Gogme Social Enterprise: Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

Can social entrepreneurs make a difference in the world? Across the globe, social entrepreneurship is gathering momentum. Gogme Social Enterprise envisions the use of entrepreneurship and large scale collaboration to improve the lives of the working poor. We hope to create a highly transparent globally social enterprise collectively managed by entrepreneurs from all over the world.

Entrepreneurs to a certain extent are super heroes. Entrepreneurship brings out the best in a person. While Spiderman has superhuman strength and precognitive spider sense; Superman possesses inborn extraordinary powers; Entrepreneurs possess the power of creativity, determination, passion, decisiveness and vision. With great power comes great responsibility. Entrepreneurs who possess these great powers have a responsibility to make the world a better place for themselves and everyone else.

The power of entrepreneurship can eradicate poverty and hardship. It is a widely known fact that work is the best route out of poverty. Entrepreneurs create jobs and business opportunities. Entrepreneurship is a vital engine of economic growth, job creation and poverty reduction.

Objectives of Gogme Social Enterprise:

1. Promote Entrepreneurial Learning

Entrepreneurship is a constant state of discovery and some things in life you can only learn by experience. We believe the best way for a person to learn entrepreneurship is by being an entrepreneur. Through Gogme Business Networking platform, members are given the chance to make business decisions, participate in various business projects and collectively manage the social enterprises. Through this practical and direct approach of imparting business knowledge and skills, Gogme Social Enterprise will nurture a legion of entrepreneurs.

2. Create employment and skill upgrading

The working poor are a group of people living in poverty that Gogme Social Enterprise will concentrate in helping. Gogme Social Enterprise is keen on creating businesses that provide stable and productive employment for the working poor. Entrepreneurs of Gogme Social Enterprise throughout the world will collaborate to create new businesses and skill upgrading opportunities for these resilient individuals.  

3. Give assistance to the ultimate entrepreneurs: The working poor

The working poor are the ultimate entrepreneurs in many ways. It takes great ingenuity, perseverance and courage to get through each day on less than $2. Gogme Social Enterprise wishes to assist these ultimate entrepreneurs to create sustainable small businesses.

The keynote of Gogme Social Enterprise is its entrepreneurs’ participation in managing the social enterprise. The Gogme Business Networking Platform will provide the web 2.0 tools for collaboration and communications among entrepreneurs. Through daily blogs, entrepreneurs will know how their collective decisions have shaped Gogme Social Enterprise and the life of the working poor. Use your entrepreneurial skills and business knowledge to make a difference in the world!

The initiative is still in its infancy, there are no concrete plans for implementation as yet. However, feel free to contribute your suggestions and ideas. If you belong to a social enterprise or charity and you think that Gogme Social Enterprise can provide assistance, feel free to contact us.