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About Christine Haskell

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.

Posts by Christine Haskell

• Small Business Profile: Lead411
• Small Business Profile: Guideposts.com
• Small Business Profile: Night Helper Watch
• Small Business Profile: Crossing Gaps
• Small Business Profile: Visible Logic
• Buy One, Give One
• Small Business Profile: OutspokenMedia.com
• Small Business Profile: Padosa.com
• Small Business Profile: Heinz Marketing
• Presidential Branding
• To Squeeze Or Not To Squeeze…
• Partner: Beat The Economy Together
• Incorporating Mini Movements Into Your Business Model
• Diversify Your Revenue Streams: Spin What You Got
• All Marketing Is Local
• Creative Capitalism: one for one, from day one
• Pick Good Influences For Your Advisory Board
• What three independent businesses would you miss if they disappeared?
• Let ME help YOU to Shine…
• We’re learning that free is a good price.
• Be Clear. Be Brief. But come back…often.
• Innovative Idea: Dead Roses For Those You…Liked
• Do it…because it feels good.
• Get some…(free) education!
• America’s Most Promising Social Entreprenuers
• Micro is the New Macro
• Twaikus can hurt your personal brand.
• The New-New Store Front
• Innovative Business Idea: Looking for one?
• Experience Businesses: Sarah’s Smash Shack
• Innovative Idea: Back to those basic experiences
• Customer Love: No Love Like Free Love
• Just to lighten things up a bit,
• What does innovation mean to you?
• Customer Love: Listen
• Innovative Idea: Give Tours
• Innovative Idea: Big Companies Get Creative, Are You?
• Show Customer Love: Be Eco Positive
• Friendly Advice From George Will
• Show Customer Love: Co Donate
• Espresso Shot Insights: Innovative ideas for home businesses
• Espresso Shot Insight: More granny businesses
• Esspresso Shot Insight: Get Creative With Your Services
• Giving is the new taking….
• Creative Business Model: Knitting Grannies
• And…We’re Back
• Con-Post: Prisons focus on greening too
• Being Green, one element at a time…
• Hay Hotels…Anyone?
• Do you measure “the goods?”
• Ant or Grasshopper?
• Hey, Green Business, is regulation a good idea?
• Privatizing profits and socializing losses gets you
• Bookshelf: Where Have All The Leaders Gone?
• Book Shelf: Peter Drucker’s Managing Oneself
• Getting Back To Basics: Lessons From My Interviews
• Getting On The List
• Buzz Term: Sustainability
• What story are you telling?
• Common Obstacles: Doing It (all) Yourself
• Common Obstacles: Money Now v Later
• Bookshelf: The Victorian Internet
• Email v Customer Culture
• A Conversation with Jeff Shay of Rejuvenation
• If Sustainability Were a Person…it’d be Sean
• Does your city support your business effort?
• Espresso Shot Insight: Resist the pressure to grow too fast
• All in the Family - The perfect niche businesses
• What social marketing do you engage in?
• Rick’s Magic Beans
• The Mistake Bank
• Mind Value
• Trunk Shows..For Men
• Throw Out The Long Term Plan - Do Something Now
• Bookshelf: Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution
• Two Helping Hands, Helps Everyone
• Interior design session, or a lesson in Kabuki theater? Discuss.
• Numbers we overlook in our society…
• In Small Business, Is It About College or Training?
• Make an opportunity, solve a problem, part II
• Make an opportunity, solve a problem, part I
• Kroger rejects global warming policy
• Book Recommendation: Nudge
• Modeling The Way To Green, One House At A Time
• No Fish–> No Fishsticks
• Do You Believe In (Imaginary) Friends?
• Business School Experiment Pays Off…How Green Cleaning Became A Platform For Customer Experience
• Tilth: Letting Your Inner Philosophy Be Your Guide
• Doing Good, And Wanting A Piece Of It
• Who’s Your City? (and, where have all the small businesses gone?)
• Green As Cyclical…Is It All A Fad?
• Some Thoughts On Social Entrepreneurism