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Sample text == Promotion == Sample text == Conclusion: Steps to Success ==<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li>Spread the word of social entrepreneuship on your campus. </li><li>Define the goal of the company; what problem are you passionate about solving? </li><li><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-77a0cc06-714a-ab01-db69-0f9802424df4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Build a list of connections and entities with funding and support for startups. Use these resources throughout the process of starting a company. This includes local utility companies with immediate impact grants, innovation centers, and school faculty.</span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-77a0cc06-714a-ab01-db69-0f9802424df4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Make a business model. A useful resource is the canvas model, found online here, which can organize stakeholders, costs, team communications, and the business plan.</span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-77a0cc06-714a-ab01-db69-0f9802424df4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Verify value and costs via interviews (100 at least): Focus Groups</span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Create a five-year plan for the company, estimating financial gains and social impacts</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-77a0cc06-714a-ab01-db69183e74b6-0f9802424df4"><span style="vertical7210-align: baseline; whitef441-space: pre237e-wrap;f4dcbb1e734f">Connect funding sources to a business plan. If you are interested in crowdfunding, then look at the dominant successes in crowdfunding such as Kickstarter, IndyGoGo, Rocket, etc. Have a good video less than 2 minutes long and avoid spelling error.</span></span></span></span></li></ol> === Links: === <span id="docs-internal-guid-77a0cc06-714c-2364-aade-5d3a67b5400e">[https://canvanizer.com/ https://canvanizer.com/]</span> <span id="docs-internal-guid-77a0cc06-714c-2364-aade-5d3a67b5400e"><span id="docs-internal-guid-77a0cc06-714c-2364-aade-5d3a67b5400e">[https://www.udacity.com/course/how-to-build-a-startup--ep245 https://www.udacity.com/course/how-to-build-a-startup--ep245]</span></span> <span id="docs-internal-guid-77a0cc06-714c-2364-aade-5d3a67b5400e"><span id="docs-internal-guid-77a0cc06-714c-2364-aade-5d3a67b5400e"><span id="docs-internal-guid-77a0cc06-714c-2364-aade-5d3a67b5400e">[https://www.bcorporation.net/ https://www.bcorporation.net/]</span></span></span> <span id="docs-internal-guid-77a0cc06-714c-2364-aade-5d3a67b5400e"><span id="docs-internal-guid-77a0cc06-714c-2364-aade-5d3a67b5400e"><span id="docs-internal-guid-77a0cc06-714c-2364-aade-5d3a67b5400e"><span id="docs-internal-guid-77a0cc06-714c-2364-aade-5d3a67b5400e"><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[http://www.innovation.pitt.edu/ http://www.innovation.pitt.edu/]</span></span></span></span></span> [http://www.threadinternational.com/ http://www.threadinternational.com/] [https://unreasonable.is/5-benefits-to-becoming-a-b-corp/ https://unreasonable.is/5-benefits-to-becoming-a-b-corp/] [http://www.seedsgreenprinting.com/ http://www.seedsgreenprinting.com/] === Contributors: === Richard Anderson III -- [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Richard_Anderson_III http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Richard_Anderson_III]<div><br/></div>
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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>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-77a0cc06-71a3-becf-e76e-d2344c922cfe"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One such company is </span>[http://www.threadinternational.com/ <span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thread</span>]<span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, where an acquaintance of Jacoby’s works. The startup is valued very highly but its focus is making clothing out of processed plastic bottles. The clothes are made out of raw material collected from the streets. Plastic bottles are processed in a plant to create fibers that are used to create products. </span>[http://www.seedsgreenprinting.com/ <span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SEEDS</span>] <span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is another example of B corps certified SE startups. The company is a green printing company offering environmentally friendly printing services to its customers from initial concept to final delivery and distribution.</span></span>
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