYT:  What  is  the  Purpose  of  Society?

2/11/2015

 
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"The world of food and agriculture symbolizes most of what’s gone wrong in the United States. But because food is plentiful for most people, and the damage that conventional agriculture does isn’t readily evident to everyone  it’s important that we look deeper, beyond food, to the structure that underlies most decisions: the political economy,"  starts Mark Bittman in this incisive critique.

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do  you  love  infographics?   i  mean  do  you  really  love  infographics?

2/11/2015

 
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Who doesn't!  Here's a very fun website, Funders and Founders, that is chock-full of interesting infographics about the start-up business world and beyond.  We particularly like "Counting the People You Impact" and "Everyone Will Become an Entrepreneur".  Enjoy!
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