#4 Tom Dawkins - StartSomeGood: Exciting New Ways to Fund a Social Enterprise

In this episode of Products With Purpose, Eli spoke with Tom Dawkins, the Founder, and CEO of StartSomeGood, GoodHustle, and LendForGood

StartSomeGood is a global crowdfunding platform with the goal to support emerging social entrepreneurs around the world and help them design, test, launch, and grow social impact projects in order to increase the pace of innovation for social change.

Before StartSomeGood, Tom founded Australian youth non-profit Vibewire, opened the first co-working space in Australia, was the first Digital Communications Director at Ashoka in Washington DC, and was the founding Director of the Australian Changemakers Festival.

Here are some of Tom Dawkin's Accomplishments

• The Top 50 Emerging Leaders List of 2015 – Startup Daily
• Mentioned as one of The Nine Most Influential Aussie Entrepreneurs on Twitter by SmartCompany
• Published by Living Now Magazine as their cover story titled "What's Your Calling?"
• Featured at Generosity Magazine, Sydney Morning Herald, ABC News, SBS Radio, and Social Entrepreneur

Some of the highlights from this episode:

• The Importance of constantly reimagining and reinventing ideas
• Creating a social enterprise to pave opportunities for young people
• The big gap in funding social enterprises and ideas to close it
• Ways and principles of creating a product ecosystem

-Relevant Links-

• StartSomeGood
• GoodHustle
• LendForGood
• Tom Dawkins
• Tom's LinkedIn

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