The MBET Experience

When I was looking at this week’s schedule, all I saw was “CBET Grand Opening” on Monday afternoon, followed by “Accounting Exam” first thing on Tuesday morning. With those distractions, the Entre-Nous scheduled for this afternoon didn’t really register. Finally, after the accounting exam this morning, I got around to asking a classmate who was […]

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I’ve talked to quite a few potential MBET students, and many of you seem to have found my blog. This is great to hear, and I hope it has been useful!! Last summer, one of my classmates, Jon Chang, setup a website for our class at http://www.mbet4.com. It was a place for us all to […]

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Back in February, the Accelerator Centre hosted the “unofficial” welcome party for MBET with the Blueprint to a Billion event. Today however, was the “official” MBET kickoff party. The founder and directory of CBET, Howard Armitage, has returned from his sabbatical in Abu-Daubi and was able to attend, along with UW President David Johnston and […]

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Last Thursday, I attended a cool event at the Accelerator Centre, hosted by the Investment Industry Association of Canada. Ian Russell, the President and CEO of the association, was in town to talk about the state of Financing Small Businesses in Canada. Ian’s talk focused on four main issues: The funding gap that exists for […]

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Wow… it has been a busy couple weeks, as evidenced by the lack of blog posts lately. This week was very exciting though, as Jas, Jenn and I headed down to Toronto on Monday afternoon for the finals of the RBC Next Great Innovator challenge. Day 1: Monday, March 26, 2007 From the moment we […]

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Today we got handed back a short paper we submitted at the end of last term summarizing what we learned from our E-Business projects and the class presentations. For this projec, each team had to select two competing companies, and evaluate the e-business offerings and strategies of each. When I read my summary again today, […]

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Typically, when we discuss “the government”, the conversation usually takes on a negative, “what good do they do” attitude. This afternoon at the Accelerator Centre, the government and Communitech put on a great event – “Business, Science, Technology and You – Federal Programs to Help Your Business Succeed”. The goal for this event was to […]

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Back in October, Jenn recruited me to join her and Jas to submit an entry to the RBC Next Great Innovator challenge. The contest required us to tackle this challenge: “How will today’s teens influence the financial services industry in Canada? Describe an innovation, idea or concept that financial services should consider in light of […]

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I’m a little late with this post, but over reading week, the home of the MBET program, CBET (Centre for Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology) was moved from Needles Hall to the Accelerator Centre. The contrast is striking – Needles Hall is a typical old University of Waterloo building (and architecture is certainly not the source […]

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A couple weeks ago, we were assigned the following reading as part of our marketing course: http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_12/ilan/index.html. This article examines the assumption that production of software involves low marginal costs. As someone who has started a software company that is in the process of developing its first product, I found this article fascinating. The traditional […]

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