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Startup Guide puts a city’s startup scene between two covers
Sissel Hansen turned the frustration of starting over in Berlin into a publishing business. Now Startup Guide sells books, maps local networks and helps cities make their case to entrepreneurs.
Helsinki Think Company makes room for the first bad idea
Free workshops, campus workspaces and small grants give academic ideas somewhere to grow. Helsinki Think Company’s real product is the chance to try entrepreneurship before betting a livelihood on it.
Uncommon Cacao
Uncommon Cacao is a specialty cacao trader that buys high-quality beans from thousands of smallholder farmers and sells them to premium and craft chocolate makers worldwide. Its signature move is radical openness: it publishes a public Transparency Report disclosing the prices paid at every step of the supply chain, and remains the only international cacao trader to do so. Founded by Emily Stone and built on the back of its Belize export operation Maya Mountain Cacao, the company is a certified B Corp and Public Benefit Corporation working to decommoditize cacao and pay farmers more.