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Things Every Tech Startup Needs to Know about Business Models

( 25 Steps to Business Success andBusiness Models andBusiness Plans andDifferentiated Value andEntrepreneur Skill Set andFuture Vision and Technology andGuerrilla Marketing andHuman Resources andIntellectual Property andInternet-- the Internet is Eating a Hole in the Global andIntrapreneurs and Intrapreneurship andLeverage andMarketing andNot-For-Profits andPersonal Business for Life, PB4L andPixie Dust andProduct Management andRules? There are no rules in entrepreneurship. andValue Differentiation and 'Pixie Dust' andValue Proposition andWhy Businesses Fail )

By Bruce M Firestone, B Eng (Civil), M Eng-Sci, PhD Abstract The Business Model is supplanting the Business Plan in many organizations. It not only describes the complete business ecosystem, it is a mechanism to discover profitable new relationships amongst stakeholder groups. The Business Model is more resilient than a plan and harder for competitors [...]

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How New Legislation Affects Federal Not-for-Profit Corporations

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Top Ten Things You Should Know About the New Federal Law Guest Article by Joel Secter For the first time since 1917, there is new legislation governing federal not-for-profit corporations, including those that are registered charities. The much anticipated Canada Not-for-Profit Corporations Act (“NFP Act”) finally came into force on October 17, 2011 after receiving [...]

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Big Video Shout Out to Brevis Gallery Artists & Artifex Sponsors

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Plus Introduction to Generation Q, Film by prototypeD.org Plus Introduction to Quantum Entity Trilogy How diverse, sustainable, interesting and vibrant a place would Ottawa be or any city if every one of our artists went on an Atlas Shrugged-inspired strike forever? We want to thank each of our Brevis Gallery Artists and our sponsors for [...]

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Radio Plays

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Some of the cast of the film Quantum Entity | We Are All ONE, Generation Q came together at prototypeD.org to record two scenes from Book 1 as radio plays. In Scene 1, you’ll hear superstar performance artist Nell reporting to business dynamo, the fabulous Ellen Brooks, that CEO, Damien Bell, leader of their upstart, [...]

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Artifex Schedule and Script

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How to Plan and Execute an Event Here is the schedule and script from the First Annual Artifex, Professional Artist Gala held at the National Gallery of Canada on June 20, 2012. This shows the level of detail you need to put into planning any event and, even then, things can and will go wrong. [...]

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Ringing Pine Medallions of Red Pine Camp

( Art and Architecture andArtifex andArtpreneur andDevelopment Economics and Entrepreneurship andEducation andEnvironmentalism andHealth and Wellness andLivable Cities and Neo-Urbanism andNot-For-Profits andPolitical Economy andQuantum Entity andSpirituality andThought Experiment andWork/Life Balance )

A Fable According to legend, the ‘Ringing Red Pines’ of Red Pine Camp on Golden Lake in Ontario are very old, very special trees that over their lifetimes have accumulated so much energy that they start emitting a vibrating ring tone. It is believed that simply being in close proximity to these trees or having [...]

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Exploriem.org, History and Future

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How Do I Beat The Competition

( 25 Steps to Business Success andBootstrap Capital andBootstrap Entrepreneurs-- Case Studies andBusiness Models andCompetition andCorporate Culture andCustomer Service andDifferentiated Value andEntrepreneur Skill Set andFranchise and Concession andInternet-- the Internet is Eating a Hole in the Global andMarketing andMentoring andNegative Cost Marketing andNegative Cost Value Proposition andNot-For-Profits andPersonal Business for Life, PB4L andPixie Dust andPolitical Economy andPre-selling, Finding New Clients, Keeping Existing Ones andPricing is an Art andProduct Management andRules? There are no rules in entrepreneurship. andSell andValue Differentiation and 'Pixie Dust' andValue Proposition )

Professor Carlisle Adams at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Engineering challenged me to train his second year class on how they can build world class enterprises in a tough competitive world and then sustain them. In an hour and a half no less. Case studies I use include: Rick Hunter’s Mont Cascade and Pro [...]

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Institute of Entrepreneurs

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Introduction Exploriem.org is launching the Institute of Entrepreneurs (IOE) this year. Why? To bring advanced research, education and mentoring to student entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs from self-capitalized and forward-looking enterprises across Canada and around the world. IOE provides access to research, education and a network of high achievers that you just can’t get anywhere else. The [...]

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Case Study: Digicel’s Decision to Enter Haiti Cell Phone Market

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(Undergrad Mid Term Exam) I reproduce below a case study we did on Digicel’s decision to enter the cell phone market in Haiti. It was a controversial decision by Digicel CEO Denis O’Brien to go into Haiti, by far the poorest country in the western hemisphere. Digicel already had 11 million customers in 32 other [...]

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Miss Buril

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For our recent Xmas party, we decided on a rather unorthodox gift for every invitee. In addition to making wine together at the Wine Garden (see: http://thewinegarden.ca where everyone took home 12 bottles!), having a four course meal, listening to live music, hearing a mercifully short speech from the host (moi), people also got their [...]

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Negative Cost Selling a Mobile App

( Asymmetric Information andBootstrap Entrepreneurs-- Case Studies andBranding andBuild and Hold andBusiness Models andCreativity and Value andFinancing andFranchise and Concession andHuman Resources andIntellectual Property andInternet-- the Internet is Eating a Hole in the Global andLaunch Clients andLeasing andLeverage andMarketing andNegative Cost Value Proposition andNot-For-Profits andPersonal Business for Life, PB4L andPixie Dust andPricing is an Art andRules? There are no rules in entrepreneurship. andSell andSocial Marketing andSocial Media andSponsorship andUser Experience andValue Differentiation and 'Pixie Dust' andValue Proposition )

Put Leverage in Your Biz Model What’s the most common reason a municipality or non-profit turns down a project? “We don’t have the budget for that!” There was a time not too long ago (circa post WWII) when municipalities thought of things like roads, sewers, power lines and water mains as investments; today, they think [...]

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