Word: entrepreneurism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Renfrew made a name for herself as an entrepreneur when she acquired The Wedding List, a company she turned into an innovative wedding-gift-and-registry Web-centric business that she then sold to Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia in 2001. She followed that stint with six months of volunteering in South Africa and several consulting gigs at small businesses like designer Vivienne Tam and retailer Intermix...
...with a year’s campaigning experience behind him, the 24-year-old British entrepreneur, along with running mate Adam Goldenberg ’08, has been projected as one of the election’s frontrunners from the start...
...Poss has a dirty little habit. The alternative-energy entrepreneur is fixated on trash--collecting it, that is. "The U.S. spends more than $45 billion a year to haul away garbage," Poss explains. "That's 180,000 diesel-burning trucks on our streets every day." Plus, those trucks roll, spewing pollution in their wake, whether trash cans are full or empty. As Poss puts it, "I just knew there had to be a better way." So he invented one: the solar-powered BigBelly Cordless Compaction System...
...quick fix. In its quest for a high per capita income, the society is moving forward in much the same way it handled the monkey issue-creating problems, analyzing those problems in retrospect, critiquing the possible solutions and finally learning to coexist with the problem. Then some entrepreneur sees a business opportunity: Let's bring in bigger monkeys to solve the problem of the smaller ones. The entrepreneur's income adds to the GDP, and society learns to coexist with the bigger problem. That's what India is today: brilliant entrepreneurs in a society that is content to coexist with...
Hadfield, who is a Crimson editorial editor, criticized the UC for "too many position papers, too little action." The British entrepreneur emphasized his interest in diversity, workers’ rights, and environmental sustainability...