[OSList] entrepreneurs in open space

Wed May 1 14:24:56 PDT 2013

A postscript to this event report:

I got a voice mail last night from one of the participants. She said 
that several of her cohorts and she had decided to use a "pop-up" store 
in downtown to share store space together. Without the help of the OST 
Saturday, she said, "we never would have figured it out."

                        :- Doug. Germann

PS: a pop-up store is a presently vacant store front that the City has arranged to make available to start ups for a few
months or so; thus the stores "pop up," run for a while, and perhaps gestate a continuing lively business in town.

On 04/27/2013 09:59 PM, doug wrote:
> HO--
>
> Beautiful!
>
>             :- Doug.
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> On 04/27/2013 08:43 PM, Harrison Owen wrote:
>> When an Open Space really flies time periods are irrelevant, and the 
>> length
>> is a matter of perception and convenience. Under the best of 
>> circumstances,
>> nobody notices, nobody cares -- they just fly! And that is 
>> where/when/how we
>> should all be, I think. It is not a "process," "tool," "method." It is
>> simply us be fully what we are...human! Love it!!
>>
>> Harrison
>>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org
>> [mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Michael M
>> Pannwitz
>> Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2013 7:03 PM
>> To: 76066.515 at compuserve.com; World wide Open Space Technology email 
>> list
>> Subject: Re: [OSList] entrepreneurs in open space
>>
>> Dear Doug,
>> I love your report.
>> Actually its reports like yours that make my day, or night.
>> And bringing good food seems a perfect sign of great management, 
>> supportive
>> community, shared leadership and, of course, Vision. The eagle, bear, 
>> mouse
>> and deer all in place.
>> While they had a productive time and observed "when its over, its 
>> over", I
>> suspect that things would even get better if "faculty and advisors"
>> would not stay out but get in... and some more of the "community people
>> bankers and business leaders" joined (were invited?).
>> I have experienced groups that seemed not to need the time available 
>> in the
>> groups but spent the time not in the groups in amazing ways (started 
>> a new
>> venture)... afterwards I was glad I did not intervene and thinking on 
>> this I
>> decided not to interpret all this stuff, much too complex and maybe 
>> none of
>> my business, and instead let selforganisation do its stuff... and 
>> stick to
>> the announced schedule.
>> I wonder why you say its "another one for the books".
>> To me it appears to be unprecedented, unique, probably not exactly
>> reproducable, a wonder.
>> Lets have more of them.
>> Greetings from Berlin
>> mmp
>>
>> On 27.04.2013 23:59, doug wrote:
>>> Friends--
>>>
>>> Report on a half-day OST in Northern Indiana, held today:
>>>
>>> A local women's college has a program to help low-income women become
>>> entrepreneurs. It runs 6 weeks and has as faculty many community
>>> people, bankers and business leaders. I convinced them from the start
>>> that OST should be an integral part of the curriculum. This spring was
>>> the 4th class. This spring we had two classes running concurrently,
>>> one meets in the evening, one during the day. Today was the first time
>>> both classes had met each other.
>>>
>>> We gathered at 8:30, scheduled the opening for 9:00 and actually
>>> started at about 9:10. Village marketplace was done by 9:40. There was
>>> so much good food they brought to share that it was 8:57 before they
>>> gathered for their first groups! We scheduled to run to 1:00. So we
>>> did 3 sessions of 1 hour each, with the closing circle at 12:40.
>>>
>>> There were 21 of the 23 students there, and there were 4 faculty and
>>> advisor folks too, a total of 25. The faculty and advisor people
>>> stayed out of the sessions for the most part.
>>>
>>> There was a healthy amount of bumble-beeing and butterflying, lots of
>>> banter and laughter.
>>>
>>> 14 topics were posted, and they elected to combine 3 into one session.
>>> Theme: "Issues and Opportunities in Our Businesses, Our Lives." Topics
>>> included:
>>> Managing business risk
>>> How do we sell our products?
>>> A name for my business
>>> Juggling home, family & business
>>> How do I connect with people
>>> Finding a business location
>>> The three that were combined: Funding for the future; How do we invest
>>> in our business?; Connecting with business/financial partners Ideas?
>>> Marketing...outside the box!
>>> Stepping out
>>> Having a business at home, or opening a store?
>>>
>>> What I have learned from these folks is the shorter sessions (1 hour)
>>> work better for them. Perhaps their needs and questions are more
>>> discrete at this stage in their entrepreneurial adventure (many have
>>> not actually started their businesses, they are just learning about
>>> business plans and payroll taxes and the like). Maybe they are still
>>> unsure about themselves and not sure even what questions to ask-maybe
>>> the questions (or the answers) get deeper and have more permutations
>>> after they have actually been doing their businesses for awhile (I
>>> have also been doing retreats for graduates of this course with longer
>>> sessions and a day-long format, and they sustain the conversations for
>> longer times).
>>> Not sure why shorter sessions would serve them better, but I saw
>>> groups breaking up before the 60 minutes was up at least twice, maybe
>>> three times, and at the end, the conversations seemed to be running
>>> down so I went up to them after about 50 minutes and asked if they
>>> were done and wanted to move into closing early, and they said yes.
>>>
>>> A lot of emotion in the closing circle--even passing of tissues!
>>>
>>> Another one for the books. Of course it worked.
>>>
>>>               :- Doug. Germann
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