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SUMMARY:Speeding the Convergence of Impact and Profit - Nikon Rasumov
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CONTACT:Sven Friedemann
DESCRIPTION:Social enterprises are profitable businesses with a quantifiab
 le social impact. Are they the solution to the growing social and environm
 ental problems? *Could we eradicate all inequalities by making them unprof
 itable and investing into impact?*\n\nDespite a rapidly growing market of 
 impact investing (12%)\, the social sector struggles to identify successfu
 l social enterprises and to scale them to regions where they will have the
  greatest social impact.\n\nWhile at Darwin\, my company Pullapproach deve
 loped a technology that identifies and scales social enterprises.Through o
 ur Enterprise Resource Planning and Open Innovation tools\, we lower the t
 ransaction cost of benchmarking social impact and replicating social enter
 prises in other regions. Our technology is currently validated in 15 count
 ries with clients ranging from NGOs\, governments and multinationals. We a
 re incubated by Singularity University (Silicon Valley) amongst companies 
 predicted to impact 1 billion people in 10 years.\n\nUseful links:\n"Marke
 ts for Good":http://www.marketsforgood.org/speeding-the-convergence-of-imp
 act-and-profit/\n\, "Pullapproach":http://pullapproach.com\n\, "Singularit
 y University":http://singularityu.org/labs/
LOCATION:1 Newnham Terrace\, Darwin College
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