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Day: September 26, 2018

REI OptOutside Social Media Campaign

October 18, 2018September 26, 2018 by kristina

In 2015, REI decided to close its doors on Black Friday – the biggest shopping day of the year. They still paid their employees, but they encouraged them to go outside and spend time with friends and family. They encouraged everyone else to do the same. This sparked a social media campaign and social movement … Read moreREI OptOutside Social Media Campaign

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Quotes from Growing a Business by Paul Hawken:

If you have a business idea, "try it out on friends. If they say you have a wonderful idea, you may be in trouble: an idea everyone recognizes as great has probably arrived on the scene too late. But if your friends look confused and shrug their shoulders, things are looking up."

" A ready supply of too much money in start-ups tends to replace creativity…Companies without money dream and imagine."

"...these companies survived the upheavals of the marketplace... because they had 'being' goals instead of 'doing' goals. Their business was centered on a way of interacting with the world, not on providing one specific product or service."

"Small businesses, at least entrepreneurial ones, are formed in order to address problems that money alone cannot solve."

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