Via All Business Experts : Every self-help book, motivational seminar, and sales training weekend hammers the idea of goal setting into us. The reason for this is that setting a solid goal adds tremendous power to your efforts. However, we’re not here to convince you to set sales goals. You’ve come …

Via LinkedIn : Social enterprises are companies with a social mission that reinvest a portion of their profit back into their organizations… and they follow new hybrid business models that have the potential to radically change the way we think about doing business. And who are the emerging leaders at the …

Via Bloomberg : Kentucky high school history teacher Randy Wieck is on a lonely mission to discover the whereabouts of the 12 percent of each paycheck he and 74,800 other educators are putting into a state pension fund. He’s especially keen to unearth details on the $1.1 billion the badly underfunded …

Via Startup Hook : Creativity in primary and secondary education is badly lacking. Reports have shown that current widespread standardized education models have been ineffective in instilling principles such as innovation across student bodies. In fact, findings showed that ” the education system itself is a barrier to developing the creativity …

Via Entrepreneur : For high-school freshman Rachel Zietz, landing a spot on the varsity lacrosse team was a surprise. For her teammates, there was a bigger surprise: finding out that their newest member creates the practice equipment they use at home. “I tell them, ‘Yeah, that’s my company,’ and they’re like, …

Via LinkedIn : This was me and my 3 year old son at CVS the other day: (He’s pointing to a hair coloring product for women. Life-like, I know.) So I said… I humored him and we went about the rest of our day. Later on it struck me how simple …

Via LinkedIn : If you were to ask me how much money your startup should raise, I could give you a simple answer: raise no more than you need to reach product/market fit, for example, or enough to validate your business model. But this subject is too important for simple answers, …

Via Entrepreneur : Why I Built a Multi-Unit Sandwich Franchise Fresh Out of College Jeff Cohen opened his first franchise location at only 23, soon after he graduated from UCLA. Quickly, he realized that the chain he had loved since high school could also be a great business investment. So, …

Via LinkedIn : By reading this post, you’ll learn why entrepreneurs need to get a focus of interest and stick with it. You need to get a focus of interest because if you don’t, you’re going to be all over the place with your ideas, and when you’re all over the …

Via The Wall Street Journal : India Says Economic Growth Could Reach 8.5%. Projected GDP growth for fiscal year would surpass China’s India’s Finance Ministry said Friday that the country’s economic growth could accelerate to as much as 8.5% in the coming fiscal year, which could make it the world’s fastest-growing large …

Via LinkedIn : It appears that ports on the US West Coast are back in full swing after a protracted labor dispute delayed cargo worth billions of dollars and caused untold reputational damage to the companies caught in the crossfire. But the implications of this standoff between the International Longshore and …

Via Entrepreneur : In their book Start Your Own Business, the staff of Entrepreneur Media Inc. guides you through the critical steps to starting your business, then supports you in surviving the first three years as a business owner. In this edited excerpt, the authors explain the three-step process of creating …