INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEURSHIP VIDEOS
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Kirby Schlegel (MBA ’03): Exit Strategy
Kirby Schlegel (MBA ’03): Exit Strategy
Laurier MBA alumnus (’03), and Founder & Chairmen of Schlegel Sports, Kirby Schlegel, talks about his experiences developing an exit strategy and some of lessons he’s learnt as a result.
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http://laurierentrepreneur.ca/video-resources/kirby-schlegel-mba-03-exit-strategy/
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Ray DePaul (MBA ’94): Mentorship
Ray DePaul (MBA ’94): Mentorship
Laurier MBA alumnus and former President & CEO of RapidMind Inc., Ray DePaul, shares his experiences with mentorship as an entrepreneurship, and some of the valuable lessons he has learnt along the way.
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http://laurierentrepreneur.ca/entrepreneurship/ray-depaul-mba-94-mentorship/
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Rahul Raj (BBA ’97): Mentorship
Rahul Raj (BBA ’97): Mentorship
Laurier alumnus (BBA ’97), Founder of MealExchange, and Director of Sustainability & Merchandising Innovation at Walmart.ca, Rahul Raj, shares some valuable advice about how to take full advantage of your mentorship opportunities. Rahul also shares some great insight and strategies to help evolve your mentor-mentee relationship into a mutually beneficial life-long friendship.
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http://laurierentrepreneur.ca/entrepreneurship/rahul-raj-bba-97-mentorship/
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A Typical Day for Laurier Alumnus Dana Fox
A Typical Day for Laurier Alumnus Dana Fox
Laurier alumnus (BBA ’81), and Founder & President of Clevru, Dana Fox, shares with us what a typical day is like as the CEO of Clevru.
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http://laurierentrepreneur.ca/video-resources/a-typical-day-for-laurier-alumnus-dana-fox/
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Ryan Smolkin (BBA ’95) – Poutine Dynasty
Ryan Smolkin (BBA ’95) – Poutine Dynasty
Courtesy of the Laurier Department of Communications, Public Affairs & Marketing Laurier alumnus Ryan Smolkin (BBA, ’95) talks about his poutine dynasty, and what he believes are the best ingredients for entrepreneurial success. To read the full interview with Ryan Smolkin in Laurier’s Campus Magazine, please visit: www.wlu.ca/CampusMagazine
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http://laurierentrepreneur.ca/video-resources/interview-with-entrepreneur/
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Mentorship – Cam Heaps (BA ’95)
Mentorship – Cam Heaps (BA ’95)
Steamwhistle co-founder Cam Heaps (BA Hons ’95) explains how mentorship plays a role in entrepreneurial success.
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http://laurierentrepreneur.ca/video-resources/mentorship-cam-heaps-ba-hons-95/
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Financing E*Trade Canada – Colleen Moorehead (BBA ’81)
Financing E*Trade Canada – Colleen Moorehead (BBA ’81)
Colleen Moorhead (BBA ’81), Founder and former President of E*Trade Canada, discusses the financing of E*Trade Canada in its early years.
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http://laurierentrepreneur.ca/video-resources/financing-etrade-canada-colleen-moorehead/
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David Ceolin (BBA ’89) – Do’s & Don’ts When Approaching Investors
David Ceolin (BBA ’89) – Do’s & Don’ts When Approaching Investors
Entrepreneur in Residence David Ceolin (BBA, ’89) shares three things he’s learned when approaching potential investors.
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http://laurierentrepreneur.ca/video-resources/dos-dont-when-approaching-investors-eir-david-ceolin/
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How Do I Get Traffic My New Website?
You have this awesome new online store, business website, or SaaS business, now how do you get people to your website? You built it, they will come! Right?? Wrong! They odd person may stumble across your site, and your friends my visit, but that is about it. We experienced this same dilemma with our SaaS [...]
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What is your sales cycle?
At StartLight Labs we’re on the hunt for our next (few) customers and thinking really hard about what our sales cycle and funnel looks, feels, and acts like. If you’re familiar with us, we’re building custom smartphone apps for large golf tournaments with tens of thousands of fans such as the LPGA and PGA. To [...]
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Hiring for a Startup
When you are first starting your company – whether it’s by yourself, with a co-founder or several, one of the last things on your mind is recruiting. You have a million other things on your mind ranging from ‘are we even equipped to run a business?’ to ‘how do we set up a bank account?’ [...]
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Take Chances, Make Mistakes, Get Messy!
You have an idea for a killer business. You think it’s genius, your parents act like they’re blown away by your intellect, and your friends think it’s brilliant,…but really, it’s just an idea. Until you have a business model and measurable evidence, you’re dreaming. What do you need to get from whiteboard to boardroom? Validation [...]
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Entrepreneurship, Innovation, News and Updates
Has Elon Musk started an intelligence revolution?
The greatest inventions have the power to change modern human history and they all start with two things in common. Revolutionary innovations have inventors and, more importantly from the perspective of making money, a 20-year exclusive legal rights document protecting the invention’s intellectual property – a patent. Recently, the course of patent history changed as [...]
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What Lies Beneath The Data?
I’ve always been a person who likes data. I’ll admit it. As a kid, I had to have the program at the airshow so I knew how much power each plane had and what it weighed. As an adult, I know exactly how much my car will cost over its life before I walk into the [...]
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3 Tips For Being a Successful Student Entrepreneur in Canada’s Tech Capital
As a successful entrepreneur in high school, I was excited for all that university had to offer. Better academics, bigger campuses, and a stellar startup ecosystem in Kitchener-Waterloo. Laurier’s BBA and Computer Science double degree program seemed to be the perfect fit for me. Despite my initial goal to focus on academics, the startup scene [...]