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This blog is for all impact entrepreneurs seeking insights, best practices, and case studies to help them launch & scale their businesses!
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Customer Persona: Best tips to get the most out of it!
At Impactivs we constantly use and love customer personas. We also train and recommend entrepreneurs to do it. We have created a Miro Template to help them with it. We realized sometimes it is not obvious how to use customer persona in the day to day business. So here are the main ways to make…
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Top Podcast for Impact Entrepreneurs
Listening to podcasts is a practical way to stay up to date on those topics we are interested in. This passive learning tool quickly became part of our day to day but we know it is difficult to find the right one among so many options. The Impactivs team has curated a list of amazing…
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6 Key Ingredients to keep in mind when selecting your Impact Incubator or Accelerator
The main goal of an entrepreneurship program is to make ideas or running businesses succeed, this is why they are so helpful for entrepreneurs, they provide them with the necessary tools, techniques, knowledge, and in most cases even resources to succeed. It sounds amazing, right? Well, many entrepreneurial programs are out there looking for applicants,…
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How to create User Personas
So you’re on a mission to make a positive social and environmental impact in the world and you have an idea or a solution. One of the first questions you’ll have to answer is who am i creating this new solution for? Gone are the days when engineers came up with an invention, knocked on…
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Key Take Aways From 4YFN 2022
This february of 2022, 4YFN (Four Years From Now) was proudly returning as the movement of people started to normalise after the big omicron wave. This year it was a bit special though as it started in parallel to the war in Ukraine. It was not being mentioned in every conversation but the overall energy… -
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Coaching vs mentoring: What it is and why it matters for impact entrepreneurs
Your support network is the solid ground from which you can propel yourself upwards. – Anna Barnes, How To Be Resilient It takes a lot of work and know-how to turn an idea into a business or to scale a business activity. Entrepreneurs can’t do it all. Their ability to find the right expertise at…
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What is your business idea real potential? Time to stop guessing.
Will your great business idea work? That’s the question every entrepreneur has before and when they get started on their business journey. Their intuition is one thing. But is it good? Is it enough? Answer is NO. But the good news is there is a path to find out. Lean Startup Author Eric Ries and…
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6 best books for impact entrepreneurs
Reading is always an opportunity to step back, explore new themes or dive into topics of interest. For this purpose, the Impactivs team have curated a list of excellent books around sustainability and entrepreneurship, to gift yourself or others for a great read. 1-Speed and scale by John Doerr Best-selling author, engineer, VC and pioneer… -
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What is Impact Entrepreneurship?
The Business of Business It was once said by a very influential, very ideological (then) young man: The business of business is business. Essentially, what that meant was that if a business just focused on turning a profit for its shareholders and providing employment for its workforce, it was doing all that it was supposed…
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Incubators, Accelerators, Mentors, Coaches… What you need on your impact entrepreneur journey and when
In 2018, around 3.3 million jobs were generated from 2.5 million new enterprises in the EU according to Eurostat. Entrepreneurship is a long and hard, albeit very fulfilling journey. It’s full of ups and downs, challenges and celebrations, and most importantly - countless moments when you ask yourself what the heck you should do next.…
