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"There's a new way to improve the earth," writes sociable businessperson Michel Gelobter. It's called the trim startup - but it's not only for new endeavors. It's been revolutionizing businesses of all ages for years, and Gelobter shows it can have the same transformative impact on the sociable sector. Traditionally, an entrepreneur develops a detailed plan, sees money to fund it, and then pursues it to its finish. But conditions can transform greatly at any point - you can end up locked into an activity predicated on now-obsolete assumptions. The trim startup is all about agility and versatility. Its mantra is "build, strategy, learn": create small, experimental initiatives, get real-world responses about them quickly, and use that data to recognize what works and discard what doesn't. And test even more. Gelobter explains just how nonprofits and advocacy organizations can change lean startup principles with their unique circumstances. He offers dozens of real-world good examples: an established homelessness group whose data evaluation showed that lowering a single overlooked metric could get a lot more people off the street; a technology-based literacy startup that used lean techniques to reach two million children in two years when a more traditional program took 15; and many more. The standard strategy wastes time and money - the trim startup guarantees to help sociable sector organizations vastly raise the good they are doing.
