Christine Haskell

92 posts
Christine is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft with several years experience in the .com industry. She recently started social venture labs, an idea incubator for those leading small mission-driven businesses or organizations looking to create relationships, share ideas and get feedback on common business practices. She is new to StartupNation, and looking to profile mission driven companies and discusses related themes.
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Do it…because it feels good.

Do it once a year. Do it once a month. Do it twice a week.   Pro Bono, I mean...what were you thinking?   Especially in this time, when things are tight for everyone, time...
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Get some…(free) education!

Recalling my earlier post about (FREE being a good price, and FREE love... I'm a big fan of "if you have a gift at something, you share it." Perhaps it's all that Catholic school (no...
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America’s Most Promising Social Entreprenuers

From Business Week: America's Most Promising Social Entreprenuers "Social entrepreneurs—enterprising individuals who apply business practices to solving societal problems such as pollution, poor nutrition, and poverty—are now 30,000 strong and growing, according to B Lab,...
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Micro is the New Macro

From Business Week: MBAs Go Micro "For years, small companies have had trouble competing with the larger firms that typically hire business school students, but that is starting to change. With the recession making a...
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The New-New Store Front

Interesting article in this Sunday’s NYTimes about vanishing store fronts. …[Store fronts signs] are artifacts of consumer culture before commercial branding and environmental signage (as signs are now called) became so self-conscious — when sign...
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Innovative Business Idea: Looking for one?

In this economy, people are selling everything. Ebay, Etsy and other such retail hubs are increasingly popular. But let’s step outside the overstuffed box of old sports cards, second hand coach bags, and retro 70s...
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Customer Love: No Love Like Free Love

FREE LOVE, or the art of giving away your stuff to consumers, is an enduring trend. Now, more than ever, FREE = GOODNESS.  From airline tickets to Wikipedia, and from laundry detergent to music downloads...
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Just to lighten things up a bit,

Reprinted from tensionbreaker.com: How the Recession Affects Sesame Street After its expenses come under increased government oversight, the number 4 pulls its sponsorship. Cookie Monster being replaced by his cousin, Ramen Noodle Monster. Elmo's World...
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What does innovation mean to you?

This idea gives "green business" a whole new meaning... Anti-Theft Lunch Bags will deter the most glib of lunchroom swappers. Slip your sandwich into one of the green-splotched decoys before placing it in the office...
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Customer Love: Listen

This example is why newspapers and TV must reinvent themselves, or die. Obama is Lincoln v2.0 Taking a page out of Lincoln’s Handbook on How To Be A Good President, Obama is everywhere in the community: at...
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Innovative Idea: Give Tours

I sign up for a lot of newsletters because I like to know what's going on, what people I used to work with are up to, and it helps spark the Idea Mill. I worked...
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Show Customer Love: Be Eco Positive

Part of a series in showing customer love... Eco Positive| When companies move from merely neutralizing and offsetting their undesirable eco-effects to actually boosting the environment by going the extra mile. London-based Ecoigo, a ‘green’...
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Friendly Advice From George Will

3 Pieces of Life Advice from George Will on this week's Roundtable Don't play poker with a man named Slim. Don't buy a Rolex from a guy out of breath. Don't take advice from someone...
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Show Customer Love: Co Donate

In a previous post (Giving is the new taking), I asked the question: What are some ways you are being kinder to your customers? The terms social responsibility is often used synonomously with charity and volunteering with good...