UW Entrepreneurship Society

Want to start your own business, an idea worth sharing or simply want to dip your toe in the entrepreneurship community around campus?   Then Come out to UW Entrepreneurship Society's end-of-term event where you'll have a chance to network, enjoy scrumptious free food, meet people who share similar ideals, discuss your ideas and have the opportunity to participate in a pitch competition with feedback provided by experienced entrepreneurs. And who knows, you might just meet your co-founder there. Action speaks louder than words so come out and prove to everyone, but more importantly, to yourself why your idea will succeed.   The cherry on top of the event will be our feature guest: Alfred Lui Alfred is an active member in Internet of Things start-up community. Alfred founded the San Francisco Internet of Things Meetup in Feb 2013. In the fall of 2013, he help organized TEDxSF. He is also a Managing Director of FounderDating, a global online community of start up founders. He will be talking about his journey from graduation until now, his involvement in the start-up community, UX design, consumer wearables, and more. Alfred graduated from Electrical Engineering at University of Waterloo in 1997. Alfred also holds a Master Degree in Human-Computer Interaction from DePaul University and Master Degree in Design Methods from IIT Institute of Design. Alfred spend the first 7 years of his career developing global enterprise systems. Since 2004, Alfred has been focusing on user experience design, for companies such as Motorola, Nokia, Greenpeace, PayPal, The BBC and Vodafone. He was recently the User Experience Director of Jawbone, where he led a team of designers to create Jawbone UP24, their latest wearable health tracker. Alfred Lui has come to speak about his experiences, judge your pitches, answer your burning questions or just have a nice chat.   Action speaks louder than words so come out and prove to everyone, but more importantly, to yourself why your idea will succeed.   *************PITCH COMPETITION INFO****************   The informal pitch competition will consist of you doing an elevator pitch of your business/idea for 1-2 min

How would you use $15,000 and prizes to help your business grow? Intuit wants to hear your story and help one lucky Waterloo region company use $15,000 to make it happen!! Intuit is also giving away a FREE One Year QuickBooks subscription for applying! Click here to apply now!! If you like tacos, it gets even better.  Join us for a FREE taco lunch to network with local entrepreneurs! Lunch is brought to you to by Inuit and the Laurier LaunchPad on Tuesday November 26 from 11am-2pm at the Communitech Hub to learn more about the $15K Kick-Starter!!  Save a few taco shells for yourself by registering for admission here! COMPANIES IN WATERLOO REGION CAN ENTER FOR A CHANCE TO  WIN $15K TO KICK-START YOUR VENTURE!  

8 pitches...3 min each...4 prizes of $500.  Come watch Waterloo students pitch their business ideas to a live audience!  The Business Plan Competition The Business Plan Competition will be held on the morning of November 20th at the University of Waterloo in the Student Life Centre (SLC). This will be a private competition where eight selected companies will be asked to pitch their business plans to a panel of judges for an opportunity to win prize money: first place $5000, second place $2000, and third place $1000. Winners will be announced after the Elevator Pitch Competition. The Elevator Pitch Competition The Elevator Pitch Competition will also be held on November 20th in the SLC. The competition takes place in the great hall from 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. This is a public event so you will be pitching to an audience as well as a panel of entrepreneurs for an opportunity to win 1 of 4 prizes of $500. Lunch will be provided!

Come find out what we're growing! Help us celebrate our first crop of GreenHouse innovators and their budding social enterprises. Light refreshments will be served. Parking at St. Paul's will be free for this event. For more information, please contact: Tania Del Matto [email protected] 519-885,1460, ext. 213   GreenHouse was featured in The Globe and Mail's Canadian University Report. View the article here  : http://uwaterloo.ca/stpauls/news/greenhouse-innovation-community-featured-globe-and-mail)

Calling all designers, innovators, and business-minded students! Do you have the next great, profitable idea?