The Social Entrepreneur’s Playbook, Online Learning Edition
Phase One: Pressure Test Your Start-Up Idea
Ian C. MacMillan and James D. Thompson
“An important contribution to help aspiring entrepreneurs take the first step.” —David Bornstein, Author of How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas
This free Online Learning Edition of The Social Entrepreneur’s Playbook covers the first of three phases in the social enterprise startup process.
This Online Learning Edition includes:
- Introduction: The Creation of Social Wealth Out of Poverty
- Chapter 1. Articulate Your Targeted Problem and Substantiate Your Proposed Solution
- Chapter 2. Specify Performance Criteria
- Chapter 3. Define and Segment Your Target Population
- Chapter 4. Understand the Beneficiary Experience
- Chapter 5. Analyze the Most Competitive Alternative
- Chapter 6. Identify Operations Realities
- Chapter 7. Address the Inevitable Sociopolitics
- Chapter 8. Develop a Concept Statement
The Social Entrepreneur’s Playbook: Pressure Test, Plan, Launch and Scale Your Social Enterprise, Expanded Edition, by Ian C. MacMillan and James D. Thompson, covers all three phases of the start-up to scale-up process.
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read more +About the Authors
Ian C. MacMillan
Ian (Mac) C. MacMillan is the The Dhirubhai Ambani Emeritus Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Previously, he was the academic director of the Sol C. Snider Entrepreneurial Center. Mac... 
James D. Thompson
James D. Thompson is the co-founder and director of the Wharton Social Entrepreneurship Program and Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Social Policy and Practice of the University of Pennsylvania. His current areas of...
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