Newsletter No. 10
Thibaut’s Newsletter
Fostering Entrepreneurship, Empowering Entrepreneurs
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This is a weekly newsletter of what I’ve seen or thought about the art of venturing and considered was interesting to share. My main goal is to start building a small community and a true conversation. I want to discover your own tools, techniques, thoughts and ideas. Together we are smarter; so please, comment!
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This week, the Newsletter is a bit special. I was thinking for a long time about a problem in the entrepreneurship world: too many superficial ventures and too many big problems left on the side. The mass shooting of this week in Florida shocked me and convinced me it was urgent to treat this topic. Please, share your own thoughts and don’t hesitate to mention more great organizations promoting meaningful entrepreneurship.
✏️ My blog post
We need more entrepreneurs working to tackle important problems!
💡 Inspiring meaningful ventures
The Ocean Cleanup, founded by @BoyanSlat who, at 18, decided to clean the oceans from plastics and finish with 50% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in 5 years.
New Story to create a world where no human being lives in survival mode.
News Deeply builds single-topic platforms combining journalistic reporting, expert analysis and community insights. They provide complete and meaningful information in a time of a infotainment and fake news.
La Tablée des Chefs fight against food waisting and connect restaurants and hotels with people suffering to buy food. They started in Canada and are opening in France and Mexico.
Water.org is a non-profit organization that has transformed thousands of communities in Africa, South Asia, and Central America by providing access to safe water and sanitation. Founded by Matt Damon (yes him) and Gary White, Water.org works with local partners to deliver innovative solutions for long-term success.
VisionSpring developed an extraordinary business model in order to bring eyeglasses to the poorest and allow them to keep working or be more productive and support their families.
d.light develops high-quality, affordable, and innovative solar-powered consumer products for families without access to reliable electricity.
🏛 Useful organizations looking for more socially conscious entrepreneurs
Ashoka helps social entrepreneurship development worldwide working for instance on identification and spreading of best practices.
Matter accelerate from San Francisco and NY the most promising ventures in the strategic field of media. They support media entrepreneurs building a more informed, connected, and empowered society.
Praxis ensures that Christian entrepreneurs keep a coherence between their faith and their venture. They focus on young entrepreneurs and students with a remarkable set of resources enabling what they call “redemptive entrepreneurship”.
Skoll Foundation drives large-scale change by investing in, connecting, and celebrating social entrepreneurs and the innovators who help them solve the world’s most pressing problems.
Omidyar Network invests in entrepreneurs and their visionary ideas that create opportunities for people to improve their lives, their communities, and the world around them.
Thiel Fellowship is a two-year program for young people who want to build new things. They bet on those who starts amazing thing because they just don’t know it’s “impossible”.
🎁 Have a nice weekend!
My gift this week is a bit sad but I would like to celebrate brilliant and purposeful creativity through this extraordinary cartoon from @BillBramhall: