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Professor Bruce M. Firestone, B. Eng. (Civil), M. Eng.-Sci., PhD.
Entrepreneur-in-Residence/l’entrepreneur en résidence, Telfer
Founder,
Real Estate and Mortgage Broker, Partners Advantage GMAC Real Estate
March 15, 2010
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Don’t Trade in Your Old Suit (Yet)
Hangman: Fast Selection of a
Winner in a Public Space
The Impeccable Warrior and the
Life of an Entrepreneur
Ten Reasons People Stay (or
Come Back) to Ottawa
Deal Structure, Deal Flow and
Bootstrapping It
Can You Tell Me the Way to … ?
Negative Cost Selling and the
Pro Sports Team
Putting Your Website On The
Map (Guest)
The Internet Revolution and the
Business Model
Secrets to Attracting and
Keeping Clients
The Seven Measures of Business Success
What is Business Success and
How to Achieve It?
ROI is Measured in Terms of
CPMs and Engagement
What’s Legal versus What’s Right
Want to be a Better Leader,
Manager, Business Person and Human Being?
Why What Would Google Do is Wrong
Why a Local Foundation Should
Own its Own Real Estate
How a Not-For-Profit Learned
How to Raise $2m in Less Than 10 Minutes
Don’t Be Afraid to Make the First Move
Firestone’s Three Laws of Power Selling
The Worst Sports Collectible Ever
Why Teams don’t Work in the
REALTOR Space
Lack of Creativity is Hurting
Chartered Banks
How to Measure the Value of
Earned Media (Guerrilla Marketing, GM)
A Joke for Your Kids (G, for
General Audiences)
A Product Manager’s Fatal Mistake
Profession to Watch for in the
21st Century: Curator
Negative Cost Selling and
Bootstrap Capitalization
Home Staging in a Commercial Setting
Planning at Macro and Micro Scales
Concessions are Where You
Find Them
Should I Sell or Should I Hold?
Why Scotiabank Place Is Where
It Is (Part 2)
Measuring the Value of Design
and Creativity
Why Large Companies Buy
Cashflow Not Ideas
Should Every Person on the Planet Have a PB4L
Calculate the Real Rate of Return
Can You Hire an Entrepreneur to
Work in Your Organization?
Productivity in the Digital Age—
Sponsorship Can be a Useful
Form of Bootstrap Capital
Six Reasons to Call Your
Independent Mortgage Agent
Two Sentence Explanation of a
Value Proposition
1964 The Tribute Band and
Guerrilla Marketing
Negative Cost Selling—It’s
Everywhere
How to Make a Great Elevator Pitch
Ten Things that Startups Forget to Do
Insider Trading and Insider
Knowledge/Expertise
Weather Forecasting and Quantum Effects
Negative Cost Selling: Jeff
Hunt and the Ottawa 67s
Michael Jackson—Astute Business Person
Bootstrap Capital—Reducing
Capital Requirements
An Alternative to Multi Res
Real Estate Investing
Density Increases Property Values
Malcolm Gladwell Ottawa
Appearance
Can you Create a World Class Org
Why Scotiabank Place is Where it Is
How to (Not) Get Elected
Student President
Business Improvement Associations
Learning Events, Lost and YouTube
Body Clock and the Arizona Cardinals
New Business Model for a REALTOR
Why I enrolled for ADM 3396 (Guest)
If I Gave You a Million Dollars
Why You Need a Professional
Commercial REALTOR
In Defence of Suburbia: Part II
Truth/Smart Truth and Charlie Crist, Governor of Florida
Landlord Licensing is a Bad Idea
Speak the Truth, the Whole
Truth, Frankly and Boldly
Value Proposition for a
Residential REALTOR
Conditional Probability and the
Deal that Fails
John McLellan,
Former President, Bell Canada Speaks
Co-opetition: Airlines, Petrol
Companies, Food Services, Home Builders, … Hey Even
Yahoo May Do It
New Source of Boostrap Capital: Online Micro Loans
Why You Should be Careful about
Causality
Why You Should be Careful with
Statistics: A Haiku
No Manager Has Time to Baby-sit Anymore
What is the Value of Lunar Real Estate?
The Ten Most Important Things
for a Startup to Do
The World’s Greatest
Website—Bruce’s Ten Rules
What is the Biggest Industry in
the World?
Investing in Real Estate with
Little to No Money Down
More About Self
Capitalization
Game Theory and Entrepreneurship
<strong>Entrepreneurship
as a Career Choice</strong>
What should an Undergrad
Entrepreneurship Program at a University look like?
Why Google is Eating the Universe
The team that helped build
a city
Why the Sparks Street Pedestrain Mall in Ottawa Sucks
What makes a person a “Professional”?
Count Down To .500 Lifetime for
the Ottawa Senators Hockey Club (Guest)
The Best Partnership is No Partnership
The Ideal Machine and Web User
Interface: a Q and A
Yoga and Injury Reduction on a NHL Team
HR Professionals– How To Demonstrate their Value Proposition
Why Realtors Should Increase Sale Prices
What’s More
Important? Good Execution or the Next Big Idea?
Props to KFC—Great Guerrilla Marketing
Exceptions to the Rule Make Bad Law
Land Prices Indicate Land Shortages
Democratic Abuse- Getting Rid
of the OMB is NOT the Answer
New Form of Online Payment
System Gains Traction due to use of some Bootstrap Financing
Customer Service is a PROFIT CENTRE.
There are no Rules in Entrepreneurship
Coldwater Creek is a Great Example
of a Bootstrap Startup
Land Price Increases—the Real
Underlying Cause
Entrepreneurialist Culture
Quotient online quiz
Free Online Business Model Generator
What is The Purpose of a National Economy? (Part 1)
Dr. Bruce M. Firestone, B. Eng. (Civil), M.
Eng.-Sci., PhD.
Real Estate Broker and Mortgage Broker
Partners Advantage
GMAC Real Estate, Brokerage; Founder, Ottawa Senators;
Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa;
Executive Director, Exploriem.org.
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