BUS477
New Venture Planning - 4th Year Undergraduate Business Course
Welcome to BUS 477 - New Venture PlanningThis website provides information about BUS 477 for current and prospective students. It's also a place to share the venture planning resources we use in the course with former students and the wider business community. I will most likely be teaching the class again in the spring of 2012 at the Burnaby campus of Simon Fraser University.
Spring 2012Thinking about taking BUS477 next spring?
New Ventures BC - 2010 Seminar Series and CompetitionYou may recall me mentioning New Ventures BC in class. It's a business plan competition that begins with a series of seminars on topics that relate to entrepreneurial business. The seminar series begins on Tuesday 6 April. The speakers are excellent, the topics are relevant to all entrepreneurs, the downtown venue is convenient and at $100 for the series, it's a heck of a good deal! I strongly recommend this seminar series:
Videos are Up!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. Grades and Ken Spencer Competition NominationsI have now completed all of the grading for BUS477. By the end of the day tomorrow (Tuesday 1 Dec), I will send each student in BUS477 a personal note. This note will contain:
Please review this note carefully to make sure my records agree with yours. Class #14 - Ken Spencer CompetitionTuesday 8 December 2009
Class #13 - Elevator Pitches (if required)Tuesday 1 December 2009
Notes:
Class #12 - Panel FeedbackIn 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. Class #12 - Elevator PitchesTuesday 24 November 2009
Notes:
Homework Tonight is our last class. You are free... and I'm the one with the homework. Please take 10 minutes to help me wrap-up:
I hope you enjoyed BUS477. It was a pleasure to have been your instructor. I sincerely hope that you got what you hoped to out of the class and the you will have the opportunity to apply what you learned in BUS477 throughout your career.
Yes, I will now be your Facebook and LinkedIn friend!
Here is the order of team pitches. Please make sure I have your correct team, company name and product:
Past Guest Panelists for Final Pitch Competiton - 2009Jackson'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.
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