Entrepreneur-in-Residence/l’entrepreneur en résidence
Program for U
A) Completed or on track so
far:
1. Media—Media
Release, Interviews with Mark Sutcliffe and A-Channel; Appearance on expert panel
with Janet Eastman,
2. Office Hours—Establish regular office hours (Wednesdays 2
to 5 p.m. during summer).
3. Office—454
4. Business Model Competition—Draft complete (See: http://www.dramatispersonae.org/BusinessModelCompetition/DescriptionUOBizModelCompetition.htm).
5. Sponsorship—Search for sponsor: commitment of three years required at $2,000 per
annum. (Richcraft Construction, Days Inn. OCRI, New
Beginnings for Youth, Tony Graham Foundation)
6. Benefits of Sponsorship—Competition named for sponsor, recognized donor of
U Ottawa SOM, opportunity to meet top students and present awards, media
announcement of sponsorship and event, announcement of winners in media,
winning participants’ names displayed in trophy showcase at SOM, mention on SOM
website and competition website.
7. Course Approval—ADM3396 Seminar in Administration: Entrepreneurialist Culture- How to
Bootstrap Yourself to Business Success in the 21st Century. Winter Term 2007.
Wednesdays from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
8. Keynote Speech—Homecoming speech, open house, Saturday, September 16th,
2006 at 10:15 to 10:45 am to be given by Firestone in both official languages.
Proposed title of speech: “Entrepreneurship
and Intrapreneurship—the Basis for Economic Development, Personal Freedom and
Knowledge”. Examines: i) the relationship between
economic takeoff and the growth of an entrepreneurial culture; ii) the
connection between human rights and property rights; iii) the challenge and
freedom that comes from a career spent as an entrepreneur or intrapreneur; iv)
true personal security derives from knowledge and know-how not control over
fixed assets and capital. Copies of speech to be available after presentation.
9. Entrepreneurship Club—integrate Firestone
initiatives with those of the Club. Meeting arranged. Schedule Elevator Pitch
Comp. before Biz Model Comp. Winners from one feed into another. Schedule Biz
Model Comp. before Wes Nicol Comp. and funnel winners
from Biz Model Comp. into the Nicol.
10. Entrepreneurship Symposium—met with students who wish to put on a weekend-long symposium on entrepreneurship at UOttawa.
11. Moderator,
Alumni Event,
(So that the Harder you
Work, the More Money you Make and the Harder it is for your Competition to Copy
you)
12. Professor O. J. Firestone Scholarship Fund—support for
entrepreneurship education. Acquired the Party Suite for fundraising in Winter
Term 2007.
13. Promotion—appear in several classes in Fall 2006 to promote entrepreneurship
program including: Firestone’s Winter 2007 Entrepreneurialist Culture Course,
Career Centre Entrepreneurial Challenge, Entrepreneur Club’s Business Dinner (Feb
1, 2007), Entrepreneur Club’s Elevator Pitch Competition (End of First Week of
Feb. 2007), Business Model Competition (March 2007) and Wes Nicol
Competition (March 2007).
14. Campaign—apply to Career Centre with Entrepreneurship Club for $1,600 grant to promote
activities on campus. Design new campaign using outdoor lawn signs to tell a
story and whet student interest on campus on entrepreneurship education,
competitions and events.
15. Courses attended to promote activities—Introduction to
Entrepreneurship, Strategic Management, Enterprise Resource Planning, Marketing
Strategy, ADM 3318 International Business and a number of engineering courses.
16. Links—collect
with Entrepreneurship Club and Career Centre and the SOM relevant links on one
web page (possibly using a graphical interface and an out of the box look and
feel a la Million Dollar Home Page: http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/)
to link all entrepreneurship activity on and off campus that would be relevant
to the student entrepreneur and staff including:
a)
courses,
b)
research
opportunities,
c)
bursaries,
d)
scholarships,
e)
prizes,
f)
competitions,
g)
events,
h)
clubs,
i)
mentoring
assistance,
j)
grants,
k)
VC,
l)
Gov't funding,
m)
Banking,
n)
Legal advice,
o)
Accounting and
Bookkeeping help,
p)
Realty
assistance,
q)
Tech assistance,
r)
Plus other
resources on and off campus.
17. Enlist support of Entrepreneurship Club to get parking signs, mural
arts program and EQ Journal off the ground—require 1 to 2 volunteers for each
endeavour. Some of the revenues to go to Club as an ‘annuity’, sustainable
self-funded activity.
18. Assist Entrepreneurship Club with design of sponsorship packages—emphasis on three year
sponsorship deals to build a stable revenue base for the Club over time. Abandon
one year sponsorships.
19. Speech—Career
Centre Speech for Entrepreneurship Challenge: “Personal Financial Habits and
Creditor Proofing Yourself”.
20. Presentation—Barb Orser’s class ADM3313: “Getting the
Business Model Right with Case Studies”.
21. Mentoring—Collaborate
with Professor Scott Ensign. Do a new case study on GradeATechs.com, a local
B) Areas still to be explored in the
near term:
1. Mentoring—develop conventional and non-traditional network of mentors for
student teams including self-made entrepreneurs from not only the technology
industry but from service and construction industries as well as others
including the NGO sector. Met with Career Centre to move this ahead. Created a
list of 12 ‘unconventional’ mentors. Require space on
SOM website to link student teams with mentors.
2. Wes Nicol Competition—Firestone to co-ordinate U of O entrants. Successful
Business Model Competitors to move onto Wes Nicol Competition. Who at U of O is doing this now?
3. Parking Administration—Develop a new revenue stream for
SOM entrepreneurship initiatives. Revenue split: 1/3 to Parking Admin., 2/3 to
SOM.
4. Newspaper—Entrepreneurship Quarterly to be published in co-operation with
Exploriem.org. 15 newspaper boxes in the city. (New sponsor—Sleepwell
Management)
1. Leverage—require assistance within U of O SOM. Is there
someone Firestone can work with in the SOM who can provide support in the form
of an ‘executive assistant’?
2. Develop Speakers Series—what is the right forum for
this? How to attract student and staff to lectures?
3. Learn By Doing—develop a practicum based
on the
4. Entrepreneurship Tools, Research and Teaching Materials—Develop “The Entrepreneurs
Handbook”. Tools developed include: Measuring Pre-Disposition to
Entrepreneurship (the ECQ Test), Online Business Model Generator,
Differentiated Value and Business Model Scoring, Sources of Bootstrap Capital,
Measuring Cash Conversion Cycles, Measuring the Effectiveness of Guerrilla
Marketing, GM Research Methods.
5. Other Networking Events—Bootstrap Awards. (Approach
C) Areas to be developed in
longer term:
1. Concentration in Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship, Naming Rights
and Formal Centre—require assistance of a faculty member at SOM. Can the Dean assign
someone to assist?
2. Foundation for Entrepreneurship—micro-capital development fund.
3. Tracking Entrepreneurship Graduates—in co-operation with Exploriem.org.
4. Establish “UN Day of the Entrepreneur”—celebrate the contributions of
entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs to economic development, personal freedom and knowledge.
5. Entrepreneurship Track at U
6. Mini-Offices—develop relationships with executive offices for U Ottawa startups.
LINKS:
http://www.dramatispersonae.org/BusinessModelCompetition/DescriptionUOBizModelCompetition.htm
http://www.dramatispersonae.org/BusinessModelCompetition/UOttawaCompetitionDeGestion.htm
http://www.dramatispersonae.org/WesleyNicolBusinessPlanCompetition/UOttawaWesNicoPrixlFrancais.htm
http://www.dramatispersonae.org/EntrepreneurialistCultureFrontPage.htm
http://www.dramatispersonae.org/ECQTest/ECQ(ns)TestAuto.htm
http://www.dramatispersonae.org/BusinessModels/BusinessModelGeneratorLandingPage.htm
http://www.dramatispersonae.org/BusinessModels/BusinessModelScoring.htm
http://www.dramatispersonae.org/BusinessModels/BusinessModelScoringTest.htm
http://www.dramatispersonae.org/bmg/
http://www.dramatispersonae.org/UNDayOfTheEntrepreneur/UNDayOfTheEntrepreneur.htm
http://www.dramatispersonae.org/MoreNationalHolidays/SocializtionOfLeisureMoreNationalHolidays.htm
http://www.dramatispersonae.org/UOttawaHomecomingSpeech16September2006_bilingual4.htm