Product camp reminder

ProductCamp Toronto is fast approaching, on Sunday, October 4th at the Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University, downtown Toronto (55 Dundas Street West, above BestBuy and Canadian Tire).

Registration and breakfast is at 9am.

It’s free to attend!

Here are a few links to give you more detail about what to expect:

- ProductCamp Toronto home page: http://www.productcamp.org/toronto/

- Schedule:  http://www.productcamp.org/toronto/event/

- Suggested Sessions: http://www.productcamp.org/toronto/sessions/

- Pre-registration site: http://pct2009prereg.eventbrite.com/

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ENTERPRISE TORONTO SMALL BUSINESS FORUM 2009

ENTERPRISE TORONTO
SMALL BUSINESS FORUM 2009
METRO TORONTO CONVENTION CENTRE
255 Front Street West, North Building, 100 Level
October 19, 2009 — 9am to 4:30pm

Small Business Forum 2009 brings together entrepreneurs and business development experts, all levels of government, and business product and service providers.

ADMISSION IS FREE BUT YOU MUST REGISTER TO PARTICIPATE

Free Entrepreneurship 101 Lecture Series starts at MaRS again

Interested in learning more about entrepreneurship? Looking to start a new venture? Wondering what can be done for your career during this recessionary climate? Look no further!  Sponsored by CIBC, MaRS offers a free, non-credit introductory course on entrepreneurship that introduces you to the nuts and bolts of building a business.

http://marsdd.com/mars/Events/Event-Calendar/Ent101

MIT Open Course Ware for Entrepreneurship in Innovation

MIT Open Course Ware (thanks @davidcrow for the links)

• 15.351 Managing Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• 15.352 Managing Innovation: Emerging Trends
• 15.391 Early Stage Capital
• 15.394 Designing and Leading the Entrepreneurial Organization
• 15.615/15.647 Law for the Entrepreneur and Manager
• 15.431 Entrepreneurial Finance
• 15.835 Entrepreneurial Marketing
• 15.821 Listening to the Customer
• 15.818 Pricing
• 15.975 The Nuts and Bolts of Business Plans
• 15.912 Technology Strategy
• 15.389 G-Lab: Global Entrepreneurship Lab

Grants in digital media

If you are planning to develop an application in Flash and make it available for some mobile devices (e.g. cellphones, Blackberry), you might try and apply for this grant sponsored by Adobe:
http://www.openscreenproject.org/developers/get_started.html

There is also C3 Ontario program for postsecondary graduates in digital media (DATA members, OCAD and UOIT students):
http://c3ontario.com/documents/StartaBusiness_Program_Guidelines.pdf