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ENTREPRENEURIAL
SUCCESS:
SCOTT HARRISON
• Courage
• Perseverance
• Listener
• Innovative
• Creative
CHARACTERISTICS OF AN
ENTREPRENEUR
• Childhood
• Single Child
• Caretaker
• Christian
• Young Adult
• Club Promoter
• Mercy Ships
• Discovered Need for
Clean Water
BACKGROUND
COURAGE
• Left well paying job
• Broke down on the
first day with Mercy
Ships
• Started charity:water
$30,000 in debt
• Approached
companies like Saks
Fifth Avenue
• Had to pay to go
with Mercy Ships
• Non-Profit sector is
shrinking
• People don’t always
trust charities
• Pivoted to focus on
the water crisis
PERSEVERANCE
• People need clean
drinking water
• 80% of diseases
spread by dirty water
• $20 per person to fix
• People wanted to
know where their
money went
LISTEN
• 100% of public
donations go to
wells
• Private donations
cover other costs
• Give Up a Birthday
initiative
INNOVATIVE
• Dirty water
exhibition
• The Macallan
• Opening the Stock
Exchange
• Photos shoots of
wealthy carrying
jerry cans
• Rig Twitter accounts
CREATIVE
• In 2013
• 999,867 people
served
• $35,944,104 raised
• Total Since 2007
• 3.3 million people
served
• Over $100 million
raised
NUMBERS DON’T LIE
• Courage
• Perseverance
• Listener
• Innovative
• Creative
ENTREPRENEUR:SCOTT HARRISON
Works Cited
charity:water. (2013). Annual Report 2013 . Retrieved from charitywater.org:
http://www.charitywater.org/about/cw_13_annual_report.pdf
charity:water. (n.d.). About Us. Retrieved from charitywater.org:
http://www.charitywater.org/about/
Harrison, S. (2006). Scott's Story. (K. Rose, Interviewer) Retrieved from
http://www.charitywater.org/about/scotts_story.php
Schwabel, D. (2013, July 22). Scott Harrison: How He Started charity: water
And What He Learned In The Process. Retrieved from Forbes.com:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/danschawbel/2013/07/22/scott-
harrison-how-he-started-charity-water-and-what-he-learned-in-the-
process/
Thirsting For a Life of Service. (2013, November 26). Stanford University's
Entrepreneurship Corner. Stanford University. Retrieved from
http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=3219
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