My Social Enterprise Story

I believe

In the power of

Businessto create positive

Social Change

My Story

THESIS GROUP

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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

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Mission:

To catalyze as many social enterprises from startup to scale-up stage

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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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