Business Plan Presentations

Everyone worked hard and did a good job on your presentations.  You also all did a very good job listening to the advice of the guests who heard your presentations.  You could tell that there are many different ways to build a business and these guests did not all agree on the best way but they were all willing to listen and learn from each other.  I believe they also listened and learned from you.

Thanks for all of your work.  You all now have proposals that could be a part of your portfolio as you present yourselves to potential employers.

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Final Presentation Order

Here is the order for today's final presentations:

2:00 Photo Book
2:25 Eco Bags
2:50 Art Cafe
3:15 Art Vending
3:40 Motion Interiors

Currently there will be four guests to listen to your presentations and provide insights.  One guest is from the Cyberport Incutrain Centre, Two are Entrepreneurs who are a part of InnoCentre and one is an Entrepreneur who helped start DGC in the 1990s.

I am looking forward to everyone's work and hope we can learn from your presentations and the feedback and insights from our guests.



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Brand Wheels & Marketing

I have sent comments to the three group leaders on the completed Brand Wheels.  I need the two groups who have not yet completed Brand Wheels to get those in to me so that I can make comments that will help you move forward in your planning for your presentation.

Today we will talk more about marketing and start planning exactly what the company's are going to make, or the service they will provide, where it will be available (and how the service will be framed), and how you are going to tell people about your business, how it will be promoted.  We will worry less about price this week but we are starting to build practical plans out of the mission, philosophy and brands we have already started to create.

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Only one submission of Mission Statement Notes

It is very disappointing that only one group could find the time to send me their notes on their Mission Statement work.  I don't expect this work to be completed yet but it is useful to hear from an outside source as you are generating ideas and figuring out what kind of company you want to be.  An outsider reading the words you have chosen can give you the impression they have from those words, an impression that you may have missed.

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Business Groups Are Set

I have decided to cut down the number of business groups to five.  This will allow for slightly larger groups and allow everyone to share the work load.

I apologize to Ming but this means the business presentation company will not be developed this semester.

I came up with these groups on Saturday and I have made only slight refinements since then.

Traditional Art Cafe - Steph, Wene, Kel & Velvet

Motion Interiors - Chery, Dorcas, Daniel & Sum

Moneybrush - Jason, Shirley & Ming

Eco Bags - Phoebe, Peggy, Ruby & Meng

Photo Books - Alan, Vicky, Dolly & Nelson

I believe these groups should work and know that you will all do your best to make them work.  I will be checking with you about your group dynamics over the course of the semester.

We will start working in these groups today as we start solidifying and building the five business ideas.

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Group Choices - 18 February 2010

After very few responses on group choices there has been an increase.  Please send me your choices as quickly as possible.  I will make the group assignments on Saturday and post them to the blog.  If I do not have your choices then you will have no say in the process that will occur as a combination of your preferences, random assignment and strong group creation.

The groups will begin developing their businesses on Monday as we talk about goals, objectives and mission statements.  You will be working in your groups with each of the subject areas as we move toward the final presentation of the business plan on the last day of class.

I will also be making comments on your mock-ups and CVs in the next couple of days so keep an eye on your blog for comments.

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Group Preferences

  The group leaders for the development of the full-blown business plans will be:

     Wene & Steph - Traditional Chinese Food Art Cafe
     Phoebe - Custom Eco Bags
     Ming - Presentation Design Services
     Jason - MoneyBrush (bringing together designers and people with money)
     Chery - Living Interiors through animated environments
     Alan - Custom Photobooks - personal, high quality, retouching, design

All of the group leaders will add two members to their development team.  That means Team One will have four members and all of the rest will have three.

Team Leaders please send me three choices for team members in order of preference.

Team Members please send me three choices for teams in order of preference.

Overall the basic work was good and I look forward to interesting presentations at the end of the semester.