Posts Tagged ‘entrepreneurs’

[HUB WORKBENCH] Strategic Business Design for Growing Social Enterprises

HUB | WHEN: Feb 27th, 5 - 6:30 PM | WHERE: 925 Mission St | Details: Craft your company’s vision with specific, measurable goals.  Design and foster a culture that aligns with your values.  Optimize operations.  Create and manage appropriate financial systems.  Make a marketing plan that works for you. Participants will leave the workshop with enough guidance to begin to plan and implement a strategy for their business to help grow their organization to be able to deliver more of their goods and services and do it in a way that keeps them healthy and joyful.

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[HUB Workbench] How to Hack Crowdfunding

[HUB Workbench] How to Hack Crowdfunding

HUB | WHEN: Jan 30th, 5 - 6 pm | WHERE: 925 Mission St | Details: About the class: Crowdfunding is the pooling of funds from the people who have passion about your idea. This often includes giving back a reward or “perk”. Crowdfunding is not a new concept (for example, did you know the Statue of Liberty was crowdfunded?), however with the help of new technology, crowdfunding is becoming the go-to way for people to get their ideas off the ground. But how does it work? And how can it work for you?

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[HUB Workbench] Heroic Imagination Project - Courageous Leadership Workshop

[HUB Workbench] Heroic Imagination Project

HUB | WHEN: Jan 25th, 10:45 am - 5:00 pm | WHERE: 925 Mission St | Details: We’d all like to think we would, but 40 years of social psychology tells us the odds are against virtually all of us acting on our values in challenging circumstances.  Come learn Courageous Leadership: Learn the psychology of ethical decision-making in challenging situations and retrain your brain to consistently do the right thing under pressure.

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[HUB Workbench] WordPress for Creative Professionals

[HUB Workbench] Wordpress for Creative Professionals

HUB | WHEN: Jan 23rd, 5-6:30 pm | WHERE: 925 Mission St | Details: About the class :How can I setup a website in 5 minutes? How can I create a professional portfolio and embed media into my site (photos, videos, audio, gallery)? If you want to have an awesome site, WordPress will help you get there. WordPress is the most popular publishing platform – in fact, over 20% of new domains registered are running their sites on WordPress. Seriously. Musicians, photographers, creatives, magazine, and small business owners are all running their sites on WordPress – and you can too.

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[HUB Workbench] Research Like A Journalist: Tame Your Information Flow And Find The Information You Need

[HUB Workbench] Research Like A Journalist

HUB | WHEN: Jan 16th, 5-6 pm | WHERE: 925 Mission St | Details: About the class: How can I find just the information I need on the web and apply this to my job? What are shortcuts to read less and learn more? This class will enable you to write more substantial, well-sourced and timely articles about issues that matter and improve the speed and the quality of your journalism. The same principles and techniques can be applied to other professions.

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[HUB Workbench] BLab + HUB: Doing Better Business: Tools & Community for Impact

BLab: Doing Better Business

HUB | WHEN: Jan 16th, 1 - 2:30 pm | WHERE : 925 Mission St | Details: About the workshop: Ever wonder how we can tell the difference between a good company and what is just good marketing? Most of us want to support good brands that are doing good for people and planet. But we’re also very skeptic of what companies are claiming. How can we know for sure?

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April-Events

Each month at 5M, there are classes, workshops, and events where you can access new ideas, build your community, connect with diverse groups, and discover new opportunities. In | APRIL | get the “skinny” on lean manufacturing with SFMade, learn new “how-tos” with Skillshare and Hub, hack ideas for a more creative economy with GAFFTA and Hub, and more…

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Creative-Currency

HUB | WHEN: April 27th - 29th | WHERE: The Hub SoMa, 925 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103 | DETAILS: Friday, Saturday, & Sunday, April 27-29th, The Hub in partnership with GAFFTA will host a large-scale, multidisciplinary hackathon centered around developing creative solutions to build the new economy.

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Hub-Skillshare

HUB | WHEN: April 25th, 7:00 – 9:00 PM | WHERE: The Hub SoMa, 925 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103 | DETAILS: Join us for the twice monthly Skillshare night! Skillshare Night brings Skillshare’s budding community together to share not only skills but also connections and conversation. Choose from a variety of classes this evening: Making Beautiful Stories; Interviewing, Editing + Audiojournalism;…

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Upward-spiral

HUB | WHEN: April 19th, 6:30-9:00 PM | WHERE: The Hub SoMa, 925 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103 | DETAILS: Please join us for this highly interactive session, where we will practice applying six principles to help reverse downward spirals and mobilize upward spirals in relationships, teams, organizations, new ventures and communities.

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