entrepreneurship, successful model, se failures and lessons learned

Social Enterprise Failures and Lessons Learned

Reasons Behind… Why Entrepreneur! • Community • People• Country •and Worldwide issues

• Of course, making money (in less selfish way) •Innovative & Creative•Seeking for something meaningful

•Don’t fit the norm•Super Brilliant•Easily Bored•Never Relaxing attitude•Labeled the Rebel•Obsessed•Fired from Jobs

• Startup Weekend• Kyle Datta• Master Classes: Gretchen, Hitomi• Lessons-Peace one day• Erin Ganju (R2R Story)

• SE Failures!

APLP Week 11: Making a Difference

Case Studies: BRAC Foundation• February 1972 - In a remote corner of newly independent Bangladesh• A young man named Fazle Hasan Abed plant a tiny seed of change…

….Relief of returning war refugees…..

>Long term community development

>supporting rural woman artisan

Sir Fazle Hasan Abed

Global Reach•Largest  NGO in the world•Scaling up Asia and Africa•Reaching more that 126 million people•100,000 Staffs (70% women)•64 Districts in Bangladesh•BRAC Aarong•BRAC Bank •BRAC University•BRAC Research etc.

BRAC Education Program

•  700,000 students worldwide• 10 million students in Bangladesh• 410 schools in Philippines• BRAC to build 500 boat schools and 2,000 slum schools in

Bangladesh by 2014

BRAC Aarong: Crafting hopes, weaving dreams

Aarong – An Inspiring Story of Stitches

Aarong supports 65,000 rural artisans and handicraft producers

BRAC Dairy and Food Products

•BRAC Cold Storage• Fisheries• Poultry•BRAC Salt•Feed Mills etc

BRAC Health Program• Essential Health Care (EHC)• Maternal, neonatal and Child Health Program (MNCH)• Tuberculosis Control Program• Malaria Control Program• Alive and Thrive• Bangladesh Sprinkles Program• Eye Care Intervention• Non Communicable Disease (NCD)• BRAC Health Facilities

BRAC Renewable Energy Program

Lighting up lives with alternative energy supply

•BRAC installed 1.38 Mw stand alone SHS

•Rooftop Solutions

•Installed 72,470 SHS

•Bringing green solutions to the corporate world

Lessons learned/biggest takeaway

Entrepreneur’s Clock

“You always have less time than you think”

Just Need to START

Thank You