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Wall Street Green Summit youtube chanel, NYBC partner event and highly recommended. Special thanks to Prof Peter Fusaro: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8KZaP3WMQlJu1wdq6YCtdg

AFRICA RISE! Healthier & Stronger JOIN for the kick-off webinar preview and press event to The Big event: Africa Rise taking place this coming Friday, November 6th. See the invitation and information below. We are the United African Congress, the Give Them a Hand Foundation, the Earth Rights Institute, the International Association of Applied Psychology, Black Star News and Cool and Cozie Productions.... Your contributions will enable the purchase of mobile clinics, building district health centers, and providing medications and technology, to provide communities with access to needed health care. https://us02web.zoom.us//register/WN_efjHfWBrQ1eAk3n8WVgWZA

Careers in International Development Thursday | 19 November 2020 | 6:00 PM ____... Please join us for this UNA-NY Careers Event with guest speaker MICHAEL DAHL Chief of Recruitment United Nations Development Programme https://us02web.zoom.us//register/WN_-AbC17bZTK2MG4DBh8HqTA

[Article] This app makes presenting in Zoom more effectiveand even entertaining. A video presentation startup called Mmhmm began during the coronavirus pandemic with a simple observation about most video calls: they’re boring.... Founder Phil Libin, onetime CEO of Evernote and now the head of the digital product studio All Turtles, which developed Mmhmm, says that as he saw himself and others in the industry on video calls, he realized that presentations like startup pitches that could be vivid in person came off as dull in typical videos. If you’re just in a postage stamp, Brady [Bunch] box Zoom call, none of us knew how to interact, how to be persuasive, how to be charismatic on video, he says. Read the full article via the link below.

[Article] 3 experts on how COVID-19 changed manufacturing and supply chains around the world. We’ve always prioritized human safety and food safety at General Mills, but COVID has tested us like never before. As China started getting exposed to this and we began to understand what the government was mandating, we became early adopters here of things like temperature checks, mask use, social distancing. We had our masks and thermometers on order before the CDC said we should, ...because we’d learned enough and knew that taking these precautions wouldn’t hurt. The food industry doesn’t move all that quickly. There are swings and shifts in categories as things come in and out, but to a large extent that is predictable. What you don’t see is governments locking their people in, businesses being closed, entire countries working from home. That ends up drawing such an incredible demand shift that it’s something you just can’t plan for. People who used to get their breakfast on the go, eat their lunch at work or at schoolsuddenly they were eating at home. You don’t build for this. What used to be done on a monthly basis started happening on a daily basis. We had to build new tools, new rituals, and new processes in order to navigate what used to be a very predictable business into [one] that was changing, sometimes, by the hour. People started pantry loading with things that are shelf-stable and they could count on. Our soup business went up dramatically, as did Old El Paso, Pillsbury doughs, Betty Crocker, even Gold Medal Flour. There were months of 300% demand surges. We depleted our inventories quite quickly. On an ongoing basis, the demand surge has been 10-30% incremental business across our categories. You can’t build that much extra capacity. So the first thing we did was simplify. We used to stock 90 SKUs of Progresso Soups. We looked at it and said, We could be more efficient, make more cases per day, feed more people if we did only 50 SKUs. We simplified our portfolio, and that allowed them to ramp up their production accordingly. For the first three months of the pandemic in the U.S., we made 10-15% more cases in our manufacturing plants than we would have pre-pandemic. Over time, we had to bring on extra capacity, because you don’t build supply chains to spin that way in the food businessit’s not like 30% more people will suddenly join the population. Read the full article below.

[Article] Coyuchi is taking sustainable bedding up a notch with this full-circle, recycled blanket. If the state of the planet is keeping you up at night, you might want to take a look at a new blanket from Coyuchi, a sustainable home brand based in San Francisco. It just launched the Full Circle Recycled Cotton Blanket and Throw. It looks and feels like any other blanket in the Coyuchi collection, with a heather gray color that matches the brand’s natural aestheticbut unlik...e any other blanket on the market, it is made from 52% recycled cotton that Coyuchi has reclaimed from customers, along with 48% organically grown cotton. The world of textileswhich encompasses fashion and home goodsis notoriously bad for the environment. Cotton, for instance, is a water-intensive crop that is typically sprayed with pesticides, then dyed with harsh chemicals before it’s turned into products. Since it launched in 1991, Coyuchi has been working to find more sustainable alternatives to the status quo; it uses only organically grown cotton, for instance, and nontoxic dyeing techniques. But an even more eco-friendly approach is to use materials that already existsuch as old blankets rather than create raw materials from scratch. Coyuchi has spent years turning this vision into reality, and the blanket is the first fruit of this labor. By using recycled cotton, this blanket saves the equivalent of 3,366 days’ worth of water, 22 miles of driving emissions, and 147 square feet of pesticides, compared to a traditional cotton blanket. Read the full article at the link below.

[Article] When to know you should walk away from a business opportunity. Companies large and small have pivoted over the past several months, finding new products and services that work in a pandemic-ridden world. And while some of these solutions and offerings may stick, others won’t last in the long term. But the question is: How do you know the difference? And when is it time to pull the plug on something you’ve poured time, money, and energy into?... I learned the answers the hard way. A few years ago, I was running my first startup, which offered writing and citation tools for students. After some initial success, schools began asking for an enterprise version of the platform with features that would allow them to collaborate with students. The opportunity to sell to large organizations, not college kids on a budget? My cofounder and I were thrilled. We built the new products the schools were seeking, and we brought on sales, customer support, and training teams to support them. Pretty quickly, we realized that our eyes may have been bigger than our stomachs. While customers did want the product, revenue wasn’t anywhere near enough to support the staff and operations. That’s okay, we thought. Lots of businesses start out with losses. You can probably guess where this is headed. Three years later, we were in exactly the same boat: running a business that was not only unprofitableit was hemorrhaging cash. Complicating matters was the fact that half of our employees were working on this product. What would it mean for our culture if we shut it down? Read the full article via the link below

Real Estate Investment Lesson, recommended video: How to Understand Infinite Return through an Example Deal https://www.youtube.com/watch

This Israeli startup makes milk (& therefore all dairy products) from microbes. All milk, no cows: https://www.re-milk.com/

Fascinating 11y old video by Jeff Bezos about the humble beginnings of Amazon https://youtu.be/-hxX_Q5CnaA

Masters don't fall from the skies, you have to work hard to become one. Blue collar millionaire success story, https://youtu.be/fO15fGQZ-WQ hustle hard, never give up, you can do this!

From Punjab to New York and from broke to billionaire. The incredible success story of Harry Singh https://youtu.be/PgF5FG91s-g