Friday, February 5, 2010

Alleviating poverty through Entrepreneurship


Rgupta@gmail.com
Acumendfund.org

The blue sweater

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The Bridgespan Group
Philanthrocapitalism
http://www.bridgespan.org/

Environmental issues

Bridgespan Lite

Strategic Clarity
Mission Statement (not enough)
Allocating scarce resources

Intended Impact > Who > Where > What
Theory of Change > your assets
Draw the line of Cause-ation
Not working? Shut it down

Anchor on 1: then focus from there
Once you do that, u can test things

Define Outcome

What he learned
Entrepenuers of necessity (microfinance)
Entrepenuers of Opportunity

Outliers of Model
Don't like theory

Not all entrepenuers are not all created equally
SME 5-500 personale Not the same

Age of the business is important.
Younger firms growth

Help > Parsing finance > hiring
What they really need

Formal skills, technical advice, capital

If you want to alliviate poverty, look at SME's and make them grow.

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Ashoka

Luke inspire to action

How to build a society where everyone is a change maker.

Revolutionize THE fishing industry!

Ashoka: find crazy people to run bness ideas to run social

Selection Criteria
new ideas
Creativity
Entrepenur quality
Social impact
Ethical fiber

Vicky Colbert, Columbia
Multi grade self paced education
Student government

I'm a change maker

Harvard Business review

Ohio State the ideal changemaker

Beat them w answers

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read: good to great
Buildapedia.com
Dave Gardner

Adam Malone : follow up

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