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With business advice from an expert entrepreneur, learn how to identify and leverage the key factors that will bring sustainability and success to your startup.Kathleen Kelly Janus, a lecturer at the Stanford University Program on Social Entrepreneurship and the founder of the successful social enterprise Spark, set out to investigate what makes a startup succeed or fail. She surveyed more than 200 high-performing social entrepreneurs and interviewed dozens of founders. Social Startup Success shares her findings for the legions of entrepreneurs working for social good, revealing how the best organizations get over the revenue hump. How do social ventures scale to over $2 million, Januss clear benchmark for a social enterprises sustainability?Janus, tapping into strong connections to the Silicon Valley world where many of these ventures are started or and/or funded, reveals insights from key figures such as DonorsChoose founder Charles Best, charity:waters Scott Harrison, Reshma Saujani of Girls Who Code and many others. Social Startup Success will be social entrepreneurships essential playbook; the first definitive guide to solving the problem of scale.



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Kathleen Kelly Janus

Kathleen Kelly Janus is a social entrepreneur, author and lecturer at Stanford University's Program on Social Entrepreneurship. As an expert on philanthropy, millennial engagement and scaling early stage organizations, her work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Tech Crunch and the San Francisco Chronicle. In 2014, she received the Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen SV2 Social Impact Award for her commitment to philanthropy. A graduate of Berkeley Law School, Kathleen also graduated with highest honors from U.C. Berkeley.



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