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...Traditional activism revolves around conflict," says Schulkin, 28, a San Francisco-based activist turned entrepreneur. "Boycotting, protesting, lawsuits - it's about going into attack mode," says the former Googler and onetime game developer. "What's unique about a Carrotmob is that there are no enemies." The focus is on positive cooperation, using the power of the casual consumer to help save the planet. (See pictures of a grocery-store auction...
After 15 years as a high-tech entrepreneur and a brief stint at the Harvard Kennedy School studying environmental policy, Bill M. Haney ’84-’86 decided to start making movies. “I didn’t go to school for it, didn’t study it. I just found people who were thoughtful and who knew a lot about film and I listened to them,” Haney says. 13 movies later, the writer/producer’s new feature film, “American Violet,” combines...
...request, Stiles explained that Vanderbilt led an exciting life but one for his personal benefit. According to the author, “his life played out in an ever going stage against suppressive opponents.” Stiles said he believes that Vanderbilt is an ideal entrepreneur and that an intense research of his personal life reveals a fulfillment of the American dream, a real rags to riches story. “That personal side is something I really tried to intertwine into the story so we could try to build a portrait of this individual filling out the American...
...Alan Soh, a thirtysomething entrepreneur who runs his own six-person interior design firm, says his firm is coping too despite being closely tied to the recession-wracked construction industry. By temporarily switching his focus to aging buildings, where the volume is lower and margins are thinner, "I've managed to keep our business going," he says. Soh is guardedly optimistic about the future. "There are eight to nine thousand new [apartment] units being finished off this year and they're all going to need lighting fixtures and painting work," he says, which is one reason why he hasn?...
...across all its language programs. This technique downplays the cultural idiosyncrasies of each specific language. "They just throw it out there at the student," says Mark Kaiser, associate director of the Berkeley Language Center. "They fail to present language as a representation of that language's culture." Author and entrepreneur Tim Ferriss, a regular language acquisition blogger who has become fluent in Spanish, German, Chinese and Japanese, is quick to credit Rosetta Stone for engaging more people in language learning. However, Ferriss argues that by shunning grammar and exercises leveraging one's native language, Rosetta Stone slows the learning process...