BUS477
New Venture Planning - 4th Year Undergraduate Business Course
Class AgendasClass agendas and guest speaker bios are posted here. Use this forum to make suggestions regarding topics you'd like to see covered in class or otherwise share your comments about what we cover in class. Class #14 - Ken Spencer Competition - JudgesThere will be three judges on the panel this year, their bio's are as follows:
(please do not contact the judges prior to the competition)
Alex Pop Manager Subordinate Financing Business Development Bank of Canada
Class #14 - Ken Spencer CompetitionTuesday 8 December 2009
Class #13 - Elevator Pitches (if required)Tuesday 1 December 2009
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Class #12 - Elevator PitchesTuesday 24 November 2009
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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.
Class #11 - AgendaTuesday 17 November 2009
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Homework Given that we have a full agenda of presentations next week, there will be no in-class review of readings. I do, however, recommend the following reading to help you refine your final pitches and business plans:
Past Guest Speaker - Reg Nordman, RocketBuildersI am pleased to welcome Reg Nordman who will speak to the class about maintaining a personal brand and the imporntance to success in business and in life. Reg is the Managing Partner of RocketBuilders, a sales and marketing consultancy for high growth companies. He works with large and small companies such as, Asentus, Maximizer, Sophos, Microsoft Canada, and Research in Motion. Previously he has worked in direct and channel sales for major firms such as Unisys and Commodore.
Past Guest Speaker - Albert Leung, SFUDr. Leung will speak on the topic of turning research into business ventures. Albert M. Leung joined the School of Engineering Science, Simon Fraser University (SFU) in 1984 and is now Professor. Dr. Leung’s research interests are physical sensors and microfabrication process developments. He was the founding Director of the Institute of Micromachine and Microfabrication Research at SFU in 1993, and the Director of the School of Engineering Science from 1994-1997.
Class #10 - AgendaTuesday 10 November 2009
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Homework Read and come to the next class prepared to discuss:
Class #09 - Project Pulse ExerciseThis exercise is aimed at evaluating how things are going with your class projects. I would like to divide the class into four (4) groups of 2-3 teams. Each group should identify the top 3 challenges and top 3 things that were going well with the projects in their group. A spokesperson should summarize the findings for each group. Here is a summary of the exercise from 2008 to help guide your discussion: Challenges
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