Feb. 2 – Community Ladders’ (社区扶梯) founder speaks in Beijing, China about launching and running a social business
Spark:Her and FYSE.org present a seminar with Bill Varettoni: Designing and Running a Social Enterprise on a Super-Small Budget – A Case Study of Community Ladders (社区扶梯)
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About The Event
[Beijing] Spark:Her with Bill Varettoni: Designing and Running a Social Enterprise on a Super-Small Budget – A Case Study of Community Ladders
Thursday February 2, 2012
In this talk, Bill Varettoni will discuss the planning, launch, and first 15 months of operations of his social enterprise, Community Ladders. Even though the business is based in the United States, the talk will focus on experiences and lessons learned applicable to social enterprises in China and many types of businesses.
 Among the issues covered:
– Defining the problem
– Deciding on a social business versus a non-profit
– Dealing with skepticism and taking on personal risk
– Planning in stages
– Mistakes and breakthroughs
– Launching and running on a shoe-string budget (i.e. creating a cheap proof of concept)
– Setting expansion goals
About Bill Varettoni
Bill Varettoni is the Founder and President of Community Ladders. Leveraging a broad professional background in international development, small business advising, and government service, Bill created Community Ladders because he saw a persistent problem lacking a practical solution. Bill started as an entrepreneur at age 11, and has relished building things and solving problems ever since.
About Community Ladders
According to last week’s New York Times, “Nobody has figured out a way to consistently give large numbers of people reasonably priced financial advice across all areas of their life and to do so in an ethical manner.” Community Ladders was created 15 months ago to specifically address this problem.
Community Ladders provides very affordable, one-on-one, holistic financial planning services to Americans of all ages and incomes. A social business devoted to the long-term protection of consumers, we aspire to use our collective membership to negotiate for better and safer financial products. Community Ladders is a trusted partner in helping people build and maintain wealth and financial security.
About FYSE/ Spark:Her
FYSE identifies and supports exceptional social entrepreneurs implementing sustainable and impactful solutions. Our new program Spark:Her has the mission to inspire, empower and accelerate women social entrepreneurs. More info at www.fyse.org
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