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Exploriem Announces NEW Startup Membership Program for 2013

Why Getting a Mentor is Key and How to Find One OTTAWA (January 3, 2013) – Exploriem announces today, a new membership program for startup entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and artpreneurs for the Greater Ottawa Area. For a small annual fee, entrepreneurs gain access to essential resources and services. Exploriem will be offering different levels of membership [...]

Exploriem.org, History and Future

IOE, Institute of Entrepreneurs

IOE5100, Advanced Business Models Exploriem.org’s Institute of Entrepreneurs presents IOE5100, Advanced Business Models for Entrepreneurs, Intrapreneurs and Artpreneurs, an MBA level course (For available dates and times as well as more information, please contact: Ms. Theresia Scholtes, tscholtes @ exploriem.org or @tclsholtes) Come study with Prof Bruce, a leader in designing and building business models [...]

U of O Wes Nicol 2012 Business Plan Competition Winners

Ottawa (March 6, 2012) – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Student entrepreneurs Alex Smith and Chris Spoke take first prize for their business plan for Liaise, a web and mobile platform that hosts interactive seminars and video chats, for a fee The Telfer School of Management and Exploriem.org are pleased to announce the winners of the University [...]

On Leadership (Continued)

(Prepared for Professor Matthew Archibald’s 4th year Seminar on Leadership Development: Friday March 9, 2012 from 1 to 3 pm in DMS 4140) For more on this subject, please refer to: Defining Leadership, http://www.eqjournal.org/?p=2668. Corporate Culture, http://www.eqjournal.org/?p=2656. The Entrepreneur Skill Set: A to Z, http://www.eqjournal.org/?p=1274. On Leadership, http://www.eqjournal.org/?p=1155. 10 Things that Entrepreneurs can Learn from [...]

How Do I Beat The Competition

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 [...]

Entrepreneurs Handbook II: Foreword

(Here is the Foreword to Entrepreneurs Handbook II, coming out in March 2012. Stay tuned.) Do you want to learn how to create significant value for yourself and your family in an enterprise that you own and control—value that can provide you the freedom and security to realize your lifetime goals? Then read this Handbook [...]

Institute of Entrepreneurs

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 [...]

Twitter Nation

A Primer on Twitter for Beginners Putting a Value on Your Twitter Account (With edits to March 31, 2012) In 1953, Arthur C. Clark predicted (in his novel Childhood’s End) that by the turn of the 20th Century, long distance would cease to exist. The Browser, Email, IM, My Space, Skype and others (Facebook, Twitter, [...]

Making Each Day Count

Set Goals, Internalize Them and Then Make it Happen We all know what went wrong during the ‘Year that Was’. People tend to remember the bad stuff. When I first started teaching again in the 1990s, I used to read each individual review of my performance by my students. What I found was that if [...]

Entrepreneur Sayings and Quotations

Some Quotes from Prof Bruce and Fellow Travelers to Help Entrepreneurs Along their Way 1. “No one can really save their way to wealth but you can invest your way there,” Prof Bruce. 2. “Entrepreneurs would rather ask for forgiveness than beg for permission,” Anon. 3. “Fall down seven times, get up eight,” Japanese Proverb [...]

Student Buys Her Own Home

With Just $4,500 It can still be done. That is, young people can still buy a home with little money down, pay less than they did when they were renting, participate in real estate returns (inflation, forced savings and imputed rents) and get a stake in their society through home ownership. Here is the story [...]