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== Overview== Coming soon Learn more: Your Video (Session 5) &nbsp;[[University of British Columbia|University of British Columbia]] Spring 2017 UIF Pitch:&nbsp;[https://youtu.be/5o6awqCfMko https://youtu.be/5o6awqCfMko] == Strategy #1: Multidisciplinary New Venture Design<br/>== ==  <span style="font-size:mediumsmall;">Promoting collaboration '''Multidisciplinary New Venture Design Workshop'''</span><div>To foster connections and team building between students in all faculties towards the creation of initiatives, productswith a purpose to create a commercialize product, a community initiative or non-profitsprofit organization.</spandiv><div><br/></div><div>Current entrepreneurship courses that are elective options for non-commerce faculties require students to chose to pursue them and put in a lot of work.</div><div>Our findings indicate that students are typically looking for lighter workloads and more fun in courses that they choose for their electives. With this in mind, we wish to create a new venture design workshop which will teach important skill such as design-centric thinking, leadership, brainstorming and business basics.</div><div><br/></div><div>The existing new venture design course is only open to commerce and engineering students. We would also like to see this open to students in all faculties.</div> == == Strategy #2: <br/> == '''<span style="font-size:small;">UB(Seeds) Capital Fundraising Event </span>''' <span style== "font-size:small;">There are many resources on campus provided by entreprenurship@UBC to enable new ventures to connect with mentorship and potential customers, however, access to capital is sparse as the requirements to access the UBC Seed Fund are stringent.</span> <span style="font-size:mediumsmall;">Providing Budding Entrepreneurs Through our proposed UB(Seeds) event we hope to provide budding entrepreneurs with Validation validation and Capital the capital needed to Start-Upstartup. The event's objective is to gather at least 200 entrepreneurial-minded students and faculty members in one room to either pitch and/or evaluate ideas presented by other members of the University of British Columbia community.</span>  == Spring 2017 Pitch Video Strategy #3 ==<iframe width= '''Make course evaluations more impactful.''' We've found that course evaluations are typically not mandatory for students to complete and are prone to response bias if students have "560extreme" height="315" src="[https://www, negative or positive, feedback.youtube Currently, the Sauder School of Business (Faculty of Commerce) has these evaluations as mandatory requirements for all students at the end of the term, with a mid-term optional evaluation that is completed in class with the assistance of a peer class liason.com/embed/5o6awqCfMko https://www Our goal is to bring the Sauder School method to all faculties in order to provide school administration with a better understanding of their instructors.youtubeWe also plan to work with applicable administrative and technical partners in order to aggregate this data for student use.com/embed/5o6awqCfMko]" frameborder =="0" allowfullscreenStrategy #4 ="" scrolling="no"> '''Connect Students from Day One''' Current Imagine Day (first day) proceedings require students to attend faculty-specific orientation and rallies. At the end of Imagine Day, each faculty is seated separately in the large Thunderbird Stadium without any inter-faculty interaction. We hope to see organized events that aim to connect students from many different faculties in order to provide and exciting and inclusive environment&lt;/iframe&gtnbsp;(values that UBC certainly strives for) from the student's very first day on campus. == Related Links ==  Campus Overview:&nbsp; [[University of British Columbia|University of British Columbia]] Spring 2017 UIF: &#x5B;&#x5B;Alex_Gillis [[Alex Gillis|Alex Gillis&#x5D;&#x5D; &#x5B;&#x5B;Kristine_Wong]] [[Kristine Wong|Kristine Wong&#x5D;&#x5D; &#x5B;&#x5B;]] [[Category:Student Priorities]][[Category:Student Priorities]][[Category:University_of_British_Columbia]][[Category:Student_Priorities]]{{CatTree|Student_Priorities&#x5D;&#x5D;University_of_British_Columbia}}