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Entries from December 2006

MBET Term 1 Complete!!

December 21st, 2006 · Comments Off on MBET Term 1 Complete!!

Wow… what a couple of weeks its been. Since my last post, on December 8th, I’ve managed to finish off four projects and write an accounting exam. Here’s how it went down: December 11th – Marketing: Market Assessment The goal of this project was to select a potential opportunity, and do the research necessary to […]

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Building a Personal Brand

December 8th, 2006 · 2 Comments

A few weeks ago, I went to a session called “Do You Have a Personal Brand”, put on by the Greater KW Chamber of Commerce, with Shirley Lichti from Marketing Magic. This was something I was interested in, and kind of had in mind when I launched my dandonovan.ca website. There were a number of […]

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Venture Capital Pitch Post-Mortem

December 7th, 2006 · 1 Comment

Check out this happy bunch!! Do we look relieved to have the pitch finished? To follow up on Tuesday’s post, our team didn’t win the pitch contest. We actually didn’t even make the top three. It’s too bad, because despite the grilling the teams took from the panel (made up of a couple real-life VC’s), […]

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Final Countdown – Two Weeks Left!

December 5th, 2006 · Comments Off on Final Countdown – Two Weeks Left!

Well, we just finished our last group presentation. This one was actually pretty cool, we had an opportunity to pitch a fictional product to some real venture capitalist’s. Despite the fact that no one really loved the product, MBET brought in a couple angel investor’s from Toronto to be part of the judging panel. It […]

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