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This Wednesday evening from 6-9:30pm, Dave Pollard, who has helped many entrepreneurs to establish and succeed in their businesses, will lead a free workshop on Market Research: Finding and Filling Unmet Needs. The session will begin with a brief orientation to a proven 5-step process for world-class market research, followed by hands-on 'role-play' exercises designed to teach you how to ask the right questions of potential customers to identify unmet needs that are aligned with your personal…See More

Last Wednesday (May 23), Dave Pollard joined us as we continued with the process of pitching ideas to each other and playing with ideas to fill in gaps, identify challenges and ascertain viability. It was again a stimulating and enjoyable session, with the added bonus that it gave us a business idea to use as the focus of our next session on Wednesday May 30. Three people pitched their ideas, which were for:a social and material rewards system to create incentive for people to engage in…See More

This Wednesday evening from 6-9:30pm, Dave Pollard, who has helped many entrepreneurs to establish and succeed in their businesses, will lead a free workshop on Market Research: Finding and Filling Unmet Needs. The session will begin with a brief orientation to a proven 5-step process for world-class market research, followed by hands-on 'role-play' exercises designed to teach you how to ask the right questions of potential customers to identify unmet needs that are aligned with your personal…See More

This is a group for sharing our time, talent and resources to create enjoyable work for ourselves that is "part of the solution" rather than "part of the problem". The eventual aim is to create a network of individuals and businesses that produce useful goods and services that support Transition. We will hold our next session this Wednesday at 7pm in the common room of Grace MacInnis Housing Co-op at Adanac and Salsbury. Please join us! You can RSVP here or email me to let me know you're…See More

Last session was taken up with 5 of us pitching ideas for businesses or unmet needs and receiving ideas, information, observations and questions from the group. It was largely a brainstorming session, resulting in expansion of the field of possibilities for each idea. The ideas were: · Wholistic Health and Wellness Centre· Consulting to help businesses find efficiencies and synergies that emerge out of Earth-friendly practices· Urban Farming – Permaculture style· Connecting Immigrants with the…See More

Part of the Village Vancouver Economics and Livelihood Network.Details to follow.See More

This is a group for sharing our time, talent and resources to create enjoyable work for ourselves that is "part of the solution" rather than "part of the problem". The eventual aim is to create a network of individuals and businesses that produce useful goods and services that support Transition. We will hold session #4 this Wednesday at 7pm in the common room of Grace MacInnis Housing Co-op at Adanac and Salsbury. Please join us! You can RSVP here or email me to let me know you're coming:…See More

This is a group for sharing our time, talent and resources to create enjoyable work for ourselves that is "part of the solution" rather than "part of the problem". The eventual aim is to create a network of individuals and businesses that produce useful goods and services that support Transition. We will hold session #4 this Wednesday at 7pm in the common room of Grace MacInnis Housing Co-op at Adanac and Salsbury. Please join us! You can RSVP here or email me to let me know you're coming:…See More

I’ve heard from a reliable source that confusion is a sign that learning is taking place. What, then, might be some other signs? Occasional flashes of insight? Strange dreams and sleepless nights? Anxiety? A sense of movement or turbulence? I’m reaching here so I’ll leave it for now, but the point is that learning is not always a tidy or comfortable process. Even when children play (and learn), they set up scenarios involving tension and discord.Following Dave Pollard’s process of finding your…See More

Part of the Village Vancouver Economics and Livelihood Network.Details to follow.See More

This is a group for sharing our time, talent and resources to create enjoyable work for ourselves that is "part of the solution" rather than "part of the problem". The eventual aim is to create a network of individuals and businesses that produce useful goods and services that support Transition.We will hold session #3 this Wednesday at 7pm in the common room of Grace MacInnis Housing Co-op at Adanac and…See More