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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 [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Grant_Jacoby 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>

== The Message: Social Entrepreneurship ==

== Conclusion: = Steps to Success :&nbsp; ===

<li>Spread the word of social entrepreneuship on your campus.&nbsp;</li><li>Define the goal of the company; what problem are you passionate about solving?How you will solve it, and make a profit?</li><li>Find a strong team filled with people who are passionate about the same things you are.&nbsp;</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. Crowdfunding is also a good option; do your research to find the best crowdfunding website for your company have a strong, clear video message, and a conside, well written statement.</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 [https://canvanizer.com/ 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 Groupsand 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 idstyle="docsvertical-internalalign: baseline; white-guidspace: pre-77a0cc06wrap;">Always be open to collaboration, change, and growing the company for the betterment of society.</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-714asize:small;"><span style="font-ab01family:arial,helvetica,sans-db69-0f9802424df4serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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>Take advantage of other valuable resources listed here:</span></span></span></li>

=== 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/]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Richard_Anderson_III Richard Anderson III -- &nbsp;]<div>[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Richard_Anderson_III Lara_Eremita Lara Eremita]</div><div><br/></div><div>Jeremy Revlock</div><div><br/></div><div>[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jean_Paul_Mugisha Jean Paul Mugisha]</div><div><br/></div><div>[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Richard_Anderson_III/User:Marouanesmaili Marouane Smaili]</div><div><br/></div><div>Jake Gunnoe</div>