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Mingle and Pitch – April 4th Nick Churchhouse

March 29, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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Our intern crew are pretty excited about pitch extraordinaire Nick Churchhouse   Nick is the Venture Manager at startup incubator Creative HQ. He hears ideas pitched at him every day, and helps prep startup founders to pitch for everything from a new employee to a tranche of seed capital. With pitches under his belt to company boards, government dudes, startup wannabes, startup success stories, and having given an impromptu song to a packed Wellington Town Hall, he's crashed and learned a few times over. Mingle and Pitch: What's it about? Understanding the power of persuasion, … [Read more...]

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Building a Framework – Using Lean Canvas

March 29, 2013 By 4 Comments
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If you had asked me a week ago, what's a lean canvas, I might have mistakenly said it's a cool piece of art?  Well, art is kinda close, in that we are looking at ways to plot and plan our enterprise direction without the cumbersome nature of a 500 page business plan which is indeed a true art form. The tool of using a lean canvas enables us to utilise a one pager that can plot out the most important parts of a business idea.  To test whether the idea can work and what key resources are needed to make it fly. Here are some of the tools Michael refers to, to get a clear sense of how the … [Read more...]

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Good Enterprise Workshop Reflections

March 28, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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We've now had three workshops as part of our Good Enterprise Workshop Series.  We are also glad to note that due to the wonderful support provided by many supporters including the JR McKenzie Trust, Wellington City Council, attendees and those who have contributed to our Pledge Me Campaign we have been able to provide free and/or affordable access to a range of members from across our community.  Here's some feedback we've been able to collect from our crew who have attended the first two workshops delivered by Viv Maidaborn "I loved understanding that ideas come from dancing on the edges … [Read more...]

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Good Enterprise Workshop Series

March 16, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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As part of their Social Entrepreneurship Intern Program at Enspiral, nine innovators have collaborated to organise the Good Enterprise Series. Presenters have been carefully selected for their particular expertise and knowledge in this field and a unique and highly valuable learning opportunity in the form of 10 workshops and 1 masterclass has been developed. We are looking forward to bringing Good Enterprise to Wellington and support the ongoing growth and development of self-sustaining social entrepreneurs for the benefit of our community and our country. Our Vision To host an … [Read more...]

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The Low Down on the Good Enterprise Workshops

March 16, 2013 By 2 Comments
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Our Good Enterprise workshops hosted at The Sustainability Trust – Te Aro A brief run down of what to expect at our workshops Topic What’s it about? What skills will you walk away with? Presenter Date What Does It Mean? - Am I a Social Entrepreneur? What it really means to be a social entrepreneur - the intersection of passion, assets, and market... An exercise of personal inquiry. Understanding of what a Social Entrepreneur isAligning your passions with your purpose Vivien Maidaborn Tues 19 March Sorting Ideas - Testing for viability Testing ideas to … [Read more...]

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Meet some of our amazing presenters for Good Enterprise

March 16, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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Vivien Maidaborn - What does it mean, am I a Social Entrepreneur? & Sorting for ideas, testing for viability Viv loves to work in places where change happens; where the best of business and community methodologies comes together to create social innovation. Vivian is passionate about working with people who are engaged in social innovation and enterprise aimed at healing the tough problems of our time, poverty, child health, clean water sustainable local economies. www.maidaborn.com   Michael Elwood Smith - Building a Framework  - Business Plans with … [Read more...]

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A Taster of what our Good Enterprise Presenters have on offer

March 16, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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Meet and Connect with some of our presenters and get a taste of what they will cover in their workshops Viv Maidaborn - What does it mean/Testing Ideas What it really means to be a social entrepreneur - the intersection of passion, assets and market.  An exercise of person inquiry. Testing ideas to understand its viability. Tools and ways to look deeper into a problem / situation and increase the chances you will design a solution that is impactful. Know how to ask the right questions. Michael Elwood-Smith - Building a Framework Run a lean canvas to create business plans … [Read more...]

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Hackers Wanted

March 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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Companies all over the world are struggling to find enough technical people and it is a great time to get into programming. At Enspiral we are passionate about helping people learn or improve their programming skills and are offering internships and paid opportunities on some exciting projects. You'll get to work on real projects and learn from people who have significant experience in the industry. If you have experience with Rails, JavaScript or front end development then awesome - if not, we'll teach you! Learn more at Enspiral on Thursday March 14th, 4pm - email … [Read more...]

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Come and learn about the GFN Challenge: Cambodia

February 4, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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A few of us have been working on a fantastic initiative to spend a week in Cambodia helping local charities and we're running a session in Wellington next Monday explaining what we're up to. The Good for Nothing (GFN) Challenge provides opportunities for talented professionals to come together and solve meaningful social problems. Professionals from all around the world meet on location for a week and form teams with local experts (from NGO leaders to social entrepreneurs) to solve a pivotal problem for a local organisation. We had a few Enspiral people who went to Cambodia in January for a … [Read more...]

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GAME OVER: Time to go.

January 24, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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At Enspiral we think about our planet a lot. All the wonderful things like the dire effects of our collective impact on the environment,  the complex systems that are contributing to the problems and the increasingly urgent need for humanity to produce and implement solutions. We’ve made a decision. It’s over. It’s time to leave. Instead of continuing our work developing better ways of working and launching social enterprises we’ve decided to build a rocket ship and leave the planet. The ship is being launched this Sunday 27th at 1.30pm at the waterfront outside Te Papa, … [Read more...]

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