Values Led Startups / 89 posts found
Using competitive advantages of blindness to create opportunity
Wonderful business model from Germany. Discovering Hands creates employment opportunities for blind women using their well developed sensory skills to look for breast cancer. Higher detection rates, and turning the effects of visual impairment into a strength. CLICK HERE TO SEE ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Gang members turned tour guides
Fancy a tour through old gang territory topped off with a Mojito? Great model rehabilitates ex-gang members in Panama, with opportunities for employment or entrepreneurship. CLICK HERE TO SEE ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Book Seller With Purpose
[Value/s Led Business] Yes, we know Amazon isn’t about books. But if you ARE looking for books, try BetterWorldBooks. With each book you buy, they do 3 additional things: 1) Donates a book to someone who needs it; 2) Puts money towards a carbon offset for your purchase; 3) Donates to literacy projects. Perfect alignment. I ALWAYS look for my books here first. CLICK HERE TO SEE ORIGINAL ARTICLE
The biggest opportunity to do good while improving your business
Inspired Indie’s all about finding ways for businesses where doing the right thing by society is also better for the business. One of the biggest injustices which also leaves the biggest scope for growth for businesses, is the continuing inequality of opportunity and treatment for women at work. At a macro level, nowhere is this more true than in the pursuit of gender equality. IN THE UK, THE GAP CREATED BY GENDER INEQUALITY WILL COST US £150 BILLION IN THE NEXT 9 YEARS! Interesting reading…
Propeller Selects 31 Social Ventures for Startup Accelerator Program
There’s an acceleration in accelerators supporting socially-driven enterprises. Great to see. Here’s one in New Orleans backing 31 of them, ranging from art therapy to SAAS for scientists. CLICK HERE TO SEE ORIGINAL ARTICLE
$30.1M Funding for Startup BrightFarms to Fresher Food to Cities
Great to see $30m going to a startup delivering produce closer to where it’s grown. Greenhouses to grow food closer to where they’re sold. Fresher food, lower travel carbon footprint. Well done BrightFarms. CLICK HERE TO SEE ORIGINAL ARTICLE
P2P insurance startup Lemonade launches with charity pledge
Would you try to swindle an insurance claim if you knew you were reducing charity donations? By donating the difference between premium and claim payments to charity, Lemonade not only gives, but also incentivises against fraudulent claims. Clever. CLICK HERE TO SEE ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Teaching starting from the child rather than the curriculum
Our education system tries to shoehorn children into a curriculum. Created 200 years ago to fit children into industry, I don’t think it’s fit for purpose today. Here’s a school that tries reversing the relationship by fitting the curriculum around the child. CLICK HERE TO SEE ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Yet another green company targetted by Unilever
Unilever is looking to buy the Honest Company. Hot on the heels of its Seventh Generation organic household products company, Honest makes organic personal care products, and was co-founded by actress Jessica Alba. CLICK HERE TO SEE ORIGINAL ARTICLE
One Giant Conglomerate Is Buying Up All The Hip, Green Companies
Unilever has just bought yet another green company, Seventh Generation, which produces organic household products. Let’s hope it keeps hands-off and the drive for quarterly profits doesn’t undermine its mission. CLICK HERE TO SEE ORIGINAL ARTICLE