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Entrepreneurs are often called upon to help deliver the innovation required to ensure the world meets the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGS were approved in 2015 but progress towards them remains too slow. While the SDGs provide admirable aims and goals, they remain high level and provide little real insight about how they can and should be achieved. The KPIs that have been defined by the UN are measured at national and regional levels, making it difficult for entrepreneurs to genuinely engage in their deliver other than as a marketing tool. With digital technologies, this is compounded by both the cross-boundary nature of the issues the SDGs try to address and the role of ICT as a General-Purpose Technology (GPT) that cuts across all of the SDGs. ICT can therefore both hinder and help progress towards the SDGs. As a result, entrepreneurs can find it difficult to truly design solutions for SDGs or measure efforts to achieve them. Other methods such as the triple bottom line take a lot of effort and specialised knowledge to properly implement. This paper outlines a framework to assist Entrepreneurs working with digital technologies to understand their sustainability implications across the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) and to fine tune their solutions for sustainable development in a simplified manner, usable by entrepreneurs and tested across several countries.