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Have you all visited this awesome blog "Youths For Social Entrepreneurship"?
They just wrote an awesomely comprehensive article about Envisage start-up journey, my personal views on the landscape, and some tips I have for people who wish to start their own SEs. Link to article is provided below! Click it, Read it! It's long, but I believe you will learn a thing or two from it.
http://youthfse.com/2013/05/06/envisage-education-social-entrepreneurship-for-the-next-generation/
Some excerpts:
Here’s what he thinks:
- “Start small – don’t be afraid to start small, and don’t be afraid to fail. And when it fails – which it will, it definitely will, regular enterprises fail 90% of the time – you must create space for it, and not drag others down, especially your beneficiaries.”
- “Youth entrepreneurs must start somewhere. If they don’t start, they’ll never know whether it works, and if they don’t start, it will never happen, basically. Do a trial run, do research, see if there’s a market, do prototyping, have a great sensitivity of what’s happening…. Don’t just think about it, or you’ll never know whether it’ll work.”
- “Figure out who you want to help. You don’t start a social enterprise just because you feel like it.”
Have you all visited this awesome blog "Youths For Social Entrepreneurship"?
They just wrote an awesomely comprehensive article about Envisage start-up journey, my personal views on the landscape, and some tips I have for people who wish to start their own SEs. Link to article is provided below! Click it, Read it! It's long, but I believe you will learn a thing or two from it.
http://youthfse.com/2013/05/06/envisage-education-social-entrepreneurship-for-the-next-generation/
Some excerpts:
Here’s what he thinks:
- “Start small – don’t be afraid to start small, and don’t be afraid to fail. And when it fails – which it will, it definitely will, regular enterprises fail 90% of the time – you must create space for it, and not drag others down, especially your beneficiaries.”
- “Youth entrepreneurs must start somewhere. If they don’t start, they’ll never know whether it works, and if they don’t start, it will never happen, basically. Do a trial run, do research, see if there’s a market, do prototyping, have a great sensitivity of what’s happening…. Don’t just think about it, or you’ll never know whether it’ll work.”
- “Figure out who you want to help. You don’t start a social enterprise just because you feel like it.”
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