Seattle: City of the Future (Again)

In Seattle, Startup Ecoystem
October 28, 2013
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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 Seattle hosted the World’s Fair. Today, its entrepreneurs, driven by idealism and innovation, are ready to take on the future again.

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