Category Archives: Social Entrepreneurs

Status update: Have I Got Social Enterprise News For You

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Are you excited? I’m excited. Why am I excited? Because this week Facebook updated the like button to include emojis, giving me a whole new range of ways to demonstrate complete indifference to pictures of people’s holidays / news of family gatherings / updates about what they had for dinner. It’s a brave new world and I like it (smiley face). So this week I’ve spent all my time on Facebook ‘working’, you can see what I found below.

No news next week as I’ll be in Norfolk with no access to a computer, so I’ll see you in a few weeks. Have a good weekend!

@davemcglashan

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Scale vs integrity

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If you run an organisation where creating social impact is your primary aim, you are inevitably going to have to make decisions that compromise financial returns in favour of your social impact.

Imagine this: You’ve signed up to being a social entrepreneur, you’re on a crusade for change and you’ve committed to the highs and lows that will come your way. Work life balance feels like a mythical utopia right now and you find yourself dreaming about overheads and cash flow.  In addition to the stresses of being your own boss you also find yourself facing moral dilemmas.

On one occasion an opportunity to scale your organisation comes up. It would allow you to grow much faster than you ever dreamed, but to take advantage of the offer you are required to flex your organisational values and change your model.

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Let me give you a quote for that: Have I Got Social Enterprise News For You

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Have I Got Social Enterprise NewS For You

In a shallow effort to make myself seem more intelligent than I actually am I recently purchased a copy of ‘Geary’s Guide to the World’s Great Aphorists‘, a collection of quotes from some of history’s great minds. My plan is to learn some and utter them sagely from time to time while looking thoughtful. Foolproof. Anyway, it turns out that there is a quote for just about anything. So this week’s news is wrapped around some of them, because as playwright and author Dorothy Sayers (new to me) once said “a facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought”.

Enjoy the news, and have a great weekend.

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What do you get when you put 450 aspiring young entrepreneurs on an Indian train?

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Sat at my desk at the beginning of December my colleague strolled over from the other side of the office, I was hoping they were going to offer me a cup of tea, instead the conversation went:

What are you doing at Christmas?

Erm, you know family stuff, the usual.

Do you want to go on a train round India?

What, why? YES.

SSE are venturing into the sub-continent for the first time this year and with the launch in Delhi just around the corner we need to get the word out far and wide so that we can find a great inaugural cohort of social entrepreneurs. To help us do this we have partnered with Jagriti Yatra who are ‘Building India through enterprise’. Continue reading →

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Number crunching…Have I Got Social Enterprise News For You

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If I had a pound every time someone subscribed to Have I Got Social Enterprise News For You, I’d now have £10,000. Yep, we hit five figures this week and now reach a massive 0.015625% of the UK population. Literally 156 in every 1 million people read this newsletter, which I think makes it more popular than the Liberal Democrats. Thank you all for subscribing and putting up with it each week. (I now await a flurry of unsubscribes to take us back below the 10000 mark..!)

Have a good week, here’s your news…

@davemcglashan

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