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Seattle: City of the Future (Again)

Kauffman ID8 Nation highlights Seattle: Seattle is a center of social entrepreneurship. It’s full of companies and organizations that believe they can do well by doing good. With mentoring and financial support from older entrepreneurs Seattle’s younger entrepreneurs are discovering a new way of doing business. Learn how social entrepreneurs are making a living saving the world.   In 1962...

Meet the (Autumn 2013) Fledglings

Every session at Fledge is a bit different than the others. For the Autumn 2013 cohort, running September through November, this includes something of a staggered start. The first four fledglings nestled into the nest today: Close to Home is an marketplace for post-disaster homes. A place to go when FEMA lets you down, or for less massive disasters, such as home fires or remodels. Community...

500 Squareholders and $100,000

Community Sourced Capital has taken off! One of the first seven “fledglings” from 2012, Community Sourced Capital launched their business in earnest in January 2013, less than six months ago.  Since then, they’ve helped eight company raise over $100,000 from over 500 individual “squareholders” Congratulations on a great start! If you’ve yet had the opportunity...

Stockbox Grocers on First Hill

Stockbox Neighborhood Grocery is expanding this summer to First Hill. This store expands the Stockbox mission, began two years ago with a prototype in Delridge, and less than a year ago with the first production store in South Park.  As stated on the Stockbox blog: To our new First Hill neighbors: we are dedicated to building a store that represents the uniqueness of your community and, to do...

Demo Day, April 25th, 2013

Demo Day was Thursday, April 25th Once again the “fledglings” got up on stage and shared their visions and plans with you and the world. Tansa Clean (a.k.a. Brown Box) – “Valuing” the stream of of human waste in India Serve Smart – Preparing volunteers for effective service Kodeza – Crowdsourcing local knowledge to create local change Shift Labs –...

Kick, the “inclusive” incubator

Kick is the inclusive business incubator, here to help all entrepreneurs through the difficult path from idea to started startup.  We are here to help all the teams after the weekend entrepreneurship events, after the business plan competitions, after graduation, or any other stage of life when an entrepreneur realizes that some help could help. Kick is here for the lifestyle entrepreneurs, the...

Welcome Fledglings

The Winter 2013 program runs through April 25th Fledge, the “conscious company” incubator has invited seven new, impactful companies to come work with us within HUB Seattle, every day for 10 weeks. These seven were chosen from amongst over 60 applicants, invited due to their potential impact on the world and the strength of their teams. Plus, we’re excited to see these teams...

Community Sourced Capital is LIVE!

We’re proud to present our first “live” campaigns! For the first time ever, you can lend money to local businesses you know and love by buying Squares from Community Sourced Capital. Our first two campaigns are: Starvation Alley Farms, the first organic cranberry farm in Washington State; and Playback Sports, a recycled sporting goods store in Tacoma. So, let’s put our...

Companies of the future come with a purpose, literally

All around the world, entrepreneurs are starting companies to solve some of the world’s biggest environmental and social problems. These are the companies of the 21st Century. So why should these cutting-edge companies use ancient corporate structures? Benefit Corporations, LC3s, Social Purpose Corporations–these are the latest innovations in governing mission-focused businesses for the...

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