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Building a career with impact: they give you their best advice from their successes & failures! Rated 5/5 on Apple Podcast.
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How do you get involved with your work when you are a freelancer?

Mathilde Billeret
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Ce n’est pas parce qu’on travaille dans l’impact que tout est rose
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How to set up a social entrepreneurship project with little money?

Mariam N'diaye
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Sharing good travel tips with as many people as possible so that travel is accessible to all!
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How can you do business without raising funds in times of pandemic?

Marie Belile
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It is our will to keep our independence on the whole brand and to be master of our ethical choices at any time.
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How do you make sense of product prices when you are trading on impact?

Coline Burland
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Tomorrow we will no longer say I'm going to do my shopping but I'm going to pay my producers.
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How to raise funds to scale up when you are a SSE start-up?

Jean Moreau
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First prove by A+B that it works, and once you have a proof of concept, go and get funding to scale it up
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How do you make decisions when you don't want a leader?

Coralie Gaudoux, Makesense
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As a decentralised organisation, everyone at Makesense can make decisions on the issues that are important to them.
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How do you go about getting money, even when you think you're not good at it?

Camille, Partnership & Fundraising Manager at Ticket for Change
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You have to let go of asking for money & take it as a game.
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How do you sell a product that the general public is not yet ready to buy?

Heloïse, founder of Topla
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There are beautiful stories that are born with a bit of audacity.
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How to make a living as a self-employed person and make it meaningful?

Laetitia, founder of Cadre Noir
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I had no unemployment. I gave myself three months to earn a living.
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How to get paid while waiting for your project to have an economic model?

Julie & François, co-founders of Yuka
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You can find different tricks to make a living without being profitable at first.
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How do you sell as a social enterprise?

Samuel, co-founder of Coexister
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I have been told "Your prices are not very social". In this case, you have to educate people.
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How do you find a business model when it seems impossible at first?

Frédéric, co-founder of Simplon
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We left without a business model. Or even the desire to find one. At the beginning it was the Social and Suicidal Economy.
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How to start an expensive business with (almost) nothing in your pocket?

Augustin, co-founder of Lemon Tri
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We had €2,000 to spare. We needed €110,000 to get started.
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How to sell without apologising for selling?

Solène, founder of Creators for Good
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As long as you have the impression that selling is taking, you limit the impact you can have.
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What are the pitfalls to avoid when raising your first funds?

Frédéric, co-founder of Simplon
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We did two fundraising events, one of which was under bad conditions, for bad reasons.
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How can you balance your cash flow, your financing and your accounting when you are not an expert?

Samuel, co-founder of Coexister
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We started from scratch in the control of money.
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