my social enterprise story
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social enterprise talk 2013TRANSCRIPT
I believe
In the power of
Businessto create positive
Social Change
My Story
THESIS GROUP
The Water Hyacinth (Eichornia crassipes)
a.k.a. “Water Lily”
Imagine
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The innovative water hyacinth leather
Entrepreneur Jean Baptiste Say, an entrepreneur
is one who “shifts economic
resources out of an area of lower and into an area of
higher productivity and
greater yield”
Sometimes great business ideas start from things that we would normally take for
granted
Linking the Social Enterprise Landscape
Communities Entrepreneurs Market
Community organizingStakeholder linking
Increasing the pipeline of entrepreneurs
Raising consumer awareness & support for social enterprises
Venture FundersInvestors
As an ENTREPRENEUR Experiences | lessons learned | applications
Mission:
To catalyze as many social enterprises from startup to scale-up stage
ENTREPRENEUR Experiences | lessons learned | applications
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How do you start?
What am I PASSIONATE
ABOUT?
Where do my
TALENTS lie?
Who is the MARKET – those who
are willing to pay for what I
will do?
SWEET SPOT
JUST Take the Plunge.
You will be amazed at what is out there.
You DON’T need to know everything.
You DO NEED the COURAGE to just
START
"The craziest thing to me in all this," he says, "is that I remember having these conversations with my friends when I was in college. We would just sort of take it as an assumption that the world would get to the state where it is now.
But, we figured, we're just college kids. Why were we the people who were most qualified to do that? I mean, that's crazy!"
He shakes his head, with the same perplexed expression….Then he decides.
"I guess what it probably turns out is, other
people didn't care as much as we did.“
-Mark Zuckerberg
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better.It’s not.
- Lorax (Dr. Seuss)
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