Founders of WOMAN.com.au and Inspirationery: Lessons in crowd funding
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Find out how two entrepreneurs inspired other people to contribute to making their big dreams a reality.
Plus special guest Simon Rossi, General Manager at Uber who will talk about the Uber journey, the sharing economy, and what it means for small business.
About The Speakers
Simon Rossi, General Manager, Uber
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Simon’s professional experience includes time working in management consulting, regional leadership and general management across Europe, the US and Australia. Currently Simon is responsible for the development and growth of UBER in Australia. UBER, “Everyone’s Private Driver,” is a mobile app that reliably delivers you a private car in minutes so you can ride around your city in a safer, more reliable and cost effective way.
Prior to Uber, Simon was accountable for leading a team of enterprise sales and sales operations professionals across EMEA at Yammer - a start up out of San Francisco who is defining what an Enterprise Social Network is, and Yammers customers (including 80% of the Fortune 500) are re-defining what a modern working environment can be. Simon is/ has been active in the start-up communities in London, Melbourne and Silicon Valley. In his spare time Simon loves to travel the world, snowboard and build and lead disruptive businesses.
Robelen Bajar, founder of WOMAN.com.au
Robelen created a digital wedding, secured sponsorships and raised over $10,000 in crowd funding to launch a social enterprise. Learn how she did it, the amazing story behind the social enterprise and what it's really like to run a crowd funding project.
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Cassie Dewar, founder of Inspirationery
Cassie believes that doing good and doing what you love shouldn't be mutually exclusive. So she quit her job, created Inspirationery, and inspired nearly 300 people to contribute to making her dream a reality.
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Includes light refreshments.