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<span id="docs-internal-guid-77a0cc06-714d-cc41-0592-e4797fbd1748"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Social entrepreneurship is a rapidly growing venture that encourages growing a profitable business while helping others. When speaking with Grant Jacoby about his efforts at the University of Pittsburgh, he emphasized the numerous opportunities that come from social entrepreneurship and the ways in which he promotes it on his campus. Fellows who want to be true agents of change will be able to utilize this guide to promote profitable business ideas which help their school, community, and the world by making impactful emotional, physical, and environmental differences.</span></span>
  
  

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Social entrepreneurship is a rapidly growing venture that encourages growing a profitable business while helping others. When speaking with Grant Jacoby about his efforts at the University of Pittsburgh, he emphasized the numerous opportunities that come from social entrepreneurship and the ways in which he promotes it on his campus. Fellows who want to be true agents of change will be able to utilize this guide to promote profitable business ideas which help their school, community, and the world by making impactful emotional, physical, and environmental differences.


Talking With An Expert (Grant Jacoby)

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Section 2

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Section 3

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Steps to Success

  1. Build a list of connections and entities with funding and support for start-ups. Use these resources throughout the process of starting a company. Ex) Local utility companies with immediate impact grants.
  2. Make a business model. (Canvanizer: Canvas model: Stakeholders, costs, business plan, etc.)
  3. Verify value and costs via interviews (100 at least): Focus Groups
  4. Make a business plan. - 5-year financial gains.
  5. Connect funding sources to a business plan. - Crowdfunding? Then look at the dominant successes in crowdfunding. -Kickstarter, IndyGoGo, Rocket, etc. - Have a good video less than 2 minutes long (Who are you, why, how do you make money, who is your team - No spelling errors).

Links:

https://canvanizer.com/

https://www.udacity.com/course/how-to-build-a-startup--ep245

https://www.bcorporation.net/

http://www.innovation.pitt.edu/



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