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My Top 5 Startups for 2013 – Elaine Jung, VentureVillage Features Editor
Here Elaine, our features editor, shares her pick of startup gems for 2013.. The startups that really excite me are innovative, disruptive business models with world-changing ideas. Ideas born from passion that play close
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VentureVillage’s Top 10 video reports of 2012
From meeting footballing robots to exploring the latest tech trends and cultural issues, it’s been a bumper year for our Berlin video crew. We’ve recorded and compiled a breadth of stories and events in
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Milk the Sun – powering up Europe’s solar scene
Changing the world for the better is something all the good startups want to do, but those doing it as a business still need to turn a profit – Berlin-based online marketplace for solar
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Startup of the Week – Photocircle “Buy photos, help the world”
Social enterprise startup Photocircle.net has officially launched this week, allowing photographers to sell their worldly snaps while passing on a cut to social projects. Imagine if part of the profits made from the famous 1984 National
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VIDEO – Photocircle – Giving back with a snap
With a photo-camera in tow, a voyage across a developing country can often produce striking snaps. If it’s “hang it on the wall” worthy, those pictures can, and often are, sold to an admiring
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VIDEO – On tour through Berlin’s Social Impact Lab
Upcoming social entrepreneurs, rejoice! The Social Impact Lab may be coming to a town near you. Plans are well underway to anchor in Hamburg and Heidelberg this June, as well as Munich, Cologne and
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Thorsten Jahnke on Berlin’s Social Enterprise movement
Berlin’s social business co-working space the Social Impact Lab is set to expand across Germany and into Austria by the end of 2013. With social entrepreneurship or social business gaining traction internationally, VentureVillage went one-on-one
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VIDEO – Social Enterprise – getting to the heart of business
Merging profit motives with public responsibility, social enterprise businesses are becoming the “new heart” of industry – worldwide. Propelled by 2006 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, social business is a fairly new but
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