Tuesday 29 April 2008

Creative Business Courses

The Generator has been working hard with Barbara Joy: Business Mentor from Waitakere Enterprise to put together a compact but full business course for the Generator residents. The first 2 sessions will kick off on the 3rd June, with the second being on the 10th June. The course has been designed especially for creatives to get the most out of the training. Gosling Chapman are delivering the course and it will be run from Waitakere Enterprise wonderful new home at Waitakere Central in Henderson.

"This is a very exciting time for the Generator which is nearing the end of its first year of assisting young designers establish their businesses" says Generator Director Roger Bateman. "We are very pleased that Waitakere Enterprise and Gosling Chapman have seen how important the Generator is to the future of the New Zealand Creative Industries. So far its been very hard work moving forwards but with the level of interest that is currently being shown in the Generator I hope that we will see further support from outside of Unitec will be forthcoming"

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"For me a business plan is a road-map to make your idea happen. Nothing more, nothing less. I’m not sure creatives should be talking about revenue streams and supply chains when they mean income and a network of friends and contacts in various creative fields. "I met this guy and he knows someone who can help out." That’s so underplayed and yet it’s so important to successful business. Terms like ‘supply chain’ are only so much alienating jargon.”

Hugo Manassei
Director, NESTA Graduate
Pioneer Programme

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"Barbara made business seem so relevant. And that made it immediately interesting to me. I really felt that I wanted to understand it better because it’s related to what I am doing"

(Generator resident post Waitakere Enterprise/Generator Business Courses)