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With Shana Dressler (Founder at Social Innovators Collective, Dir. at The Makers Institute).
Tue, Jun 09, 2015 @ 08:00 PM   $35   General Assembly West, 10 E 21st St, 4th Fl
 
     
 
 
              

  
 
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Founder at Social Innovators Collective, Director at The Makers Institute






About This Workshop

Most startup founders spend a significant amount of their own money to finance their venture's first-year operating costs. Startup funds end up being sourced from savings accounts, high-interest credit cards, or IOUs. In this class, you'll create a budget for both your company's operational needs as well as your personal living expenses. You'll learn about free resources, products, and services which will save you money as well as how much you'll need for essential living expenses. Having a roadmap of your expenses ahead will enable you to build and grow your company or organization without a fatal surprise that ends in game over.




Prereqs & Preparation

Bring a laptop with Excel or access to Google Docs, a calculator, and download Seth Godin's The Bootstrapper's Bible.




Takeaways

  • Develop a clear roadmap outlining the major steps needed to launch a business and the costs associated.

  • Create a draft budget for essential expenditures.

  • Understand a methodology for figuring out when you can leave your job to work full-time on your venture.

  • Review a list of startup fundraising ideas to minimize using personal funds.




About the Instructor





Founder at Social Innovators Collective, Director at The Makers Institute



In 2011, Shana Dressler founded the Social Innovators Collective with the mission to train and nurture the next wave of social change leaders to help them achieve measurable impact and financial sustainability. Since then she has been creating and leading workshops on funding and business development for social enterprises and nonprofits at General Assembly, the Social Good Summit, and social enterprise conferences at Harvard, Columbia, New York University, Brown, the School of Visual Arts, Rhode Island School of Design, and others. In 2014, she designed the curriculum for a startup business school designed to support 21st century entrepreneurial problem-solvers and creatives tackling the most pressing social and environmental challenges of our time.



A deeply committed social entrepreneur, Shana is widely recognized as the first person in New York to organize rigorous educational programming for social entrepreneurs in startup mode. To fill a notable gap in the lack of resources available, Shana co-created the Social Good Guides, a series of 20 guides focused on the essential small-business skills that would-be changemakers need to know and an 8-week workshop called Social Good Startup: Idea To Launch.

Shana is an Aspen Institute Scholar, a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, and a judge for The Webby Awards. In 2014 she became a Delegate to the United Nations Foundation Global Accelerator which brought together 100 of the world's top entrepreneurs to work together with policy leaders on global issues. Shana was recently honored by the World CSR Congress as one of the 50 Most Talented Social Innovators. In addition to frequent travel to far-flung places, Shana loves all things chocolate, and makes her way around New York on a midnight blue Vespa. You can follow her @shanadressler and @sic_org.





 
 
 
 
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