Social Startup Success

How the Best Nonprofits Launch, Scale Up, and Make a Difference

By: Kathleen Kelly Janus

Narrated by: Kathleen Kelly Janus

Length: 7 hrs and 1 min

Publisher's summary

With business advice from an expert entrepreneur, learn how to identify and leverage the key factors that will bring sustainability and success to your startup.

Kathleen Kelly Janus, a lecturer at the Stanford University Program on Social Entrepreneurship and the founder of the successful social enterprise Spark, set out to investigate what makes a startup succeed or fail. She surveyed more than 200 high-performing social entrepreneurs and interviewed dozens of founders. Social Startup Success shares her findings for the legions of entrepreneurs working for social good, revealing how the best organizations get over the revenue hump. How do social ventures scale to over $2 million, Janus's clear benchmark for a social enterprise's sustainability?

Janus, tapping into strong connections to the Silicon Valley world where many of these ventures are started or and/or funded, reveals insights from key figures such as DonorsChoose founder Charles Best, charity:water's Scott Harrison, Reshma Saujani of Girls Who Code and many others. Social Startup Success will be social entrepreneurship's essential playbook; the first definitive guide to solving the problem of scale.

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©2018 Kathleen Kelly Janus (P)2018 Hachette Audio

So Much To Understand about Social Start Ups

with so much to learn, Social Start Up Success provides amazing insight to what can seemingly be a complex and difficult realm to be in.

Tools that are needed.

I heard the author speaking at an event and knew I needed to read and listen to it.

Inspirational

I get more idea about new projects and how to successfully run a nonprofit organization.

Excellent book on nonprofit success

Well-organized and well-delivered advice from the author's interviews of successful nonprofit leaders around the U.S. The advice feels real and also like a distillation of just good strategic management for any kind of organization although she does include examples and helpful nuances for the social sector. I would highly recommend it to nonprofit leaders, board members, students of business and social impact and teachers in these areas.

A step-by-step guide

Loved it, she really provides a step-by-step guide to creating a great and sustainable nonprofit!

Great book on social entrepreneurship

This book is written in an easy to follow way for anyone interested in the topic. I adresses many of the key areas where social entrepreneurs need to put some effort in order to avoid topical traps and rip the required benefits. Never marries with one solution and offer a number of alternatives of courses developing some over others. It provides examples only to illustrate and not as the only source of the book. The best book of social entrepreneurship I have read so far

Packed with Relevant and Reliable Information

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Especially impressed with the real-life examples of how social entrepreneurs conceive, operate and sustain their enterprises. The author also offered tools that I will use to build my nonprofit’s capacity to serve. Great knowing that nonprofits can use earned income to serve the public good.

wisdom from the very best

This book should be required reading for any social enterprise startup team or social enterprise investor. Kathleen Kelly Janus does a great job distilling many of the key success factors that drive social startup success. Importantly, she also lays out a wide range of speedbumps to avoid. My favorite: "Hire slow, fire fast." Additionally, her discussion of "outputs vs. outcomes" offers a wealth of info about how to effectively demonstrate how you are delivering against what you are promising.

Outstanding

If you have any interest in social impact, this is your book. Amazing resource and well written. May the world be socially impacted for the better! :)

loved it!

Very informative, loved the author. Demonstrates clear knowledge about the industry and the book was entertaining.