Startup School: How To Balance Profit With Purpose

​All businesses have an impact on the world, and some businesses are set up in order to have a specific impact, like a social enterprise or purpose-driven business. Join this session to learn more about how profit and purpose work together in your startup.

This session will cover:

• ​What is a social enterprise, or impact business?

• ​How can you understand and define your intended (and unintended) impacts?

• ​How can you articulate how your business will create the change that you are aiming for?

• ​How can you choose indicators to measure and evaluate your impact as you grow?

​Dr. Paroma Bhattacharya is the Head of Social Innovation at LSE Generate. She is also affiliated with the LSE Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa (FLIA), the LSE Department of Management and the LSE Social Innovation Lab. She has a Ph.D. in Management and her research interests and expertise lie in the field of social innovation and entrepreneurship, with a focus on the organizational behaviour of start-up social enterprises, the incubation and acceleration of early-stage social venture teams and social business model innovation in the context of emerging economies. She has taught postgraduate and undergraduate level courses on Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the LSE and the Indian School of Design and Innovation Parsons, Mumbai. She has also worked for several years as a business and leadership coach for start-up social entrepreneurs at UnLtd India, a leading social enterprise incubator in India. Her research, work, and field experience, in the domains of Social Innovation and International Development, spans across 13 years and several countries, including India, UK, Denmark, Sri Lanka, Kenya and Rwanda.

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​Are you a first-time founder? Do you have a business idea but you don’t know where to start? Want to change the world but need help with the first step?

​Startup School is the place to start!

​Startup School is a series of of live interactive workshops with entrepreneurial experts who will teach you how to test your assumptions, where to find your first customers, how to build your MVP, where to look for finance and funding, and what steps to take next.

​If you join six of the workshops, you’ll receive a LinkedIn certificate of programme completion from LSE.