How does a business idea go from start-up to long-term success?
The New Venture BC seminar series, hosted at Simon Fraser University’s Segal Graduate School of Business, gives a crash-course in entrepreneurship to the British Columbia business community at large – as well as to SFU Business students and alumni. SFU Business was a founding sponsor for NVBC, establishing it in 2000 to help encourage entrepreneurship in B.C.’s technology sector. Today, the non-profit BC Ventures Society administers and operates the competition, with more than 100 B.C. business leaders acting as mentors and judges every year. More than 1,100 aspiring B.C. entrepreneurs have entered the competition. Winners have built companies raising more than $67 million in financing and creating more than 500 jobs for British Columbians. These include the likes of 2008 winner Saltworks Technologies – founded by two SFU Management of Technology MBA graduates, Ben Sparrow and Joshua Zoshi – which is delivering to the desalination industry a revolutionary, affordable and energy-efficie
