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It's Not All About Growth for Social Enterprises

Harvard Business Review

If you ask venture capitalists in Silicon Valley how they measure the success of business entrepreneurs, they would no doubt list off metrics having to do with fast growth: funding raised, people hired, customers acquired, revenue produced. Yet, if scaling impact is the goal, these skills are essential. Conclusion?

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Go Ahead, Take a Failure Bow

Harvard Business Review

They cover the goal, history, and timing of the failure; what went right and what went wrong; three things he or she personally learned; three things DoSomething.org learned. That''s the only way, she acknowledges, that they''ll get the big success stories. One example was an affiliate marketing program.