Creating an impact business
If you want to change the world and have a taste for entrepreneurship, you want to create your own impact company!
This course will train you to become a social entrepreneur! It will take you from the idea to the project, detailing each structuring phase in the creation of your business. You’ll discover the ecosystem of support and assistance for the creation of impact businesses (incubators, sector-specific assistance, etc.) and the existing solutions for financing your projects.
1. Discover the subject
In these videos, we take you through the various stages involved in setting up an impact company. Florence Rizzo tells you about her journey to co-found SynLab (now Ecolhuma).
A word from an entrepreneur with Florence Rizzo, Co-founder and co-director of SynLab, episode 1
A word from an entrepreneur with Florence Rizzo, Co-Founder and Co-Director of SynLab, episode 2
A word from an entrepreneur with Florence Rizzo, Co-Founder and Co-Director of SynLab, episode 3
A word from an entrepreneur with Florence Rizzo, Co-Founder and Co-Director of SynLab, episode 4
2. Further reflection :
Discover the different ways in which entrepreneurship can generate social or environmental impact by reading this analysis article.
Article: Social economy and social entrepreneurship
Social and Solidarity Economy and Impact Entrepreneurship, with their different approaches, embody the will, energy and vitality of private players when they decide to tackle social and environmental issues.
3. Acquire the fundamentals :
Through two MOOCs, “Social entrepreneurship: from desire to project” and “Social entrepreneurship: drawing up a business plan”, discover social innovation, its issues and players, and acquire the tools to launch your impact enterprise in the best possible conditions.
Social entrepreneurship: from desire to project
Approx. 8 hours to finishLearn more
Social entrepreneurship: drawing up a business plan
Approx. 8 hours to finishLearn more
4. Taking action :
Join the Antropia ESSEC Start Up program
Antropia ESSEC is ESSEC’s social enterprise gas pedal. Its mission is to empower entrepreneurs by training them, equipping them and offering them support tailored to their stage of development. The Start Up program lasts 9 months and, after an initial prototyping phase, enables you to model your offer, validate your concept and draw up a social business plan.
Our other thematic training courses
Creating an impact business
Scaling up
Transforming an organization
Funding social innovation
Assessing its social impact
