Education
Tom Dawkins is the Co-Founder & CEO of StartSomeGood. Tom has been the founder of 5 nonprofits and social enterprises and built the leading platform in cause-driven crowdfunding, innovative partnerships and social entrepreneur education. Since its conception in 2010, the platform has enabled more than 1000 projects to raise over $12.5 million to make a positive impact in the world. Their projects have an outstanding 53% success rate compared with 39% on Kickstarter and 9% on Indiegogo. In addition to their technology platform, they created a one stop shop for social entrepreneurs with accelerators, a social enterprise design course, live crowdfunding pitch events, a network community, and everything to help people design and launch social enterprises and impact projects.Full show notes and worksheets can be found here: evolvethe.world/episodes/tom-dawkinsWhat You Will Learn In This Episode:The little known secrets from over a 1000 successful crowdfunding campaignsHow to fund ideas facing the innovation paradoxHow to convene, not convert, your idea’s first audienceThe 5 heart grabbing hooks to get people raving about your crowdfunding ideaWhy the world’s biggest challenges are the biggest business opportunitiesThe 4 phases of social entrepreneurshipIf you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests. I also love reading the reviews!