Social Entrepreneur: Conscious Companies | Benefit Corporations | Impact Investing

There’s an old saying that has been attributed at different times to Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln (neither of whom said it.  “Success is going from failure to failure without losing momentum.” For any entrepreneur, especially social entrepreneurs, the ability to balance tenacity with humility is key. An entrepreneur listens carefully, designs a minimally viable product, tests it in the marketplace, pivots and then starts again. In this way, we learn quickly and make progress. No one has illustrated this principle better than Curt Bowen. In this interview you’ll hear Curt tell the story of several iterations of Semilla Nueva. They are working on the problem of malnutrition in Guatemala, which has the fourth highest rate of malnutrition in the world. Key quotes from the interview: “There’s this really beautiful relationship between tenacity, humility and instinct. You have to have all three of those pieces working together. Because all three of them are what is necessary for you to go from mistake to