New Ventures BC’s eight-part seminar series kicks off this week with their Assessing the Opportunity seminar on Wednesday, April 2nd at the SFU Segal Graduate School of Business on Granville Street. Presented by Dr. Daniel Muzyka, Dean of the UBC Sauder School of Business, this seminar will help new entrepreneurs evaluate their start-up idea with the business world in mind. Muzyka will help attendees examine their business ideas in terms of need, opportunity, and readiness.

NVBC seminars are open to both contest competitors and the public. The cost for all eight seminars is $100 per team or individual. This fee also covers the competition entry fee for anybody interested in joining. The fee to attend any individual seminar is $20 per team or individual. NVBC volunteers and students with valid ID cards may attend for free.

The deadline to enter the 2008 New Ventures BC Competition is April 23rd. Last year’s winners received $135,000 in prize packages and included local media darling TeamPages and Bean Services.

Watch the blog after for coverage of the event.

After some issues with our previous blog host, we took the plunge and migrated from our previous hosted solution to the brand new WordPress 2.5. This gives us a much snappier backend to work with, and gives you a well-integrated blog with all the features you expect in 2008. We hope to be able to restore the archived posts of past years shortly. Advice to anyone with a WordPress blog: version 2.5 is quite a treat, and worth taking the time to upgrade.

As this is my first post on the NVBC blog, I’ll introduce myself: Hi, I’m Greg Andrews, by day I work for Techvibes, and as part of a partnership between Techvibes and New Ventures BC, I’ll be writing for this blog and covering the New Ventures BC seminar series. In addition to blogging live from the seminars, we also hope to cover some of the companies and ideas that come out of this event. NVBC’s Angie Schick and Techvibes’ Rob Lewis will also be contributing.

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