The MBET Experience

Wow, I am on a roll posting today. Something I heard in a presentation skills class that I took a while back was that the best presenters are the ones who tell the best stories. That theme came up again today. Our speaker talked about entrepreneurs and story telling. You need to have a compelling […]

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According to this afternoon’s speaker, the two most important things to define when starting your business are: 1) The Customer 2) Your Value Proposition While this may seem simple, not having a clear definition of these two things is one of the biggest causes of failure for a startup business! Know your customer, and what […]

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Click here for an article from Canadian Business about the MBET program. This is a couple years old, but interesting. I really like the line: “Students say they spend an average of 12 hours a day in their basement classroom. They attend lectures from nine to five and work late into the evening on assignments […]

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“They say that entrepreneurs never see problems, they only see solutions.”

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A couple of months ago someone showed me this website, the Million Dollar Homepage. We are talking about “screen real-estate” in E-Business class, and how the screen can be broken up into different areas, each of which can then be sold to advertisers. I immediately thought of the Million Dollar Homepage – the creator went […]

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My friend James just sent me a link to his friend’s blog, and a post titled “Best Job Description Ever”. Check it out here, it’s pretty funny. I’ll have to post job descriptions like that when I’m running a company.

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Earlier today, just after we finished writing our law exam (which I think went alright), our practicum project groups were posted. I don’t think I’ve talked about the practicum much yet. This is our major project for the year, the MBET equivalent of a thesis. The general idea is that we get involved in the […]

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Wow… October’s over. What a wild month. And we’re in the middle of a crazy-busy week. Eight hours of solid class yesterday and today, each with a TON of reading. Made for a rough E-Business class today, since there were a lot of people (myself included) who did not have a chance to read the […]

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Every week, there’s at least one or two things that I pick up from this program that really make me think of things in a different way. Here’s an example from our Strategy reading this week. The article, “Marketing Malpractice” quotes Harvard professor Theodore Levitt: “People don’t want to buy a quarter inch drill. They […]

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Wow… I actually got comments on a post! I like it!! In case you don’t read the comments, Martin said: “I think that the #1 role of the CEO, far more than the other roles is to be the leader and the closer when it comes to Sales and Marketing.” This got me thinking and […]

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