Watch Yellow Leaf Hammocks co-founder Joe Demin talk about the 600-mile taxi ride that led to his company, which is creating sustainable jobs for Thailand's hill tribe communities—by selling some of the most comfortable hammocks in the world!
Social entrepreneurs as guilty as any group of lawyers or engineers in using jargon and shorthand to identify and evaluate each other’s places in the tribe. What is "social innovation" anyway? What’s "impact investing"? Take any of those expressions out of context and it’s clear how unclear they are. They’ve become as clichéd as “thought leader.”
Do you want to give better pitches, create better marketing campaigns, and better articulate your ideas to investors, customers, and supporters? The answer to achieving all of this is simple. You need to make your idea "stick."
Many social entrepreneurs have an ambivalent attitude towards marketing. They may think that marketing is all about deceptive advertising, but marketing doesn’t have to be sleazy. In fact, developing the marketing mindset will help you and your customers.
What do you have in common with Apple, Nike, Cheetos or Facebook? Read this post to learn why your personal brand is just as valuable as any other company brand.
Fear of failure has prevented people from falling in love, becoming artists, telling friends the truth, and chasing dreams without apology. If we are going to continue to shy away from failure, it's time we redefined it.
A ton of money has been wasted over complicating these three things, read on to discover how to get clear on your vision, your mission and your values.
Are you wasting time optimizing the wrong thing? Talking to the wrong customers and partners? Measuring the wrong metrics? Read this post to learn how to avoid this in your start-up.
Too many entrepreneurs waste countless hours (and dollars) trying to come up with the "perfect" name for their new business. Pascal Finette says "Don't Bother".
If as a startup, you hire professionals to help create your brand, not only have you wasted valuable money, but you have settled, ipso facto, on creating a mediocre brand.
Use the resources in this post to easily build a beautiful website, create a new brand, string up a logo, design the best presentation you've ever seen.