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DO1 - Financial sustainability

Since the social business is not based on donations, it must support the recovery of costs (Yunus et al. 2010). Thus, a balanced profit equation between cost and revenue is needed (Boons and Lüdeke-Freund 2013). Further, the startup's management indicated that, owing to their long-term commitment to investors and students, financial sustainability is necessary.

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Source paper: Unchaining Social Businesses - Blockchain as the Basic Technology of a Crowdlending Platform
Timestamp: 2026-07-16T00:00:00+00:00
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Design objective DO1: Financial sustainability

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This design objective is proposed by Unchaining Social Businesses - Blockchain as the Basic Technology of a Crowdlending Platform (Andre Schweizer, Vincent Schlatt, Nils Urbach, Gilbert Fridgen, 2017).

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Unchaining Social Businesses - Blockchain as the Basic Technology of a Crowdlending Platform

Studying a crowdlending social business, the paper derives 17 objectives for a blockchain-based crowdlending prototype and evaluates the prototype against a non-blockchain solution, deriving generic knowledge on blockchain applications for social business.

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