Multistream

Entrepreneurship
Step 2 and 4

STEP 2: SHOW
ENTREPRENEURIAL
INITIATIVE

Have a high need to accomplish

something
Achieving tangible
and quantifiable
financial goals

Accomplishing
something that
may defy
measurement but
is significant and
timeless
Ex: pursuit of
happiness

A sense of confidence in
ventures
Confidence is
grounded in
themselves

Recognizes that
they need the
support and
cooperation of
other stakeholders

Muhammad Yunus

is a Bangladeshi social
entrepreneur, banker,
economist, and civil society
leader who was awarded
the Nobel Peace Prize for
founding the Grameen
Bank and pioneering the
concepts of microcredit
and microfinance.

Greeman Bank

microfinance organization
and community
development bank founded
in Bangladesh
makes small loans to the
impoverished without
requiring collateral

TRANISTION
PUSH
PULL

Transition
Often result from recognizing and
wanting to escape the materialist individualist character of the status
quo

GEORGE WILLDRIDGE
Successful managing director of an
import and export firm
Part of his job was to entertain his
clients with high stakes gambling
Soon, he was also addicted to
gambling and lost his job

Push
Multistream entrepreneurs include
intrapreneurs (a manager within a
company who promotes innovative
product development and
marketing.) or whistleblowers whose
efforts are not welcome in their
former organizations

GEORGE WILLDRIDGE
Since he lost his job, he had no
money
He contemplated suicide everyday
for six weeks
He then realized that the status quo
behavior (gambling) needed to be
changed

Pull
Multistream entrepreneurs from
friends or others for a new
organization

GEORGE WILLDRIDGE
Became a social entrepreneur when
Salvation Army asked him to set up
the Oasis Center for Problem
Gamblers in Auckland

Mission
to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and meet human
needs in his name without discrimination

STEP 4: MOBILIZE
RESOURCES

Importance of nonfinancial
relationships
They would build good relationships
with stakeholders that can reduce
the need for financial resources
Develop credibility

Leading herbal tea in the

United States

Mindful on mobilizing physical

requirements
They care about the effect of
operations on the ecological footprint
Working together with stakeholders
who are concerned about the
ecological environment

 Every year thousands of

bioneers gather for a
three day conference and
another 10,000
participants are beamed by
statelite
advances the great
transformation underway
in human civilization by
serving as a seed head for
game-changing social and
scientific vision, knowledge
and practices that honor
the genius of nature and
human ingenuity.

Sensitive to using resources

responsibly
They welcome input from key
stakeholders in their venture that it
should be more sustainable over the
long term and enjoy wider from the
community