Danielle Carruthers, founder of TheSedge.org, interviewed me about social entrepreneurship, design thinking and lean startup tools. I met Danielle when we both participated in Start-Up Chile. She’s an enthusiastic supporter of all things social enterprise and she’s created all sorts of helpful resources and courses for non-profits looking to create revenue-generating business models and create more sustainable impact, including BOOST Academy.

Here’s the full interview:

Here’s what we talked about:

• My long and winding career path and how Danielle and I met in Chile [introduction]
• My simple visual for wrapping your head around the idea of social entrepreneurship [6:50min]
• The connection between design thinking and social entrepreneurship [9:50min]
• How Design Thinking and Lean Methodology are connected right down to their 3-word mantras [11:40min]
• How mushroom-preneurs are using Lean Thinking (yes, I said mushroom-preneurs) [14min]
• The number 1 free resource you need to check out [21:10min]
• Why it’s important to start small even when you’re trying to change the world [35:10min]

Links I mention during the interview: 

IDEO Human Centered Design Toolkit
http://www.ideo.com/work/human-centered-design-toolkit/

Lean Startup
http://theleanstartup.com/

Back to the Roots
https://www.backtotheroots.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW_1pTj2a6k

IDEO.org at the Lean Startup Conference (experimenting with toilets in Africa)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-3rCWbJ4PU

Uber hires David Plouffe
http://www.politico.com/…/david-plouffe-uber-campaign…

Sanivation
http://sanivation.com/
http://us4.campaign-archive1.com/…

If you prefer to read than listen, I have the full transcript and I’d be happy to send it to you. Feel free to email me: leslieforman@gmail.com. Thanks!! :)