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  1. Innovation in family business

  • Prof. Alfredo De Massis
• 34 min
  2. Entrepreneurship: an activity and a way of life

  • Prof. Nicos Nicolaou
• 47 min
  3. Entrepreneurial opportunities

  • Prof. Jon Eckhardt
• 28 min
  4. Cognitive foundations of entrepreneurship: creativity and opportunity recognition

  • Prof. Robert A. Baron
• 30 min
  5. What entrepreneurs need to know before they start

  • Prof. Sharon Alvarez
• 39 min
  6. Creating and deploying the entrepreneurial team

  • Prof. Ted Baker
• 31 min
  7. Financial resources for the new venture

  • Dr. Gary Dushnitsky
• 49 min
  8. Accounting for entrepreneurs: key principles and essential practices

  • Dr. Michael Kraten
• 47 min
  9. Financial resources: how to manage them

  • Dr. Michael Kraten
• 41 min
  10. Writing a business plan for a new venture

  • Prof. Evan Douglas
• 49 min
  11. Legal issues relating to new ventures: protecting your intellectual assets

  • Prof. Andrew Sherman
• 32 min
  12. Strategy: planning for competitive edge 1

  • Dr. Gary May
• 26 min
  13. Strategy: planning for competitive edge 2

  • Dr. Gary May
• 37 min
  14. Growing entrepreneurial businesses

  • Prof. Edward D. Hess
• 21 min
  15. Exit strategies for entrepreneurs

  • Dr. Basil Peters

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1. Introduction
2. The 21st century economy
3. Entire countries are bankrupt
4. Market lost trillions in days
5. Lehman Brothers is gone
6. GM bankrupt
7. Why is this happening?
8. Global trade
9. The world is now a small place
10. Canada's most valuable corp.
11. Other big tech companies
12. Intel - 15 years
13. Microsoft - 15 years
14. Cisco - 15 years
15. None are creating wealth
16. Big companies are risky
17. Startups create all the growth
18. Startups create all the jobs
19. Lots doesn't work anymore
20. Changes that create wealth
21. Innovation is the opportunity
22. Innovation happens in startups
23. Internet acceleration
24. The internet is changing us
25. Our species is evolving
26. New startup economics
27. Why it costs so little today
28. Many startups need no capital
29. Exits are the best part
30. We always hear about the big exits
31. Most exits are under 20 million dollars
32. Google wants even earlier exits
33. Examples of these exits
34. Why this is happening now
35. Under 20 million dollars is easy
36. Big corps have too much cash
37. Who else is buying?
38. Weekender sold in 10 days
39. A B.C. really early exit
40. A new really early exit
41. Big exits in just 2 - 3 years
42. A golden era for entrepreneurs
43. Resources

Topics Covered

• The 21st Century economy
• Global trade
• Nortel
• Intel
• Microsoft
• Cisco
• Big companies are risky
• The power of startups
• Job creation
• Changes that create wealth
• Innovation
• Internet acceleration
• New startup economics
• Decreased cost
• Exits are the best part
• Big exits
• Early exits
• $20 million threshold
• Too much cash
• Who is buying?
• Weekender
• Big exits in little time
• A golden era

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Series:

• Entrepreneurship

Categories:

• Management, Leadership & Organisation

Talk Citation

Publication History

• Published on January 31, 2013