Muhammed Yunus
is a 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner and the founder of Grameen Bank,
and he sparked a movement with the simple question: “If you are a socially
conscious person, why don’t you run your business in a way that will help
achieve social objectives?”
Today,
entrepreneurs and investors in Silicon Valley — and increasingly in tech hubs
around the world — have taken this mission to heart. The trend is often
referred to as “social entrepreneurship” or “impact investing,” and the goal is
to use business process to drive positive change.
But social
entrepreneurship has its critics. Serial entrepreneur Steve
Blank quipped in a recent interview that it’s a “a bit of a fad” and startups
that “confuse social good with being in business usually end up as 501(c)(3)s”.
Likewise, Clay Johnson, author of the Information Diet, accused Change.org (the poster
child for social entrepreneurship that just pulled in $15 million) in a
story for the Wall Street Journal for being a “lead-generation
business disguised as a social-change organization for whoever is willing to
pay them for the email addresses”. Read more
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