The founders of Common, a Boulder-based a social enterprise startup accelerator, have learned an important lesson since launching in 2011: Many purpose-driven companies are forced to shift from their missions or pull away from collaborative efforts when money gets tight.
They thought to themselves: What if social entrepreneurs knew they could count on a certain amount of money coming in each month? Wouldn’t that free them up to devote more time and resources to making the world a better place?
It’s questions like these that led Common to launch an experimental pilot program that would provide accelerator members with a monthly […]
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