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DramatisPersonae.org is a Personal Web Site of Professor Bruce M. Firestone dedicated to teaching, research, writing and entertaining in the fields of entrepreneurship and development as well as political economy. It is a mix of science, social science, business, economics, geography and urban design. This PWS is geared at collecting the writings and teachings of Dr. Firestone over a lifetime of education, experience, mentoring, consulting, teaching and doing.


Emily Carr, Sunlight in the Forest, 1912
Ottawa Art Gallery
(Firestone Art Collection)
Sample Images of the Firestone Art Collection (Group of Seven)

Original Manuscript on Jack Shadbolt by O. J. Firestone:
Part I Part II Part III

Listen to a Podcast Interview recorded during Round 3 of the
Stanley Cup Finals between the Buffalo Sabres and the Ottawa Senators
in May 2007:
Dr. Bruce M. Firestone, Founder, Ottawa Senators
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Bruce Firestone's Entrepreneurship and Architecture Blog:

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Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada:

Entrepreneur-In-Residence

ADM3396 Seminar in Administration: Entrepreneurialist Culture- How to Bootstrap Yourself to Business Success in the 21st Century. Brochure and Front Page. Wednesdays from 4 pm to 7 pm. Video of Dr. Bruce Firestone's Introduction to Entrepreneurship (6 minutes).

New in 2009: Video Case Studies

Find out if you have what it takes to become an entrepreneur- take the Entrepreneurialist Culture Quotient Test. ECQ (ns).

Think about the life of an entrepreneur. Here is a quote from a Chilean entrepreneur who knows the value of hard work and understands that above all else, an entrepreneur must be able to sell: ideas, products, services. He or she must be able to lead by example.

"I've been an entrepreneur since I was born (in Chile). It is very simple, in Chile...you don't sell, you don't eat! I tell my clients...timid entrepreneurs have skinny kids! So don't take 'no' for an answer. Go out there and Sell, Sell, Sell," Chris Castillo, Professor, SME Program, Algonquin College School of Business, Ottawa, Canada, December 2008.

How can you really learn to be an entrepreneur? The only real way is to Learn By Doing 'it'. Students in ADM3396 will start their own businesses, run them during the course and make real money. To find out more, check out: LearnByDoing

Entrepreneur In Residence: Program Development

U Ottawa Homecoming Speech Powerpoint Presentation : September 2006
U Ottawa Homecoming Speech Full Text: September 2006

Entrepreneurship In The Age Of The Internet

Lost Knowledge: Are We Losing the Skills of the Greatest Genration Ever?
Entrepreneur-In-Residence Media Announcement:

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Francais

What would an Undergrad Concentration in Entrepreneurship Look Like?

Essays On Life- Volume I (htm file) Essays On Life- Volume I (PDF file)
Teaching Philosphy
How to Write a Masters or PhD Thesis

UOttawa Entrepreneurs Club Elevator Pitch Competition
UOttawa SOM Business Model Competition* Report on 2008 Business Model Competition and Wes Nicol Competition
UOttawa SOM Wesley Nicol Business Plan Competition*
UOttawa Business Communications Competition

Presentation Guidelines

Marking Grid

Student Management Consulting in Association with the Telfer School of Management
ACE Student Entrepreneur Competition
O. J. Firestone Art of Innovation in Entrepreneurship Prize
UN Day of the Entrepreneur
More National Holidays in Canada and the USA: Socialization of Leisure Time
UOttawa Entrepreneurs Club ELLE Wine and Cheese
UOttawa Entrepreneurs Club Business Dinner
UOttawa SOM Alumni Event, Toronto Board of Trade, October 26, 2006: "Getting the Business Model Right (so that the Harder you Work, the More Money you Make and the Harder it is for your Competition to Copy you)"
UOttawa Entrepreneur's Website!

* Please note: these competitions are open to submissions for not-for-profits and/or social enterprises; they require business models as much as for-profit enterprises. The productivity of charities is often measured by how much of the funds they raise are used in supporting the activities they espouse and how much are 'burned' in administration. The Salvation Army, for example, is noted for the high percentage of funds they raise that actually gets to the 'streets' to help persons in need.



You Tube Videos

Value of Lunar Real Estate- A Thought Experiment

(Best viewed using IE)

("Did you hear the one about the new restaurant on the Moon? Great food but no atmosphere," Anon.)
U Ottawa Speech March 13, 2007: Execution Counts, Ideas are not Enough Moon Shot Redux: A Thought Experiment on YouTube
Birds Nest: A Poor Man's CN Tower and How to Dock a Helium Filled Airship Are People Getting Dumber?
Bring Back the Senators: Original Video (1990) with Brian Smith, CJOH Sports Broadcaster, as Host (Bruce Firestone, Cyril Leeder, Randy Sexton, Jim Durrell, Bowie Kuhn, Bruce McNall, Denis Potvin, Frank Finnegan, Paul Dick, Charles Hamilton, Gino Rossetti, Scotty Bowman, Michael Wilson) Ottawa Senators Opening Night October 1992: CBC TV Introduction


NHL Awards Franchises to Ottawa & Tampa Bay: TSN Coverage

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DramatisPersonae.org Startup and Enterprise Coaching

DramatisPersonae.org Planning and Real Estate Consulting Services

 


The Environment-A Solution?

Full Blog Entry

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Urban Catalyst: A cheaper version of the CN Tower for downtown Ottawa!

Birds Nest

PPT

Music Part 1

Music Part 2

Are People Getting Dumber? YouTube
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Scarlet Glory, Gatineau Park
(Gordon Harrison)

"I was fortunate to be asked to attend and speak at the opening of the new Gordon Harrison Gallery in Ottawa, Canada. In my work as a professor and entrepreneur, I realize how important having a diverse arts community is to the development of a city; interesting, creative people like Gordon Harrison attract and encourage other creative people to live in the area and to do what they do. This attracts entrepreneurs to the area who start new enterprises and create more jobs and also make the city a more interesting place to live and work in. It creates a virtuous circle. It takes a lot of courage to start a new Gallery and to exhibit works of art; everyone is an art critic but seeing Gordon's work is like a celebration of Canada-- its tolerance, its tranquility and its beauty. Bravo, Gordon and best of luck to you and Gallery Manager Phil Emond," Dr. Bruce M. Firestone, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Founder, Ottawa Senators, November 2007.

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Faculty of Engineering and Design, School of Architecture, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada:

ARCC 4500 Design Economics-- Running an Architectural Practice in a Complex Environment. More about the course on:
Front Page. Fall 2006. Mondays 0830 to 1130. Room 204 AA.

ARCU 4400 City Organization and Planning (Urban Studies)-- a study of Enterprise of the City including Urban Economics, Urban Design, Real Estate Development and the Sustainability of the City. Considers the neo-urbanist view that the design of the city, at the micro and macro levels, can be both environmentally and economically sustainable. Focuses on understanding the economic, technological, environmental and political forces that are creating the built form of the city from the end of 19th Century to the beginning of the 21st Century and beyond. Micro analysis includes application of Highest and Best Use Principal to development of individual land use parcels. (History/Theory Elective Course for Architects. Other disciplines welcome.) Prerequisite: permission of the lecturer or ARCH 1000 and ARCH 2300. Lectures are once per week for three hours. Front Page. Winter 2007. Mondays 0830 to 1130. Room 204 AA.

78.392 (Real Estate and Development)-- Urban Design and Urban Economics, City-State Development, Nimby'itis, Zoning, Land Use Planning and Property Rights, Project Analysis and Rates Of Return. More about the course on: Front Page.

 

 

Cyril M Leeder Prize in Urban Design: Landing Page



Exploriem.org, Professional Entrepreneurs and Intrapreneurs Organization, Ottawa, Canada

Saragasso City-- a thought experiment in City-State design.

EQ Journal Blog

Decision Making and Other Tools
Coin Flipper!
Dice Roller!
Random Number Generator!
Password Generator!
Unit Conversions!
3000 Year Calender!
Time Zones!
Minute Timer!

 

 


Online Mortgage Calculator (For Canadian Mortgages)

Canadian Mortgage Tables

I posted some mortgage factor* tables on my web site for your use (just click on the link above). You can use them to calculate weekly, bi-weekly, semi monthly or monthly Canadian mortgages.

Note that Canadian and US mortgages are calculated slightly differently; Canadian mortgages are compounded semi annually and not in advance. When you use Microsoft's Excel application to calculate mortgages you have to specify '0' for Canadian mortgages and '1' for US mortgages.

Here is an example:

Let's say you have a $100,000 Canadian mortgage and you have decided to pay monthly installments of principal and interest. Assume your bank loans you the money with an interest rate of 7.5% and an amortization period of 20 years. Then your mortgage factor (see p. 4) is 7.986021 which means you are paying $7.986021 per $1,000 of loan amount per month or $798.60 of principal and interest on this mortgage every month.

Now if you were to pay twice a month instead (semi monthly), your mortgage factor would be 3.986886; that is, you would make payments twice a month of $398.69 each.

(*You may occasionally see the mortgage factor referred to as a 'capital recovery factor', an older term. The Mortgage Factor tables are reproduced from my copy of the Ontario Real Estate College's Encycolpedia, a very useful reference book for Real Estate professionals.)

Google Maps
Feng Shui Number Generator: generates a number (price) that always sums to a '9' for a range of numbers (prices). Believed in some cultures to be a 'lucky' number. Uses modular arithmetic.

Map of University of Ottawa
Map of Carleton University
Partners' Page
Entrepreneurship Track at Carleton University: courses, lectures, coaching, mentoring and competitions you should know about.

Entrepreneurship Co-op Program and LearnByDoing.ca

Magic from a Hat Lecture Series presented by Carleton University's Eric Sprott School of Business- Lessons in Entrepreneurship from the Front Lines (by Prominent Entrepreneurs).

Wes Nicol business plan competition.
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Eric Sprott School of Business
, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada:

BUSI 3600 Small Business Management- Case studies of SMEs and preparation of student business plans for their own business start-ups.

Small Business Management Annex

Copyright. Dr. Bruce M. Firestone, Ottawa, Canada. March 2009.



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Ottawa Real Estate News

Helping you find the right real estate opportunity in Canada's Capital City


Manchester.ca


Blue Heron Storage Corporation

Public Storage

OfficeServer.ca

Servers for SMEs

EnvisionOnline.ca

Web Design

NobleOak

Domain Names, Web Hosting and Email

Ottawa Senators

LawnSignKing.com

Help send needy kids to Camp.

MuralArts.ca

Supporting the Arts


StreetPaddleTennis.com

Relax, Play the Newest Sport


Smarty Pants Games

Ottawa Aerial Photos

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BUSI 4600 Entrepreneurialist Culture*
BUSI 3600 Small Business Management
ARCC 4500 Design Economics*
ARCU 4400 Enterprise of the City-- Urban Economics, Development and Sustainability
78.392D Real Estate and Development*
Curriculum Vitae of Dr. Bruce M. Firestone (Academic)

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Research Surveys


Entrepreneurship Readiness Test (ERT)
What is "Pixie Dust"
"Pixie Dust Survey"
"Pixie Dust"
Results So Far

"Anti Pixie Dust" Survey
"Anti Pixie Dust"
Results So Far

Smartest and Dumbest
Guerrilla Marketing Survey


Test Your Guerrilla Marketing Program
Guerrilla Marketing Test

Sources of Bootstrap Capital Survey


Business Model Scoring (BMS) Test



Business Model Generator (BMG) Landing Page

Entrepreneurialist Culture (ECQ) Test

Global Survey of Community Attitudes to Densification

Densification Background Document


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Exploring the relationship between urban density and property values
Sustainable Cities and Neo-Urbanist Design


 

Exploriem.org, Professional Entrepreneurs Organization, Ottawa, Canada:

EXP300 Introduction to Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship-- the Way Ahead. Exploriem.org Course. Summary Page.

Exploriem.org Other Courses.

Exploriem.org Membership Benefits.


Decision Making and Other Tools
Coin Flipper!
Dice Roller!
Random Number Generator!
Password Generator!
Unit Conversions!
3000 Year Calender!
Time Zones!
Minute Timer!

 

Saragasso City-- a thought experiment in City-State design.
EQ Journal Blog

Online Mortgage Calculator (For Canadian Mortgages)

Canadian Mortgage Tables

I posted some mortgage factor* tables on my web site for your use (just click on the link above). You can use them to calculate weekly, bi-weekly, semi monthly or monthly Canadian mortgages.

Note that Canadian and US mortgages are calculated slightly differently; Canadian mortgages are compounded semi annually and not in advance. When you use Microsoft's Excel application to calculate mortgages you have to specify '0' for Canadian mortgages and '1' for US mortgages.

Here is an example:

Let's say you have a $100,000 Canadian mortgage and you have decided to pay monthly installments of principal and interest. Assume your bank loans you the money with an interest rate of 7.5% and an amortization period of 20 years. Then your mortgage factor (see p. 4) is 7.986021 which means you are paying $7.986021 per $1,000 of loan amount per month or $798.60 of principal and interest on this mortgage every month.

Now if you were to pay twice a month instead (semi monthly), your mortgage factor would be 3.986886; that is, you would make payments twice a month of $398.69 each.

(*You may occasionally see the mortgage factor referred to as a 'capital recovery factor', an older term. The Mortgage Factor tables are reproduced from my copy of the Ontario Real Estate College's Encycolpedia, a very useful reference book for Real Estate professionals.)

Google Maps
Feng Shui Number Generator: generates a number (price) that always sums to a '9' for a range of numbers (prices). Believed in some cultures to be a 'lucky' number. Uses modular arithmetic.

Map of University of Ottawa
Map of Carleton University
Partners' Page
Entrepreneurship Track at Carleton University: courses, lectures, coaching, mentoring and competitions you should know about.

Entrepreneurship Co-op Program and LearnByDoing.ca

Magic from a Hat Lecture Series presented by Carleton University's Eric Sprott School of Business- Lessons in Entrepreneurship from the Front Lines (by Prominent Entrepreneurs).

Wes Nicol business plan competition.
Log On

Eric Sprott School of Business
, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada:

BUSI 3600 Small Business Management- Case studies of SMEs and preparation of student business plans for their own business start-ups.

Small Business Management Annex
Copyright. Dr. Bruce M. Firestone, Ottawa, Canada. January 2009.




University Of Ottawa
School of Management

Learn Entrepreneurship By Doing It


DramatisPersonae.org

Strategic Coaching



Exploriem.org

Professional Entrepreneurs and Intrapreneurs Organization

Qwantz.com
A LearnByDoing.ca Startup


Ottawa Real Estate News

Helping you find the right real estate opportunity in Canada's Capital City


Manchester.ca


Blue Heron Storage Corporation

Public Storage

OfficeServer.ca

Servers for SMEs

EnvisionOnline.ca

Web Design

NobleOak

Domain Names, Web Hosting and Email

Ottawa Senators

LawnSignKing.com

Help send needy kids to Camp.

MuralArts.ca

Supporting the Arts


StreetPaddleTennis.com

Relax, Play the Newest Sport


Smarty Pants Games

Ottawa Aerial Photos

SimplyWrite
Communications:
Why You Need an Editor



Welcome Friends of the Future. You are visitor number:



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Family Page
ADM3396 Seminar in Administration: Entrepreneurialist Culture- How to Bootstrap Yourself to Business Success in the 21st Century*
BUSI 4600 Entrepreneurialist Culture*
BUSI 3600 Small Business Management
ARCC 4500 Design Economics*
ARCU 4400 Enterprise of the City-- Urban Economics, Development and Sustainability
78.392D Real Estate and Development*
Curriculum Vitae of Dr. Bruce M. Firestone (Academic)

http://www.eqjournalblog.com/wp-login.php


Research Surveys


Entrepreneurship Readiness Test (ERT)
What is "Pixie Dust"
"Pixie Dust Survey"
"Pixie Dust"
Results So Far

"Anti Pixie Dust" Survey
"Anti Pixie Dust"
Results So Far

Smartest and Dumbest
Guerrilla Marketing Survey


Test Your Guerrilla Marketing Program
Guerrilla Marketing Test

Sources of Bootstrap Capital Survey


Business Model Scoring (BMS) Test



Business Model Generator (BMG) Landing Page

Entrepreneurialist Culture (ECQ) Test

Global Survey of Community Attitudes to Densification

Densification Background Document


Research Assistance Required:
Exploring the relationship between urban density and property values
Sustainable Cities and Neo-Urbanist Design