51: How to Start Your Own Social Enterprise and Make a Big Impact with StartSomeGood's founder Tom Dawkins
Learn how to Start Your Own Social Enterprise
The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan · Foundr Media
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Show Notes
He was told it couldn’t be done. Social good was meant for nonprofits. Businesses were for making money. But Tom Dawkins always felt like there was a puzzle to be solved, that he could put the pieces together and run a profitable business that created change in the world.
A serial entrepreneur from a young age, Dawkins worked in both nonprofits and tech startups before finally solving it. The result was StartSomeGood, a crowd-funding platform for anyone—nonprofit, for profit, or individual—with an idea to make positive change in the world.
In this episode you will learn:
- How to start your own social enterprise
- How to measure your impact and why
- The true definition of social entrepreneurship
- How find a problem that needs solving
- Budgeting 101 with a for profit social enterprise
- & So much more!