#TBT: L3C's

This weekend we have the honor of serving as a Social Entrepreneur panelist at the Small Business Law Academy, which is part of Detroit Entrepreneur Week.  Social entrepreneurs are ambitious and making large efforts to bring improvement to their respective community.  

A couple of years ago (time really flies), we wrote an article for Michipreneur on a popular business entity for social entrepreneurs, L3Cs, this is the link for that article.  We are looking forward to Saturday's discussion with the social entrepreneurs of metro Detroit. 

 

Source: 2015/2/12/l3cs-tbt

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