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Looking for Entrepreneurial Opportunities in All the Usual (and Some Unusual) Places (3rd and Fourth Lectures)

  • 1.  Looking for Entrepreneurial Opportunities in All the Usual (and Some Unusual) Places (3rd and Fourth Lectures)

    Posted 02-17-2014 20:53

    Dear Colleagues, 


    This is just another brief note to let you know that the third and fourth public lectures of Simon Fraser University's Dream Colloquium on Entrepreneurship "Looking for Entrepreneurial Opportunities in All the Usual (and Some Unusual) Places," are scheduled for this coming Thursday and Friday.  


    On Thursday February 20th from 17:30 - 19:30 PST, Saul Estrin, Professor of Management from the London School of Economics and Political Science will speak on the topic of “National Contexts: What makes different entrepreneurs thrive?” It will be webcast live at the following address:

     

    http://www.sfu.ca/dean-gradstudies/events/dreamcolloquium/DreamColloquium-Spring2014/SaulEstrin.html 


    On Friday February 21st from 15:00 – 16:30 PST, Andrew Harries, co-founder of Sierra Wireless and Zeugma Systems Inc. will speak on the topic of “Early Stage Finance, an Entrepreneur's Perspective.” It will be webcast live at the following address: 


    http://www.sfu.ca/dean-gradstudies/events/dreamcolloquium/DreamColloquium-Spring2014/AndrewHarries.html


    For those of you who missed Scott Stern’s January 31st talk on "Entrepreneurial Strategy:  A New Agenda for Start-Up Innovation," video of the event is archived at the following address:


    http://www.sfu.ca/dean-gradstudies/events/dreamcolloquium/DreamColloquium-Spring2014/ScottStern.html 


    Mike Wright's January 17th talk on "Entrepreneurship in and Around Universities" video of the event is archived at the following address:


     http://www.sfu.ca/dean-gradstudies/events/dreamcolloquium/DreamColloquium-Spring2014/MikeWright.html 


    We have now added descriptive indexes below the video archives, so that you can more easily find sections of the video that are of particular interest to you.

     

    Further information on the Dream Colloquium, including details concerning future public lectures can be found here,

     

    http://www.sfu.ca/dean-gradstudies/events/dreamcolloquium/DreamColloquium-Spring2014.html 

     

    Best Wishes,

     

    Eric Gedajlovic 

    Beedie Professer of Strategy and Entrepreneurship,

    Beedie School of Business,

    Simon Fraser University. 

     

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