The Social Entrepreneur podcast

In Conscious, Fledglings, Interviews/Articles, Startup Ecoystem
November 16, 2015
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The Social Entrepreneur podcast is for aspiring and early-stage social entrepreneurs; and for those who want to make an impact on the world.  Stories about the grand challenges in the world and the solutions that they are creating.

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January 12, 2023

Progress Recycling Glass at Bricolage Dynamics

In Fledglings
January 12, 2023
12January

After a successful crowdfunding in 2022, Bricolage Dynamics now has a commercial-scale processing center that is busy recycling post-consumer glass into sand, for use in construction and landscaping. The plan for 2023 is to begin franchising their glass to sand model. If you know of a community that is not collecting glass, or any municipal recycling company that is sending most of their...

December 7, 2022

Filling in the Missing Middle

In Advice, Africa, Startup Ecoystem
December 7, 2022
07December

“The Missing Middle” is what we call the gap in finance the majority of entrepreneurs face in getting from a viable prototype or early customers to a full-scale proven business. In Part 1, Luni explains who he is, and how he came to fill in this otherwise missing middle.   In Part 2, Luni jumps back to the history of venture capital to explain the pervasive paradigm that leads to...

November 10, 2022

The Best Inventions of 2022: Evnru’s NuCycl

In Fledglings
November 10, 2022
10November

Every year, we collectively throw away 50 million tons of clothes and other textiles worldwide. With its 100% waste-based, fully recyclable NuCycl fiber, launched in April, Evrnu aspires to create a virtuous textile cycle. NuCycl is made by chemically liquefying old textiles into their essential molecules, purifying the liquid pulp, and then extruding the pulp into fibers to be spun into yarn...

October 26, 2022

Visiting Paniel Meat Processing and Livestock Bank

In Conscious
October 26, 2022
26October

Paniel Meat Processing and Livestock Bank, two companies created by the same founder merged back together in early 2022. Business is good, growing from $35,000 in annual revenues back in 2017 to over $1.5 million USD in 2022. In short… it works. Quite well. To see what that means in practice, below is a site visit video shot this month in Kigali, Rwanda. Share this:Click to share on Twitter...

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