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Dear Colleagues, 

This is a note to let you know about the fifth public lecture of Simon Fraser University's Dream Colloquium on Entrepreneurship "Looking for Entrepreneurial Opportunities in All the Usual (and Some Unusual) Places."

On Friday March 7th from 15:00 – 16:30 PST, Jonathan C. Lewis will speak on the topic of “What Makes Social Entrepreneurship Social?" His talk will be hosted by Professor Tom Lawrence, Weyerhaeuser Professor of Change Management at the Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University.

Jonathan's lecture will be webcast live at the following address:

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

Jonathan is the Founder and Host of Cafe Impact. He is also the Founder and President of the Opportunity Collaboration, a strategic business retreat and networking summit for 300 senior level anti-poverty leaders which occurs annually on World Poverty Day in Ixtapa, Mexico. Jonathan is also the Founder and Board Chair of MicroCredit Enterprises.  This innovative social venture leverages $80 million of private capital to make tiny business loans to deeply impoverished people, mostly women, in developing countries.

For those of you who missed previous public lectures in this series,

Andrew Harries' February 21st talk on "Early Stage Finance, an Entrepreneur's Perspective"  is now archived at the following address: 

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

Saul Estrin's February 20th talk on “National Contexts: What makes different entrepreneurs thrive” is available at the following address:

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

Scott Stern’s January 31st talk on "Entrepreneurial Strategy:  A New Agenda for Start-Up Innovation," 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" 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 Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship,

Beedie School of Business,

Simon Fraser University.