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Greetings,

This is a reminder that Days 4-6 of the July-August Lead to Win
Opportunity Development session is scheduled for Tuesday August 25 to
Thursday August 27. The session will be held at the Centre for Executive
Leadership, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa located at
the World Exchange Plaza, 45 O’Connor, TD Tower, suite 350, Ottawa ON K1P
1A4.

SCHEDULE AND OPPORTUNITY ASSESSMENT FORM
With this e-mail we include:
- a draft of the schedule for days 4-6, names of participants by group,
process and criteria for day 6 assessments and other relevant information
- the form that will be used to assess opportunities on the morning of Day
6, Thursday August 27.

Let us know if you have suggestions for changes in the schedule or
questions about the Day 6 assessments.

Please work on your day 6 presentations. Day 6 assessors are tough,
no-nonsense folks. Note that Day 6 assessment will focus on the 7
dimensions defined in the Day 6 Opportunity Assessment form included with
this email.

SURVEY RESULTS
With this e-mail we also include the results of the survey for days 1-3.
We provide the (i) stats for all presentations, (ii) proposal on how we
will incorporate your suggestions, and (iii) appendices with your unedited
suggestions for changes and comments.

We are committed to deliver a world class program in business opportunity
development for technology companies in this region.   Thus, your feedback
is very important to us and we use it to continuously improve Lead to Win.

Please examine our response to your suggestions and comments and let us
know if there are better ways to improve Phase II of Lead to Win. What we
show is what we plan to implement.

ALL GREENS
Please join me in congratulating the five groups who received 4 GREENS
from the Day 3 reviewers
- Adam McNamara and Tariq Zaid
- Jeff McDonald
- Tom Lewison and Sharon Lewison
- Yi Li
- David Nadeau

RESULTS OF DAY 3 ASSESSMENTS
The results of Day 3 assessments were:
- GREEN = 9 opportunities (13 people)
- YELLOW = 14 opportunities (20 people)
- RED = 8 opportunities (13 people)

A total of 33 people (23 opportunities) will be invited to attend Days 4-6.

SPACE
If you need space to work or meet clients, you can use the second floor of
the Code Factory for free.  The open space and three board rooms are
available to you from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. If you need space in the evenings
or weekends, please make arrangements with Ian Graham directly. He will
accommodate you.

To book a meeting room, call 613 321 3821, and let them know that you are
part of Lead to Win. An illustration of what the three meeting rooms look
like is at:
http://www.thecodefactory.ca/meet/book.php.

The three meeting rooms can be made into one.

Information on the CodeFactory is at: http://www.thecodefactory.ca

MENTORS
If you need a mentor to strengthen your opportunity, please contact me.

ANYTHING ELSE?
If you need anything else, please contact me immediately 24×7.

Tony B.
613 829 8885

>>>>>Days 4-6 Survey Results<<<<

The August issue of the OSBR is now available in PDF and HTML formats. The editorial theme this month is Tech Entrepreneurship and the authors include:

Brian Hurley, CEO of Purple Forge, provides an overview of ecosystem models and highlights, through numerous examples, how it is possible to take advantage of the related, like-minded and even competitive players in an ecosystem.

Carlo Daffara, head of research at Conecta, presents the results of a recent survey of over 200 open source companies, demonstrating the economic advantages of open source across a wide variety of business models and commercialization approaches.

Peter Carbone, an ICT executive and Coral CEA champion, discusses an approach to commercialization through the creation of a new ecosystem for communications enabled applications.

Gordon Quinn, CEO of iPic Innovations, writes about entrepreneurship in an Internet-enabled world. The Internet was certainly disruptive and spawned a number of new ecosystems. Gordon looks at how to disrupt for gain in that context.

John Boden, CTO at Movius Interactive, takes on the issue of entrepreneurship within existing enterprises. Innovation and culture are closely linked and he explores the role open source can play in stimulation both.

James Bowen, an entrepreneur and adjunct professor at uOttawa’s Telfer School of Management, answers the question “what do investors look for in a business venture?”.

The editorial theme for the upcoming September issue of the OSBR is “business intelligence” and the guest editor will be Mike Andrews from SQL Power. Submissions are due by August 20–contact the Editor if you are interested in a submission.

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Open Source Business Resource

http://www.osbr.ca/ojs/index.php/osbr