Listen to a Podcast Interview recorded during Round 3 of the Stanley Cup Finals between the Buffalo Sabres and the Ottawa Senators in May 2007:
Bruce Firestone with Career Coach Alan Kearns of CareerJoy.com
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Scarlet Glory, Gatineau Park
(Gordon Harrison)
"I was fortunate to be asked to attend and speak at the opening of the new Gordon Harrison Gallery in Ottawa, Canada. In my work as a professor and entrepreneur, I realize how important having a diverse arts community is to the development of a city; interesting, creative people like Gordon Harrison attract and encourage other creative people to live in the area and to do what they do. This attracts entrepreneurs to the area who start new enterprises and create more jobs and also make the city a more interesting place to live and work in. It creates a virtuous circle. It takes a lot of courage to start a new Gallery and to exhibit works of art; everyone is an art critic but seeing Gordon's work is like a celebration of Canada-- its tolerance, its tranquility and its beauty. Bravo, Gordon and best of luck to you and Gallery Manager Phil Emond," Dr. Bruce M. Firestone, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Founder, Ottawa Senators, November 2007.
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School of Management,, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada:
Entrepreneur-In-Residence
ADM3396 Seminar in Administration: Entrepreneurialist Culture- How to Bootstrap Yourself to Business Success in the 21st Century. Brochure and Front Page. Winter Term 2007. Wednesdays from 4 pm to 7 pm.
Find out if you have what it takes to become an entrepreneur- take the Entrepreneurialist Culture Quotient Test. ECQ (ns).
How can you really learn to be an entrepreneur? The only real way is to Learn By Doing 'it'. Students in ADM3396 will start their own businesses, run them during the course and make real money. To find out more, check out: LearnByDoing
Entrepreneur In Residence: Program Development
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* Please note: these competitions are open to submissions for not-for-profits and/or social enterprises; they require business models as much as for-profit enterprises. The productivity of charities is often measured by how much of the funds they raise are used in supporting the activities they espouse and how much are 'burned' in administration. The Salvation Army, for example, is noted for the high percentage of funds they raise that actually gets to the 'streets' to help persons in need. |
Real Estate Advice:
Dr. Bruce M. Firestone, Broker,
Keller Williams Ottawa,
613.788.7448 dir 613.236.1515 fax
bfirestone@KWOttawa.ca
DramatisPersonae.org Startup and Enterprise Coaching
DramatisPersonae.org Planning and Real Estate Consulting Services
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Faculty of Engineering and Design, School of Architecture, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada:
ARCC 4500 Design Economics-- Running an Architectural Practice in a Complex Environment. More about the course on: Front Page. Fall 2006. Mondays 0830 to 1130. Room 204 AA.
ARCU 4400 City Organization and Planning (Urban Studies)-- a study of Enterprise of the City including Urban Economics, Urban Design, Real Estate Development and the Sustainability of the City. Considers the neo-urbanist view that the design of the city, at the micro and macro levels, can be both environmentally and economically sustainable. Focuses on understanding the economic, technological, environmental and political forces that are creating the built form of the city from the end of 19th Century to the beginning of the 21st Century and beyond. Micro analysis includes application of Highest and Best Use Principal to development of individual land use parcels. (History/Theory Elective Course for Architects. Other disciplines welcome.) Prerequisite: permission of the lecturer or ARCH 1000 and ARCH 2300. Lectures are once per week for three hours. Front Page. Winter 2007. Mondays 0830 to 1130. Room 204 AA.
78.392 (Real Estate and Development)-- Urban Design and Urban Economics, City-State Development, Nimby'itis, Zoning, Land Use Planning and Property Rights, Project Analysis and Rates Of Return. More about the course on: Front Page.
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| Exploriem.org, Professional Entrepreneurs Organization, Ottawa, Canada:
EXP300 Introduction to Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship-- the Way Ahead. Exploriem.org Course. Summary Page.
Exploriem.org Other Courses.
Exploriem.org Membership Benefits.
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Saragasso City-- a thought experiment in City-State design.
EQ Journal Blog
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Online Mortgage Calculator (For Canadian Mortgages)
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I posted some mortgage factor* tables on my web site for your use (just click on the link above). You can use them to calculate weekly, bi-weekly, semi monthly or monthly Canadian mortgages.
Note that Canadian and US mortgages are calculated slightly differently; Canadian mortgages are compounded semi annually and not in advance. When you use Microsoft's Excel application to calculate mortgages you have to specify '0' for Canadian mortgages and '1' for US mortgages.
Here is an example:
Let's say you have a $100,000 Canadian mortgage and you have decided to pay monthly installments of principal and interest. Assume your bank loans you the money with an interest rate of 7.5% and an amortization period of 20 years. Then your mortgage factor (see p. 4) is 7.986021 which means you are paying $7.986021 per $1,000 of loan amount per month or $798.60 of principal and interest on this mortgage every month.
Now if you were to pay twice a month instead (semi monthly), your mortgage factor would be 3.986886; that is, you would make payments twice a month of $398.69 each.
(*You may occasionally see the mortgage factor referred to as a 'capital recovery factor', an older term. The Mortgage Factor tables are reproduced from my copy of the Ontario Real Estate College's Encycolpedia, a very useful reference book for Real Estate professionals.)
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| Feng Shui Number Generator: generates a number (price) that always sums to a '9' for a range of numbers (prices). Believed in some cultures to be a 'lucky' number. Uses modular arithmetic. |
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Entrepreneurship Track at Carleton University: courses, lectures, coaching, mentoring and competitions you should know about.
Entrepreneurship Co-op Program and LearnByDoing.ca
Magic from a Hat Lecture Series presented by Carleton University's Eric Sprott School of Business- Lessons in Entrepreneurship from the Front Lines (by Prominent Entrepreneurs).
Wes Nicol business plan competition. |
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Eric Sprott School of Business, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada:
BUSI 3600 Small Business Management- Case studies of SMEs and preparation of student business plans for their own business start-ups.
Small Business Management Annex
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