The videos of your team elevator pitches and the feedback from our guest investors is now available under class videos.  

Congrats to you! 

I feel every team should be proud of these.  I encourage you to share your "pitch" with your parents, your friends and potential employers.  If you plan to participate in any other business plan competitions, I strongly encourage you to review these in detail with your advisers.

Tuesday 8 December 2009

In our final class, I gave 1,000,000 BUS477 dollars to each of our six guest investors.  Based on the presentation alone (e.g. no business plan or other prior knowledge of the business), they could invest in up to 5 of the opportunities.  How they chose to allocate their cash was left up to them.  Unfortunately, their cash evaporated after class, so there was no incentive to not invest the funny money I gave them. 

Jackson's Dragons Den

As your instructor, it's my role to assign you a grade for your final oral presentation for BUS477. 

I feel strongly that grades are only part of the learning experience, however.  To that end, I have called a few favors and tapped the heartstrings of several professionals from the Vancouver angel and venture capital community and assembled an expert advisory panel for our last class.