51: How to Start Your Own Social Enterprise and Make a Big Impact with StartSomeGood's founder Tom Dawkins

The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan

Nathan Chan

Marketing, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 662 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2015

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

He was told it couldn’t be done. Social good was meant for nonprofits. Businesses were for making money. But Tom Dawkins always felt like there was a puzzle to be solved, that he could put the pieces together and run a profitable business that created change in the world. A serial entrepreneur from a young age, Dawkins worked in both nonprofits and tech startups before finally solving it. The result was StartSomeGood, a crowd-funding platform for anyone—nonprofit, for profit, or individual—with an idea to make positive change in the world. In this episode you will learn: - How to start your own social enterprise - How to measure your impact and why - The true definition of social entrepreneurship - How find a problem that needs solving - Budgeting 101 with a for profit social enterprise - & So much more!

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0:00.0	This is episode number 51 with Tom Dawkins of the Founder Podcast.
0:05.9	Discover exactly what it takes to become a successful entrepreneur and what's possible through entrepreneurship from the greatest minds in business today.
0:14.9	Welcome to the founder podcast.
0:17.1	Here's your host, Nathan Chan.
0:25.1	Thank you. Here's your host, Nathan Chan. Good morning and good evening, wherever you are in the world.
0:29.6	My name is Nathan Chan and I am your host coming to you live from Melbourne, Australia.
0:37.5	Now, I'm really excited about today's guest.
0:40.8	His name is Tom Dawkins, and he's the founder of Start Some Good.
0:46.3	And a lot of you guys, you know, I get a lot of our community reach out to us.
0:52.0	And one request that I've been getting a lot is to interview more
0:55.2	social entrepreneurs, people that are doing some good. And Tom is the founder of Start Some
1:03.1	Good and it's a crowdfunding platform for non-profits, social entrepreneurs and change makers.
1:10.7	And, you know, what Tom does and has done with his work as an entrepreneur is extremely
1:18.6	admirable.
1:19.8	And if you're looking to start your own social enterprise or any sort of social venture where your impact can be tracked and measured and
1:30.3	it's it's doing good for the world which is you know something that on this interview I
1:37.3	originally found it difficult to wrap my head around but after speaking with Tom he really
1:43.3	really unpacked things on what it means
1:46.2	and how you can create your own social enterprise. Even if you're a capitalist like me,
1:52.2	there are some elements that you can add to your business that makes it, I guess,
1:57.9	contributing to the world more and using your business as a force for good.
2:03.8	And that's something that I would like to focus on in the near future for founder.
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