Venture Meet Up allows for a casual meet-up for aspiring student entrepreneurs from all faculties and departments to discuss ideas and make connections, matching students with ideas & innovation to students with business acumen.

On March 2, 2010 from 5:00pm-6:00pm at MBC 2290-2292, Graham Buksa, who has built an internationally acclaimed longboard business, Rayne Longboards will be our guest speaker.

While completing a biomedical engineering degree, Graham was the President of an award-winning Intelligent Vehicle project, competed nationally in Entrepreneurial Design competitions and completed specialized coursework in quality control systems, management and business development.

Not content to take a regular career path, Graham has built an internationally acclaimed longboard business, Rayne Longboards, for the past 5 years. In this time Graham has been the winner of the 2004 Small Business BC business plan competition, built a high-efficiency factory, completed cutting edge R&D in partnership with the National Research Council and has proven himself a force within the international downhill racing community

Venture Meet Up is free of charge and pizza is provided!

Students will get a chance to hear stories from our guest speaker, participate in a Q&A session and mingle with others!

What makes you stand out from your competitors?

We'll give you a couple minutes to think about it but if you can't give a good answer to that question, then we've got a special event coming up that you wouldn't want to miss!

Roy Osing, author of BE DiFFERENT or be dead, is coming to SFU for an interactive lecture with exercises and a Q&A session. This workshop focuses on execution: the things that you can do today to build your business and immunize it against performance decline and failure tomorrow.

Roy Osing is a leading executive in the Canadian telecommunication industry and a recognized business consultant and educator, Roy Osing’s career spans over three decades of singular achievement. Learn more about Roy here: http://www.bedifferentorbedead.com/about_the_author/ or follow him on Twitter! @RoyOsing

Learn how to survive in a struggling economy.
Learn business building practices that have been implemented in the real world.
Learn how to BE DiFFERENT.

Who: Everyone is welcome but register early!
When: March 9th 3:30pm-6:30pm
Location: SFU Burnaby MBC 2290-2292
Register here: http://www.sifesimonfraser.com/be-different

Also, as a special deal for participants of this workshop, BE DiFFERENT or be dead will be available for purchase for a discounted price of $30!

So come out to this event and leave being able to answer what makes you stand out from your competitors.

BYOB (Bring Your Own Brand) is a workshop series presented by SIFE Simon Fraser geared towards personal branding. As university students we must understand the importance of personal branding in order to differentiate ourselves from the crowd.

BYOB workshops will help you discover your own personal brand and help you establish yourself.

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The second workshop will comprise of:

- What is Social Media?
- Using online social media to leverage and personally brand yourself.
- The importance of being savvy with online social media.

This workshop will include Erica Lam from Cossette and creator of The Style Spy (http://www.thestylespy.com/)

The speaker session will be followed by interactive activities with the audience to help you discover your own personal brand.

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*ALL SFU students and faculty are welcome!*

Follow BYOB on twitter for the latest branding tips!
http://twitter.com/BYOBSFU