🌟 Introducing DWDG Weekly Digests 📅
👋🏽 Welcome to Doing Well by Doing Good, a newsletter and podcast series highlighting the companies aiming to be profitable with a purpose.
I want to share with you an experiment I want to try.
Every week there are new Doing Well by Doing Good companies, large and small, that are being funded, ones that are looking for new talent, and news related to these companies.
But where can we find all of this information in one place?
There are a bunch of new hiring lists and VC newsletters (e.g. Fortune Term Sheet, StrictlyVC, and many more) talking about the latest funding news in startups, so I wasn’t really sure if we needed another one of those.
At the same time, there are already some awesome sites, newletters, and podcasts on social enterprises and impact like Social Enterprise Alliance, Stanford Social Innovation Review, the Centre for Social Innovation, and Conscious Company among many others focused on social innovation broadly both for non-profits and for-profits and not specifically focused on the high-growth, high-impact, VC-backed social enterprises.
I often find myself sifting through newsletter after newsletter on VC fundings and high-growth stories, looking for the subset of companies whose products truly make a difference by solving the most fundamental needs (see below).
This got me thinking— could a weekly digest of Doing Well by Doing Good companies fill the gap?
Startups growing fast, making money for stakeholders, while making a difference through their products are the key segment I seem to never be able to find due to perhaps a long accepted premise…
From next week onward, I’m going to try this experiment: In addition to any topical Podcasts and Newsletters, I’ll share a dated DWDG Weekly Digest every Sunday. In it, I’ll focus on only 3 main topics
Latest in DWDG — any interesting news stories related to DWDG and updates from the last week on the DWDG Newsletter or Podcast
Recent Funding Announcements — DWDG companies with announced funding rounds in the past week and a few details on the company and the fundraising round
Job Postings — Open postings that are currently interviewing from DWDG companies who are actively hiring.
Look out for our first one this Sunday October 4th, 2020! Looking forward to sharing it with you, and hearing what you think!
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✌🏽 Anand