Introduction

My introduction to the "pitch competition" and our guest panelists

Investor Pitches

Here are the 15 presentations by the students of BUS 477:

Ken Spencer Business Plan Competition

Five of the business concepts presented above were selected to participate in the SFU Ken Spencer Business Plan Competition for cash and bragging rights. (Sorry, your grades were already in!) Which ones do you think were selected?

An independent panel of judges selected the following teams in the following order as winners of the 2008 Ken Spencer competition.

• note:  Carve was winner of the top award.  Carve has since gone ahead with a patent application.  Their ability to obtain a patent could be compromised if the idea gets out, so I have not made their presentation public

Thank You!

Pulling this off successfully took a lot of behind the scenes work from a lot of people.

The students of BUS 477. Congrats to each and every one of you for accomplishing what you did with the resources and time frames you had to work with. Your business plans and presentations blew the sox off my expectations and made me very proud to have been a part of this class.
Our guest investors. Yaron, Ernie, Jim, Ben, thank you for taking your evening to share your real life perspectives with the class. I hope that one day soon, some of the students will be knocking on your doors with some "real" deals for you!
The SFU audio-visual team. Thank you Andrew Szendrey for your help with getting things set up, Sam Scott for filming the presentations and Jordan Paterson for all of your help with editing and getting the presentations up on the web.
SFU Undergrad Business. Many thanks to Colleen Collins, Maria Lambert and the admin staff of SFU undergrad business for all of your behind the scenes help with making this class what it was. Special thanks to Colleen for taking money out of a very tight budget to fund the film production

Ean Jackson
Instructor, BUS 477