Posts Tagged ‘entrepreneurs’

HUB | WHEN: November 3rd, 6:30-8:30 PM | WHERE: The Hub SoMa, 925 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103 | DETAILS: Join Numi Organic Tea, Guayaki, Evergreen Lodge, and Pachamama Coffee Cooperative as they talk about their trials, tribulations and successes of funding at various stages of growth & development. Free event.

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INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS | WHEN: November 2nd, 6:00 – 9:00 PM | WHERE: Intersection for the Arts, 925 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 | DETAILS: Discover your inner cartographer in 3 hours! From the first human maps on cave walls to real-time, continually-updated, crowdsourced geodata, mapping has come a long way in the last 8,000 years. Maps are currently used in an endless number of ways by artists, designers, developers, scientists, urban planners, city officials, tourists, explorers, and more.

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HUB-MASTERS

HUB | WHEN : Every Tuesday, 6:30 – 8:00 PM | WHERE: The Hub SoMa, 925 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103 | DETAILS: HubMasters is a weekly professional development program focused on public speaking, communications and leadership. It is based on the proven ToastMasters International format. Everyone is welcome to visit the club anytime as a guest. Improve your public speaking skills for presentations, social events and in everyday conversation!

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Women in Renewable Energy

HUB | WHEN: October 13, 2011, 11:30 - 1:30 PM | WHERE: The Hub SoMa, 925 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103 | DETAILS: Blazing the Way to the Top! Notable female industry leaders will discuss their professional and personal development in the renewables field and how they are individually paving the way to a clean energy future.

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6 WAYS TO ROCK YOUR CAREER

HUB | WHEN: October 10, 2011 | WHERE: The Hub SoMa, 925 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103 | DETAILS: There’s no better time like the present to make progress on your career goals. In this information-packed workshop, you will learn six ways to advance your career, with author Trista Harris.

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THE IDEA FACTORY

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THE ATLANTIC | Depending on where you look, you could easily mistake the famed Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a robotics laboratory…or an architecture firm… or a computer-programming office…or maybe a hospital, Atlantic explains. The engineers, designers, scientists, and physicians who constitute the two dozen research groups housed there work in what may be the world’s most interesting, most hyper-interdisciplinary think tank. Researchers end up pollinating other projects with insights and ideas, within a hive of serendipitous collaboration.

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To Cultivate Innovation, Work like an Artist

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INNOVATION EXCELLENCE | Innovation calls for so much more than just hard work, Michael Hugos explains to Innovation Excellence. Artists have a lot to teach us about how to cultivate new ideas. Artists describe that ideas “come” to them from outside of themselves and what they do is give form to those ideas. Hugos describes four basic practices that the innovative business person learn from artists: immerse yourself, collaborate frequently, tolerate uncertainty, and look for simple patterns.

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