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Entrepreneurship lessons from tech legend Ken Spencer

Nov 24, 2014

Successful companies must empower employees to be responsible for their own decisions – and the potential for saving money by eliminating micromanagement will more than compensate for any potential employee errors.

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Beedie School of Business to host Startup Canada entrepreneurship dialogue

Sep 14, 2012

The Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University will next week play host to Startup Canada Vancouver Town Hall, an open dialogue and networking session for Vancouver’s entrepreneurship sector. The event will be held at SFU’s Segal Graduate School of Business in downtown Vancouver on September 18, and is the result of a partnership between SFU, BCIT, Discovery Foundation, Emily Carr University of Art + Design and UBC. It will bring together Vancouver’s entrepreneurs, […]

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Ken Spencer, BCIC and SFU partner to create more high-tech companies

Jan 12, 2012

Surrey, B.C. (January 12, 2012) – Simon Fraser University is launching entrepreneurship@SFU, a new high-tech entrepreneurship initiative, thanks to a $210,000 donation from Dr. Ken Spencer and a matching contribution of $210,000 from the Province of British Columbia through the B.C. Innovation Council (BCIC). The new Ken Spencer Entrepreneur Incubator, a component of the entrepreneurship@SFU initiative in partnership with BCIC, is a competitive academic pathway for third- and fourth-year business and applied sciences students that […]

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