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<div>To foster connections and team building between students in all faculties with a purpose to create a commercialize product, a community initiative or non-profit organization.</div><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: UB(Seeds) Capital Fundraising Event <br/> ==
== <span style="font-size:mediumsmall;">Providing Budding Entrepreneurs 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 Validation mentorship and Capital potential customers, however, access to capital is sparse as the requirements to Startaccess the UBC Seed Fund are stringent.</span> <span style="font-Upsize:small;">Through our proposed UB(Seeds) event we hope to provide budding entrepreneurs with validation and the capital needed to startup. 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>
== Strategy #3 ==